Pickleball Bob -- My Inspirational 81 Year Old Husband's Story

 Very cute! And, as always, 'grate' education too! 

Bringing things around to a more serious matter, believe it or not we have a pickle at Lumigrate! Yes, a pickle that was 'sick on the inside' and photographed by someone studying from a group on Facebook about what's causing 'this stuff we all have' anymore. Everyone has some sort of unwellness or another, and everyone means things other than humans.  When I went to the zoo with Bob and Petie, he impressed upon me how frogs and toads were a major source of concern around the world related to habitat and environment.  The pickles are sick too, and a lay researcher named Steve has connected some dots.  I added onto a thread by another laywriter from the old days, Alice who is a.k.a. Amazing Alice , as her topic from 2009 about starting seeds on coffee filters was the only thing I had so far on Lumigrate about gardening.  Steve had commented about what he thought the pickle had in it AND what is needed and ASAP for soils to keep them or make them healthy so these 'interlopers' cannot get the upper hand so much. 

Here's the link.  Please take the time to go, this is cutting edge but I wouldn't be so amped up about it if I didn't strongly suspect it is the real deal, the root cause, THE information that is core about what's causing unwellness and Steve didn't stop at the problem, he came up with a solution. And it's a simple protocol compared to what many protocols are about. It also is as affordable as can be, unfortunately it takes a little bit of money for an ozonator or to get water that's distilled or reverse osmosis, plus there are two products to purchase. One being an OTC veterinary medicine and another is a medicinal mushroom. Problems can seem bigger when the solutions are not provided.  So we offer both.  Here's the link to the topic about the pickle and from there you can decid if you want to go on to continue learning more we have here.  Naturally, the Search bar can assist you but I often provide links as well. www.lumigrate.com/forum/gardening-starting-seeds-coffee-filters#comment-2878

Live and Learn. Learn and live better! ~ Mardy

I had the pleasure of seeing Petie and Bob this summer.  An emergency came up with her son, who she's written about in topics on Lumigrate -- middle aged now with lifelong special needs which, in my opinion, fall under the umbrella of "environmental illness".   Defined by the mainstream "system" and treated and supported by the system in terms of "developmental disability", he goes through the ups and downs of the dance with what his body and the systems surrounding it and assisting him create.  So, I unfortunately didn't get any photographs of us together and wrapped up my visit earlier than planned and was 'on the road'. 

Bob was in a leadership position with his pickleball organization, being the email coordinator or something along those lines, for what is now a very large Pickleball organization.  Petie called me the other day to give me the update -- he'd had some medical issues -- significant ones -- and through the wonders of modern medicine and transportation, in the air and on the ground, plus Petie making a good 'call' on over-riding his wishes related to calling for EMTs, he was recovered in time to make the Honor Flight trip to Washington, DC !   And he had a great time, as did Petie with the event upon the return of the Honor Flight group. 

I'd happened to talk with her on Veteran's Day, and he'd returned that day to playing Pickleball, too.  He's been doing rehabilitation activities and exercises and had felt it was time. She was concerned, he did fine.  I asked if she has to be nice to him now, joking around about how the only time to reach her is when she's about to cook dinner and then he'll be sitting there getting hungrier.  They're definitely a couple who has learned to work with each other's strengths and weaknesses.  I've been so blessed to get to know them. He's now 82, and she just turned 80.  I forgot her birthday, which I'd made such a mental note about in July I thought I did not have to write it down. At least it makes her laugh that I, 25 years younger than she, almost, forgot.  

On another topic from when Petie had the time and desire to write topics on Lumigrate, she told us about growing up with Robert Redford. He and Jane Fonda are shooting a movie that will be a Netflicks movie, apparently, and through the people they've stayed in touch with from her and his families, they were connected to go talk to him on the set one day. And it happened to be the week of her 75th birthday!  

We talked about how he looked, of course! And she said that his hair was it's natural color -- Petie is now with lovely white hair.  I told her what I knew about sulphur deficiency being the cause, and supplementation or diet boosting of sulfur being the 'cure', without going into all the information about what causes the sulphur deficiencies (which has to do with the environmental and chemicals which are being proven more and more every day to NOT be working to our advantage, whether human, other animals, plants, water, etc. 

I had to 'make it up to her' about her birthday, so I'm going to work on a topic 'in her honor' about that.  And email her the link.  I hope she likes it!  And I hope you, reading, have enjoyed and benefitted from this update about Bob and Petie.