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High Blood Pressure!

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“Hi everybody!

I am a new host family in the Bettina Network and this is my first blog.  I didn’t think anything would happen to make me want to write a blog.  I am a quiet, unassuming person and generally go about the business serving rather than joining in the conversation.

 

That has all changed now!

 

We had a guest who caused quite a lively conversation at breakfast and when everyone was served I couldn’t resist joining them.

 

She had high blood pressure and her medicine was out.  She was away from home and didn’t know how to get a refill.  So the table did every thing they could to help.  She was quite reticent about calling her doctor or her local pharmacist.  She didn’t want to bother them.  That is what made me join the table.  Someone as quiet and unassuming as I am, so I got a chance to see myself through someone else.  I am going to love this bed & breakfast business.

 

We tried to do what we could to help.  I was worried she would get sick in my home and then what – but that didn’t happen.

 

Everyone around the table had some remedy they put forth to help her bridge the gap until she returned home.  What a conversation.

 

The best suggestion came from a neighbor who came over to join us for breakfast.  He said he used Milk Thistle Seed about twice a year for about 30 days each time.  He took two Milk Thistle Seed capsules after dinner in the evenings and it made him “pee like a fire hose”.  Well, that broke the ice and when I stopped turning red, it was quite a time.

 

The next best suggestion was organic parsley.  So I put parsley on everything at breakfast – the scrambled eggs; I mashed parsley against a cup to bruise the leaves and filled the cup with water so she could have parsley tea.  She got the idea and went into the kitchen several times over the next few days and made parsley tea on her own.

 

Someone else suggested that old stand-by that I’ve always heard about – garlic.  Except in the Bettina Network it would have to be organic garlic – I learn fast.

 

I didn’t know what to do about that.  One can’t put garlic in scrambled eggs – or freshly baked bread – or muffins – or cinnamon buns – so I made the cheese spread that has been going around the Bettina Network as a great snack to give people when they arrive.  I believe it came from a golf club in Georgia with changes made by several of us.  I made it with three whole garlic bulbs.  The cheese in the spread, no doubt, counteracted any affect the garlic would have had, but it was enjoyed by all.”

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