This is reason 118 why I don't go to church anymore. I had this one couple who had a son w/ severe disabilities who were all the time giving me 'cures'. One time he gave me a book that basically said if people drank more water they'd be cured His wife was pressing me to go to this 'healing farm'. When I resisted she stated and I quote "You've made a friend of your disease." I started avoiding them like the plague.

I stopped going to that church. Found out the pastor was beating his wife!

But I ran into them at a friend's funeral a couple months ago. The guy asked me how I was doing and I told him I was healed! I said, "Yep! It's a miracle!"

Don't know if he was smart enough to grasp the sarcasm or not.

I was once told by my then bible thumping brother that if Jim allowed his "people" to lay hands on him he would be cured of ms. Yep, he sure did and I countered with "If they are that good can't they do it from a distance?" lol

+1

That's my thought exactly!

I still have several good christian friends. They are sensible good people. It's the nuts you have to watch out for.

The worse part is he has been told they suspect he has ms. Now he has heart trouble too.

I had to hold back and tell him to have hands layed upon him.

In his defense, he stopped bible thumping a while back. He was a newbie Christian at that time with so much to learn. lol

I'm laughing about all the references to aspartame and diet soda/gum. I can't count the number of times I've received those infamous aspartame warning emails (Mom means well sending them).

I barely ate any sweets before my MS diagnosis. I also disliked diet sodas, so I drank the real stuff. I hardly ever chewed gum either.

I actually began chewing gum since my diagnosis when I found out that it can relieve BMS (burning mouth syndrome). It works wonders for it! Finding gum that isn't sugar free is like looking for a needle in a haystack it seems. It's rows upon rows of sugar free gum. Apparently it's not so 'poisonous' that it's been pulled from the shelves yet.

It's been over a year now, in any case, without any soda of any type. I don't miss it one bit, and I don't miss those pounds I lost cutting it out. Now it's black coffee, water and fruit juices

I hear you here!! and now, when I'm asked (been down the road about 'unconfessed' sin, and that we should all be healed) ... my new answer is that "I'm now healed .. in my heart ... God needed me to slow down to hear Him with this illness" ... people are amazed!

I tell them that this is only a shell, a vessel for His service - and I'm serving Him more by HAVING a disease!

i wonder how people got MS BEFORE the introduction of artificial sweeteners.