One lucky day, a few weeks ago as my mother in law was clearing the garden, she saw that our neighbor’s atsuete tree had grown over to our side and had lots of ripe atsuete fruit. Suddenly we had lots of organic atsuete in our hands. What to do with all the atsuete it? [Read more…]
Archives for 2009
Bugoy’s tailbone pain, his wallet and his upcoming marriage
January 5, 2009 By 1 Comment
I saw my brother during this Christmas vacation. Happy to see him I gifted him with a copy of Dr. Henry Bieler’s book Food is your Best Medicine. Also gifted him with a DVD of Food Matters. Bugoy was jolly fat, as fat as I once was in 2001. He doesn’t notice, just like most fat people don’t notice. Someone from the outside must tell you and tell you point blank. He is happy with the progress of his psoriasis, but I was not. I told him I expected him to be totally clean by the end of 2008. He still had some old barnacles, some scratching, and he still used some lotion. Tsk tsk tsk…. [Read more…]
My sandfly bites are now mere scabs
January 5, 2009 By 1 Comment
In 1994 I was bitten by sandflies in the beaches of Boracay island. I suffered for 2 years of what I recall as leishmaniasis. The dermatologists were of no help then, they injected me with steroids until I got exasperated at the pain. Then I was given topical steroids until it stopped working. Then I decided then to do nothing and after 1996 my body god rid of whatever it was. [Read more…]
