Frank, I x-posted with you. I hope your mom's doctors can work out what's going on. Have they run, or will they run, any blood tests to see if she has gluten or lactose issues?
If she's willing to change her diet, she doesn't even need to have tests -- she just needs to cut out gluten and/or lactose for a week or 2, and if one (or both) is the culprit, it's pretty obvious.
But it's got to be really hard to change how you eat when you're 89. It's not fun at any age, but really, 89 is lifetime of eating one way, and it would be really jarring to suddenly make a massive change.
Fingers crossed for her, definitely.
Vortex:
It will be a huge change, but worth it, I think.
Whoah. No kidding. It sounds scary and awesome.
The thing that gets me is that this went all the way into the '80s! the 1980s! You'd think this kind of thing would be in the 1880s or during WWII, but no.
Yeah. I hear "Catholic Church" and "kidnapping," and I think Edgardo Montara.
Congrats, Vortex! Sounds like a GOOD change for you!
espousing things like -- his (Tim's Dad) salvation is contingent on getting his children to come back to the church
Seriously? That's ... not very Catholic, to me. No church I've ever attended had that kind of attitude. But then if it did, I wouldn't have been going there.
I wonder if we are getting an intersection of the old-line Catholicism and the new evangelical mega-churches. Certainly the conservatism of the Church hierarchy aligns better with the evangelicals than it does with the old blue-collar unionized/progressive base it used to rely on.
Nobody's talking about liberation theology anymore, that's for sure.
cold tea:
Vortex, congratulations! I hope you find it challenging and rewarding.
Vortex, that is wonderful news! I am abstractly fond of Harford Insurance because they took good care of my MiL after Katrina (when not all insurance companies were so inclined), so I'm hopeful it will be a good place to work.
Congrats, Vortex! That's very exciting!
espousing things like -- his (Tim's Dad) salvation is contingent on getting his children to come back to the church
Seriously? That's ... not very Catholic, to me. No church I've ever attended had that kind of attitude. But then if it did, I wouldn't have been going there.
Yeah, I was literally speechless when he said that. I have never heard of such a thing. His parish is a little weird.
Nobody's talking about liberation theology anymore, that's for sure.
And that (liberation theology) was something I loved about Catholicism. Don't know where it went.
