No one seems to be posting here since Facebook got rolling but I wanted to add some important information for all the Laverty's who are interested in our family history.  www.familyhistoryireland.com has an article written by Darren McGettigan entitled, "The O'Laverty family of West County Tyrone".  I will quote part of it, "Another prominent west Tyrone family who also disappeared from the Gaelic records at this time were the O'Lavertys (O Laithbheartaigh).  The  O'Laverty's had a very distinguished ancestry being descended from Aed Allan, a king of Tyrone and High-King of Ireland who died in the year 743 AD......"  The article is one you should read, print out and keep for your posterity.  It is priceless in my view. 

Fibromyalgia

Well, I've been so ill I can barely make it off of the couch most days. I've known I have fibro for ten years now. Past research efforts have resulted in the same old thing: Take an antidepressant, exercise if you can and rest. To me that meant, sit on the couch and die slowly. Well, after a lot of prayer, I got busy researching again. This time I found the work of Dr. Amand, out of CA. He is a real doctor and a real researcher - not an in it for the money guy. He is 78 yrs old and has fibro himself. Anyway, if you want to know what fibro REALLY is go to his website: fibromyalgiatreatment.com
I downloaded his book to my nook and I was shocked. Every other page and I was saying to Barry, "I didn't know that was part of my fibro!" You know all those surgeries I had? I understand what happened to my body now. Rick, I think you have fibro too. I hope not, but I think you do. Just read the first couple of pages of the book and you'll know, trust me. I fibro fogging right now (that's when you sudddenly can't think straight, or have what I always called a "brain blip" before - you know you suddenly don't know where you are for a minute when you are driving your car or you look at a chair and the only word that comes out of your mouth is table, all sorts of things like that.
In a very short list here are a few of the symptoms:
Growing pains as a child (there really are no such thing!)
Feeling like you are out of the loop at school, even though you really are intelligent
Stiffness in the muscles and/or joints
Muscle weakness
Extreme fatigue
Restless leg syndrome
Irritable bowel - THE FAMILY CURSE!!!!
Skin or muscles sensitive to the touch - sometimes this is severe - a candy wrapper hit my leg the other day and I thought a hammer hat hit it - no kidding - this was a first and hopefully a last for me
Dry eyes or gunky eyes
Some forms of sexual dysfunction
hypoglycemia (about 50% of fibr0myalgiacs)

Okay, you get the idea. I real good sign is having a million medical tests done and they all come back normal (Sandy, take note here)

PLEASE take this seriously. Mom's life could have been so much better and she could have been saved.

Fibromyalgia does not affect the organs. Mom lived for ten days with no food or water. You can't imagine how this has affected me.

I want all of you to think about yourselves and your kids. There is no need to suffer with this disease. GOOD NEWS!!!!!! Finally! I've started following Dr. Amands protocol and I know that it is already working. You have to read his book What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Fibromyalgia Fatigue 2006. It is necessary to take guaifesin and block all salicylates from your diet and hygiene products. Do read the book so that you can understand what I'm talking about and exactly how to do it. His website has a map with a listing of Drs in every state that follow his protocol. I don't remember if I listed the website: www.fibromyalgiatreatment.com

This guy is for real - he doesn't make money from his book. guaif is the ingredient in Mucinex.
My Dr put me on guaif years ago but he didn't know about blocking the salicylates. The sal keeps the guaif from working - like when grapefruit blocks certain blood pressure meds.

Fibromyalgia cycles until finally it takes over unless you stop it. Your body doesn't get rid of posphates properly and that's what causes the problems.

I guess what really pushed me to doing some SERIOUS research is that I am developing glaucoma - and I don't want to go blind. I didn't know that that was also part of fibro ie eye problems. Now that I have started the guaif protocol, I feel like I'm going to be fine.


Sorry I've been so long winded. I hope this makes sense to you.
I love you all very much and I don't want you or my nieces and nephews to suffer through this.
Please, please read this book before you see your Dr. I also read Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum's book and he has 100 SERIOUSLY 100 tests you should take. It's a waste of time and money. They will all come back normal.

Cymbalta does ease the pain for a little while but it doesn't treat the underlying problem. I had to get off the Cymbalta because I was more depressed than I had ever been in my life and I wasn't sure how much more I could take. Cymbalta is dangerous - DON'T take it!

I love you all! Deb

Happy Birthday Jim WL

Wishing you a Happy Birthday with many Heavenly blessings poured out over you.

I hope you enjoy this day and everyday throughout the year!
I'm sure Pam will have something good planned for you - enjoy!

Jimmy

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Wishing all a Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving Day!!

I have not been on in a while as I thought no one was posting. I had always gotten the blog posts directly into Outlook like an e-mail, but nothing has appeared since May I believe. And don't ask why I never went to teh site, I guess I have just been busy. Finally I did and I saw all the posts for teh last months...

So, I am back and will be posting some stuff on here soon.

My parents, Tony and I are going to Fountain's of Loveland, in Loveland Colorado for a Thanksgiving Buffet. It is nice since it is just the four of us to do something differnt than cook at home. We will stay at a nice hotel in Fort Collins for two nights - the Cambria Suites.

I am thankful for family, no matter how crazy and how distant, I still love you all. My greatest desire is that you know Christ Jesus as your personal Savior and it is to Him that I am most thankful of all!!

Be blessed and thankful in & for all things this Thanksgiving Weekend! Jimmy

Shaun's Thanksgiving

Hi guys...

If you have a minute...click on the link above and you can go view the pics from Shaun's Thanksgiving day in his classroom.

Their class is doing 'inquiry learning' and this term the topic is "foreign cultures"...soo I was invited to come tell them about Thanksgiving.

I spent the WHOLE day there with 28 6 to 7 year olds. Was EXHAUSTED! lol But was a great day...we made turkeys and had a real-live Thanksgiving dinner.

The pics are about 1/2 way down the page on the link..there's some other great pics too. Shaun's teacher is AMAZING! I dont think she makes any money at all....as I KNOW she puts tons of it right back into the children.

I adore her...I think I'll cry when Shaun moves up (finger's crossed Zoe gets her next year!)

Enjoy the pics...

Love to all,
Sandy

A beautiful Eastern Shore night when the schooners visited












The morning the schooner prepare to Sail

Thanksgiving

Hi everyone!

With Thanksgiving fast approaching, I've been feeling a little homesick! I've been invited to Shaun's class next friday to teach the kids about Thankgiving---a foreign holiday over here.

We're going to make some turkeys and pilgrim hats and teach the kids about being thankful. Also going to have a thanksgiving dinner...complete with chicken instead of turkey (a 5kg turkey over---roughly 11 lbs---will set you back about $60)....

Anyway..feeling homesick, since i've been thinking about Thanksgiving so much, I decided I was going to find the Macy's Parade and watch it online this year--to share my favourite thanksgiving tradition with the family. I searched for ages for a link to a website that broadcasts the parade to no avail. Not to be outdone, I emailed Macy's directly.

Now, I have to say I'm amazed at the speed of their reply! Sadly, the reply was that NBC owns the rights to the coverage of the parade, and does not broadcast it over the web. They suggested that I have someone record it on a DVDR or similar and burn it to a DVD and send it to me.....SOOOO is there any of you that could do that for me? Pretty Please? You'll be my favourite! lol Or do you know someone who could do it??

I know it's a pain...but would mean a lot to me!!

Thanks!

Love,
Sandy

PS...I'll post pics of Shaun's class thanksgiving after the event!!