A Regimen for Remission
This log tracks my regimen of attitude, exercise, stress management, and SCD foods. Since I started this regimen in 1997, I've been able to keep my Crohn's in a drug-free remission.

Monkey-see,
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Even though I may have experimented beyond the SCD from time to time, one must remember that everyone is different. Follow the intro diet for 3-5 days, and stick with the SCD until you are completely symptom free for at least one year before experimenting.

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Dinner: TJ's eggplant bisque, steamed broccoli, leftover turkey burgers, tossed salad.
mhs@18:29

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mhs@15:33

A recent post to the SCD listserve and the Healing Crow Intestinal Health group excerpt reads, "Yesterday somebody on the German scd-list made an interesting remark:
Perhaps striking back is like fighting bad bacteria with prednisone. We have to "starve" the reasons for war and terrorism."
mhs@15:27

Regarding the Trade Center / terrorist activities of last week, I can only hope that the world leadership will find a way to control terrorism without resorting to retaliatory bloodshed, hatred, and violence. After all, I assume last week's actions were motivated by something (real or perceived) which we had done to them in the past. Tit for tat, on a very major scale. I really do not think it does any good to vow to "smoke them out of their holes" when we don't understand why this happened in the first place. Killing simply begets more killing. A lot more dialog please, a lot more understanding, a lot more forgiveness, please, folks!

I hate the use of blanket statements, but let me propose this one as a possible exception: hatemongers are scum.
mhs@15:00

Lunch: tossed salad, grilled chicken burgers, avocado.
mhs@14:54

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mhs@08:38

So much for sleeping, I've been up for an hour reading through my Inbox (haven't even made it to my SCD messages yet!). Breakfast: fruit, cheese, nuts, raisins before our Saturday morning yoga class.

Dinner, yesterday: tossed salad, leftovers.

Lunch: chicken taco with lots of lettuce (from Tostadez).
mhs@07:24

Friday, September 14, 2001

Breakfast: fruit. Very... tired... I feel like sleeping all weekend...
mhs@06:15

Thursday, September 13, 2001

Dinner: tossed salad with a mustard vinaigrette, leftover grilled salmon and cornish hens, steamed squash, and steamed broccoli.
mhs@20:05

Lunch: leftover salad and salmon; cheese, banana.
mhs@13:43

Breakfast: fruit.

Yesterday... Dinner: steamed artichokes and butter; tossed salad with a mustard vinaigrette; grilled wild salmon with a choice of black bean sauce or a walnut-cilantro pesto; grilled cornish hens. A small feast to celebrate Laura's birthday!
Lunch: a not-very SCD legal burrito (satisfying, but with gaseous repurcussions later in the evening).
mhs@06:10

Wednesday, September 12, 2001

Breakfast: fruit, nuts.

Yesterday's bad dream hasn't left me, but an hour's worth of yoga class last night did a decent job freeing my mind for an hour.

Blogger has some links to online disaster relief donations via Amazon and Paypal.
mhs@05:48

Tuesday, September 11, 2001

I am still completely stunned. I really feel like writing about this.

I worked on One World Trade Center, 104th Floor, for 9 months.
I worked on Two WTC, 23rd Floor, for 2.5 years, maybe more.
I walked beneath both every day for a total 7 years....
I still have friends in the WTC, but more in the WFC (which appears to be OK).
I had many, many customers in the WTC.
My cousin's husband in 7 WTC just checked in..thank God he is fine.
I was there for the bombing in the early 90's.
I was there for the Tribeca Blackout in July or Aug of 1992 or so...when people had to walk down from wherever they were because the elevators wouldn't go back up once they got to the ground floor.

Laura and I listened to NPR all the way to work this morning. It was just amazing. When they said the WTC "collapsed" I just couldn't imagine it...110 floors of stuff...gone??? Imagine 110 floors of desks, papers, pens, computers, faxes, copiers, cubicles, artwork, etc., etc., etc....and all of the people who didn't make it out in time.

The whole country is stunned. Lots of people are running around or in the chat rooms shouting blanket-statement racial epithets, "kill them all", etc. Sickos.

My company closed its offices today at 8:20, we all went home. All the better; I was uneasy being in Tucson's tallest building (23 floors) after all I had just heard on the news. We had a typical solid-blue sky today...but there were no airplanes to be seen. Amazing. Weird.

I forget the guy's name, but NPR was interviewing the American who got the Nobel for poetry or something. He was talking about poetry that is written at a time like this. He also spoke about the "poetry" of the new Manhattan skyline. It made me wonder: will they rebuild the twin towers? what does it say if they don't? will they build a park where those buildings once stood, as a memorial? Someone else pointed out how "fragile and alone" the Empire State looks without the twin towers to support its strength.

I really feel like writing about this. I think I should put it in my web log, except that it is somehow sick to be writing about this. Writing about a place I spent almost 10 years of my life working, making friends, helping customers, eating, and even where I went to relax on weekends, etc. I feel like writing about the many thousands of people that came up from the subways and the Path Train in the AM, and how one had to cross their "flow" like one might kayak across a fast-flowing river, by aiming oneself "upstream" of one's actual intended destination because the unrelenting human flow just pulled one along with it. I remember the smell of sulphur that the trains from Hoboken brought with them (along with all the passengers). I remember my daily commute with 40,000+ other people working in those 7 buildings, that most of us got there between 8AM and 9AM, and left around 5PM. Peak commuting time was just amazing. And the whole scenario about how to get to the 104th floor of One WTC one took an express elevator to the 86th floor, transfered to another express, which then stopped at floors 100 and higher. The first elevator was very fast and one could really feel it in the stomach if one had eaten a big meal! I remember that there used to be a farmer's market with organics on the open plaza between the WTC and the Millennium Hotel on Wednesday mornings...I remember learning about the amazing architectural design they used to make such tall buildings without sacrificing floor space (basically, the vertical lines formed an exoskeleton). I remember how the water in the toilets on 104 moved just a little, ever so slightly, on really really windy days. It was eerie to learn that the buildings could "sway" a few feet in any direction.

Anyway, that is what I am thinking about. Not to mention what the future brings as a result of this catastrophe. Maybe I'll blog it all after all.
mhs@17:16

I am stunned. I worked there (NYC) for 9 years.

I pray for my friends and their friends, and everyone who was anywhere near the locations of today's tragic events.
mhs@10:45

Breakfast: an apple, a banana, a carrot-walnut muffin. And someone just flew a plane into my old workplace (the World Trade Center).
mhs@06:18

Monday, September 10, 2001

Dinner: steamed summer squash, leftover peacock kale and chicken sausages.
mhs@19:47

Lunch: leftover grilled sausages, spinach, and broccoli; tossed salad.
mhs@13:52

Breakfast: fruit and a carrot-walnut muffin.
mhs@06:01

Sunday, September 09, 2001

Dinner: grilled chicken sausages from Wild Oats, steamed organic spinach, steamed organic broccoli.

This IBS article just showed up in my Inbox. It points out some interesting research on elimination diets which supports the use of the SCD for IBS.
mhs@19:44

Lunch: tossed salad with a mustard vinaigrette dressing, leftover chicken.
mhs@14:35

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, an apple, and a carrot-walnut muffin.

Dinner, yesterday: delicious leftovers from the previous night, cantaloupe for dessert.
mhs@07:20

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