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July 15, 2002
Dear Readers,
Occasionally, this old gal needs
help. (Actually, I need help every
day with all kinds of things, since I’ve lived almost an entire century, but I
need a different kind of help from you this time.)
Very seldom does a question come my way that I don’t have an instant
opinion on. That’s why they’ve
hired me to write this column, for goodness sake!
My dear Harry (who lived with me
in wedded bliss for 52 ½ years) only heard me say, “I don’t believe I have
an opinion on that” one time! Unfortunately,
it was during a company dinner, and he was about to eat a nice spoonful of
strawberry Jell-O with sliced bananas. He
was so shocked by what I said that the Jell-O, halfway to his open mouth, fell
off his spoon into his lap. Once we
cleaned up the sticky red mess, he wanted to make sure I wasn’t feeling ill.
He knew I always had an opinion on everything
- and a bunch of words to back it up.
So this would be Harry’s
second time to drop the Jell-O - if he was still around to hear me say the
words, “I don’t believe I have an opinion on that.”
I received the following letter
in response to a recent column regarding faith healing.
I’d like for you, my lovely readers, to take a turn at being Gabby this
time! You’ll have the advantage,
though, because you won’t have to develop arthritic knees or age spots or deep
wrinkles on your face in order to do it! You
can just sit there at your computer in your prime of your youth and answer Mr.
Hawaii
. I’ll even let you sign off with
my “Sincerely Sincere” if you’d like.
Can you do it?
Try, okay? And send it to gabby@ninetyandnine.com
by
July 23, 2002
. I get to choose the best, most
Gabby-wise responses for a future column. It’ll
be fun - and maybe I’ll learn something along the way!
Ready?
Here’s your letter to answer:
Dear Gabby,
I have a question about your reply to "Healed
in Houston."
There are some illnesses that would require her to stop taking her
medication before she could tell if there was any difference.
Thyroid disease is an example of one of them.
With that disease, the thyroid gland does not produce the thyroid
hormone like it should. With replacement thyroid medicine, the body functions
normally. The only way to tell if
the thyroid is healed is to either wait for symptoms of an over-active thyroid
or go off the medication and look for signs of an underactive thyroid.
If a person were to stop taking the thyroid medicine without being
healed, (s)he could become very seriously ill.
No test exists that can indicate if the thyroid is now healthy unless
the person goes off the medication, because the tests indicate the level of
thyroid hormone in the blood, which is being adequately replaced by the
medication. That is just one such disease I know about.
So, back to the person's question - do such people go off the medication
or not?
Sincerely,
How Do You Know You’re Healed in Hawaii?
So, dear readers, what do you
think? I’m anxious to hear your
opinion this time.
Sincerely Sincere,
Gabby
ninetyandnine.com
©
2002, ninetyandnine.com
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Gabrigail
VanBurden has been offering advice for longer than most of you have been
alive. Email your practical Apostolic life questions to Gabby@ninetyandnine.com
and be prepared for some straight answers!
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