Lori Alexander 45: Sensoring and Sensibility

[Curious]

So here is her Dr. Marshall: https://qnlabs.com/about-us/about-dr-bob-marshall.html

He got his Ph.D. from Columbia Pacific University, which was ordered to be shut down in 2000 because it was a diploma mill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pacific_University

There are other sites, but the wiki has everything in one place.

Holy Woo, Batman: http://www.quantumreflexanalysis.com/

http://www.womenofgrace.com/blog/?p=23750

Of course, Lori loves this guy and his miracle cures: http://www.quantumreflexanalysis.info/

ok I'm done.  I have better stuff to do today than prove that Lori believes in quackery

 

[Curious]

So I lied a bit.  I went to always learning to make sure I had what Lori said right and that led me to this post: http://lorialexander.blogspot.com/2015/01/healing-ibs-caused-by-fructose.html

She tells basically the same story as the one @ViolaSebastian posted, but she has this bit in the one I linked:

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Shortly afterwards, I had a horrible night of no sleep, pain and diarrhea. Ken took me to a family practice doctor around the corner from my home. He asked me if I'd ever been told to have a stool test. I told him no. He gave me a kit and I went home. I thought, "I'm not going to take a stool test. What would that accomplish?" However, that night, I was very ill again so I took the test. It came back that I was FULL of parasites.

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So we are expected that a family practice dr had stool tests on hand at his home?

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My Dad is a pathologists. I had ten parasites per oil field. Most people only have two to three. My Dad called well-known Infectious Disease Specialists around the nation for my treatment and they all told him they had never heard of someone having so many!

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In this version her dad calls a bunch of top ID drs for treatment.  In the other version, the dr that dx her told her dad about her amazing parasite load (no multiple drs saying it was the biggest parasite load in the history of ever).

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I was put on strong drugs for several years. The parasites were very difficult to get rid of. We have no idea how I got them since I never did travel to foreign countries. I have heard that many people in America have parasites. It is not that abnormal. All of these strong drugs just made my gut worse. Therefore, my gut has been bad since I was 30 years old. Going through two brain surgeries and a neck fusion didn't help.

 

No mention of several years in the previous link.  No mention of chemotherapy like drugs in this one.  We also now know that she hasn't really had 2 brain surgeries, but non-invasive radiation via cyberknife.

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My diet is very simple and I will tell you exactly what I eat for those of you who have struggled with IBS or gut problems for many years and can't get well. Right when I wake up, I take colostrum and probiotic. Then I fix a cup or two of my homemade chicken broth with sea salt. For breakfast, I cook chopped up butternut squash in Ghee. Then I eat two pastured eggs on top of it with Real Salt. For lunch, I have a large yam with Kerrygold butter on it and some organic roasted chicken. For dinner, it's steamed swiss chard, zucchini and some fish. For my snacks, I munch on a half of a cup of properly prepared organic cashews throughout the day. {I need extra calories!} I use fresh parsley, lemon and cilantro to season my food.

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Well, that's a change.  Even though she was still not really eating much it was more substantial and she says she needs extra calories.  

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It's kind of like an added freedom to my life to not spend much time thinking about food and living for food since my food is not that exciting!

hello disordered thinking about food.

This disclaimer made me giggle.  This must have been around the time Ken was here and we were telling him how dangerous Lori's advice was.

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***Remember, I'm NOT a doctor. I'm just a homemaker who loves to research 
natural cures and have found many that have worked for my family and me. Information I have given is for educational and informational purposes only and to motivate you to make your own health care and dietary decisions based upon your own research and in partnership with your health care provider. Any statements or claims about the possible health benefits conferred by any foods or supplements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Nothing you read here should be relied upon to determine dietary changes, a medical diagnosis or course of treatment.

I just checked.  It was about a year after Ken was here, but  here, but I bet if I looked we talked about the post

[Curious]

HALP!! Someone stop me!

http://lorialexander.blogspot.com/2011/12/twenty-years-of-pain.html

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At 18 years old, I  ran as fast as I could into a plate glass window.  It was cold outside and I didn't know the sliding glass door had been closed. 

 

This one is offered with no commentary because I don't have any words.

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One night I was very sick so I went to a doctor near my home.  He asked if I'd ever had a stool test.  I hadn't so I took one and they found that I was LOADED with parasites.  That began a five year journey on trying many drugs and then enzymes and vitamins to get rid of them.

 

This timeline is very wiggly it seems like.  This is also the oldest of the 3 posts so, in theory, is canon

Speaking of wiggly, there is the site she discovered with the miracle icing cure: https://www.tendonitisexpert.com/treatment-for-whiplash.html

ok I'm really done.  I'm closing FJ and doing a coloring lesson!

[Carol]

I know I sound uncaring but this is true for me.  I was reading Lori's blog today about a boy who is suffering from cancer and all I get out of reading his story is how this boy's father clearly values his sons more than his daughters.  And how dumb he thinks his wife is.  

I suspect this has a lot to do with having read Beth Moore's column on how women in fundamentalist religions are to be seen and not heard by the men in their congregation.

Blech.

[OhNoNike]

I haven’t studied her that much, but wow she sounds like she has a/some mental illnesses. She says she’s had all these illnesses and been proven a liar?

[Beermeet]

@Curious  Um.....

And maybe some pantsless coloring.

[Emilycharlotte]

So, I recently visited the FB page "Detox, Antivax, and Woo Insanity".  And it seems like a vague diagnosis of "parasites " is extremely common in those circles. I'm not sure any actual tests are required, it just seems like a go-to diagnosis for what ails you. And apparently it's chronic, because some people seem to be constantly  detoxing and trying flush them out.   

Knowing Lori's gullability and her penchant for woo, I'd guess that this is the case with most if not all of her parasite issues.

[Koala]

I can't help but wonder how much of her "sickness" is caused by:

1) Ingesting random shit from the interwebz

2) Not consuming enough calories to keep a cat alive

3) Being downright filthy

(see: She has an indoor cat, but invested in carpet that never needs to be vacuumed/Norwex cloth that never needs to be washed/rubbing food and grease on her hands as a "moisturizer"/apparent lack of hand washing) 

Weird side note- someone mentioned cloth diapers and wipes to her.  Her immediate response? 

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let me know so I can teach the women!

It really sets my teeth on edge when she says, "Women...." and now it's "teach the women".  Ughh. 

Lori, if you don't know about it, you probably shouldn't teach about it.

[Sarah92]

When she says "the women" it kinda sounds like idk she's setting herself apart from them? Like maybe she thinks she's ascended to a higher order of being. 

Also Facebook just updated for me at least and now shows me related pages. And this is what shows up on Lori's page hahaha. 

Also to further annoy Lori, when you look up her book by title on Amazon the following is what shows up after her book. When her fans are searching for her book they're certainly going to be exposed to some....interesting things. I wonder if Lori knows that she is exposing her fans to this kind of material lol. 

Spoiler

 

[Curious]

22 hours ago, fluffy said:

She has a chair that faces a wall and if the grandchildren complain they sit in the chair for ten minutes. 

This sounds like a ... time out.  I thought Lori didn't believe in time outs.  I suspect this means her children have made it clear she is not to use her beloved strap on the grandkids, which good for them.

Ten minutes seems a bit long for the ages her grandchildren are though.   On the rare occasions I had to use time outs with my kids, I did a minute per year.  So a 2 year old would sit for 2 minutes maximum.  YMMV, of course.

[feministxtian]

I did standing up against a wall. "nose to the wall". It usually worked well. Well, except for my oldest granddaughter. She was a whole 'nother case of hard-headed. There were reasons for her behavior, something about being pulled out of her mother's arms when her mother was arrested. She still has some issues dealing with that. She's been in therapy off and on for a long time. The little one, the minute you said "nose to the wall", she'd immediately fall apart and apologize. Little beastie (grandson) did sitting on a stool in the hallway. It got to the point where all I did was point at the stool and he'd straighten up. He's still a remarkably well-behaved kid, but has that remarkable talent to figure out how far he can go without getting into trouble. 

[usmcmom]

5 hours ago, Curious said:

This sounds like a ... time out.  I thought Lori didn't believe in time outs.  I suspect this means her children have made it clear she is not to use her beloved strap on the grandkids, which good for them.

Ten minutes seems a bit long for the ages her grandchildren are though.   On the rare occasions I had to use time outs with my kids, I did a minute per year.  So a 2 year old would sit for 2 minutes maximum.  YMMV, of course.

We did one minute per year, also. I think we started timeout at about age two and ended it by six or seven.  

When our son was five, I sent him to his room for some more serious infraction. When he got to his door, he looked back at me and said "This isn't fair and I AM going to call the FBI!"  Not sure now he was going to call anybody without a phone in there; but I had to leave the room to laugh. 

[Curious]

10 minutes ago, usmcmom said:

We did one minute per year, also. I think we started timeout at about age two and ended it by six or seven.  

When our son was five, I sent him to his room for some more serious infraction. When he got to his door, he looked back at me and said "This isn't fair and I AM going to call the FBI!"  Not sure now he was going to call anybody without a phone in there; but I had to leave the room to laugh. 

LOL kids really do say the best things, particularly when something is UNFAIR in their minds.  I wish I had written down more stuff like that, but I was a horrible baby book keeper upper.   I started the one for my first baby right away.   I think maybe while I was still pregnant.  With my second, I think he was 3 months old before I even remembered I had a baby book for him so then tried to go back and remember when he had done all the stuff I missed.  What a mess.   I don't think I managed to keep up either one for a full year  

[Evangeline]

3 hours ago, usmcmom said:

We did one minute per year, also. I think we started timeout at about age two and ended it by six or seven.  

When our son was five, I sent him to his room for some more serious infraction. When he got to his door, he looked back at me and said "This isn't fair and I AM going to call the FBI!"  Not sure now he was going to call anybody without a phone in there; but I had to leave the room to laugh. 

One of mine, probably age 3, looked me straight in the eye, channeled Donald Trump and said "MOM! YOU'RE FIRED!" 

To this day, I have no idea where the child got this. We never once watched DT's stupid show. This same child fast forwards through 45's cameo in Home Alone.

 

[feministxtian]

I never let my kids watch Home Alone. I was afraid they'd get ideas. 

[CelticGoddess]

9 hours ago, Evangeline said:

One of mine, probably age 3, looked me straight in the eye, channeled Donald Trump and said "MOM! YOU'RE FIRED!" 

To this day, I have no idea where the child got this. We never once watched DT's stupid show. This same child fast forwards through 45's cameo in Home Alone.

 

Has he ever watched SpongeBob?  My son (who is autistic) will go through stages where he'll watch SpongeBob videos and he'll come up to his da, sister or me and say "Momma, you're fired" (or insert correct name).  I'ts hysterical.  

[Frog99]

@Sarah92 that made me chuckle- especially in light of this comment (that hasn’t yet been erased!!!): 

[livinglongerthanyou]

On 5/4/2018 at 10:35 PM, feministxtian said:

I had a 145lb male Mal. He was GORGEOUS and dumb as a box of rocks! Couldn't take him out on a leash. He'd pull to the point where he'd cut off his own air no matter how much we tried to teach him to heel. He loved riding in the car though...imagine this enormous Mal sitting between the two front seats of my van...he'd sing too. Evidently the pitch in some songs made him want to howl. It's hard to drive when you're laughing hysterically. Stopped at a gas station with said enormous Mal in my van. Some guy walked up to my van and pretty much yelled "Holy shit, there's a fucking WOLF in that van"...thing is, he was a LOUSY watchdog. He was terrified of my 7lb cat too. We had a German Shepherd, a sled dog mix (keeshound/husky) and the Mal. Imagine, 7lb calico sitting in front of the water dish with all three dogs panting and waiting. Not a single one of them realized that with one well-placed paw, kitty wouldn't be much more than a wet spot on the floor. The Mal would look around for the cat before he went in any room in the house. If he saw the cat, he wasn't moving! I'd love another Mal, but deserts and sled dogs are not a good combination. 

I completely enjoyed reading this!! The Malamute is an often misunderstood breed for good and bad. Dogsledding around here almost always involves teams of the modern, 45 lb, compact, fast Alaskan Husky. The big brutes of yesteryear are rarely used for anything beyond freighting and trapping and so their contribution to the history of dogsledding is fading - a pet peeve of mine. 

The Malamute makes a great family dog and while incredibly loyal to their family, they also have a tendency to love all people which makes them a really crappy watch dog. 

And the strength is just as you wrote. I have a 2-year-old male whose legs are like tree trunks. He is a monster and yet one stern look from me sends him rolling over in submission. 

We lost two of our great males this winter to age. Sigh. It's hard to say farewell to a companion that has taken you on so many great adventures.

Look up Joe Henderson Malamutes on the internet or Facebook if you would like to see photos of some fine animals. He is a friend of ours and has great dogs!!

[Curious]

2 minutes ago, livinglongerthanyou said:

Dogsledding around here almost always involves teams of the modern, 45 lb, compact, fast Alaskan Husky.

I didn't know this.  Do teams require more dogs with a smaller dog like the Alaskan Husky?

[livinglongerthanyou]

5 minutes ago, Curious said:

I didn't know this.  Do teams require more dogs with a smaller dog like the Alaskan Husky?

Definitely. The Alaskan Husky is still a very strong dog - their power often surprises people. Their smaller size though means they are faster and in racing that speed is what counts. For example - the Alaskan Husky will cruise at 10 - 12 mph on a good trail in a race, where the Malamute team will plod along at half that speed. 

In more traditional activities like using the dogs on a trap line or for hauling wood or freight, it used to be a musher would only have 3-5 big dogs - Malamutes or what is called a village or Indian dog. People only kept the number of dogs they could afford to feed. There are still some people, like myself, who use dogs for traditional activities like this, but most will run slightly larger Alaskan Huskies in a team of 8 to 12 dogs. All I need is 3 or 4 Malamutes at the most. 

The advantage of having a Malamute on the trap line or hauling freight is that they are tough, long legged, deep chested creatures who can power through any crappy trail. Deep snow, on the other hand, can really tax a team of Alaskan Huskies. The modern Alaskan Husky also often needs to be bootied on the trail and to wear dog jackets while resting. A Malamute would rather be caught dead. 

Both breeds are wonderful animals to work with, but also vastly different.

[feministxtian]

25 minutes ago, livinglongerthanyou said:

The Malamute makes a great family dog and while incredibly loyal to their family, they also have a tendency to love all people which makes them a really crappy watch dog. 

And the strength is just as you wrote. I have a 2-year-old male whose legs are like tree trunks. He is a monster and yet one stern look from me sends him rolling over in submission. 

I'd LOVE to have another Mal...but the desert is not a good place for a dog who enjoys sub-zero temperatures. My Mal...oh gosh...if the dogs got into something, the Shepherd would just sorta look at me funny, the Mal would either roll over or hang his head in shame and the sled dog would yelp like you were killing him. 

And they do thoroughly suck as watchdogs. The Shepherd would bark and the Mal would look at her like "have you lost your damn mind? We might get more love!". He was my shadow. Our yard looked like the surface of the moon though...between the kids and the dog...we had to bury railroad ties under the fence to keep him from digging tunnels. 

I love big dogs...we had a 60lb lab/shepherd/rottie/pitbull mix...folks said he was "huge". To me he was a nice medium sized dog. But then again, when you have the Mal from hell, an 80lb Shepherd and a 60lb sled dog, your point of view is rather skewed, ya know?

 

[livinglongerthanyou]

31 minutes ago, feministxtian said:

I'd LOVE to have another Mal...but the desert is not a good place for a dog who enjoys sub-zero temperatures. My Mal...oh gosh...if the dogs got into something, the Shepherd would just sorta look at me funny, the Mal would either roll over or hang his head in shame and the sled dog would yelp like you were killing him. 

And they do thoroughly suck as watchdogs. The Shepherd would bark and the Mal would look at her like "have you lost your damn mind? We might get more love!". He was my shadow. Our yard looked like the surface of the moon though...between the kids and the dog...we had to bury railroad ties under the fence to keep him from digging tunnels. 

I love big dogs...we had a 60lb lab/shepherd/rottie/pitbull mix...folks said he was "huge". To me he was a nice medium sized dog. But then again, when you have the Mal from hell, an 80lb Shepherd and a 60lb sled dog, your point of view is rather skewed, ya know?

 

Ah yes, the moon craters. A few of ours are brutal diggers. Like I could hire them out for excavation work diggers. It becomes pretty dodgy in the spring when the ice covering those water filled holes thins!

[jerkit]

Lori’s post about birth control has me even more giddy about receiving my path report from surgery this morning. In case there was any question, the tissue removed were indeed Fallopian tubes! I have never been pregnant and I never will be!!!

[Briefly]

7 hours ago, livinglongerthanyou said:

Ah yes, the moon craters. A few of ours are brutal diggers. Like I could hire them out for excavation work diggers. It becomes pretty dodgy in the spring when the ice covering those water filled holes thins!

We have a beagle. She's older now but she still thinks she has to dig for whatever prey is there. Usually it's gophers or moles, and she has managed to get a few but not for a couple of years. We had a coyote/sheperd/? mix and he didn't dig much, he would let the beagle do the dirty work and then he would grab whatever came out of the hold and kill it.  Dogs are like perpetual two-year olds!

[AlwaysDiscerning]

This was left 5 mins ago and its gone. A simple, reasonable question that Lori can't answer despite declaring Churches celebrate bareness.