From: Integral World [f.visser3@chello.nl] Sent: vrijdag 19 januari 2007 15:54 To: f.visser3@chello.nl Subject: [personal] Wilber's Health INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 179 Amsterdam, January 19, 2007 WILBER WATCH BLOG: "2006: WHAT A YEAR!" http://wilberwatch.blogspot.com/ If you haven't already heard it, Wilber has recently suffered from seizures and was treated in the Denver hospital. In these two pieces he explains his condition in more detail: MEDITATE AND EAT YOUR VEGGIES - 2006 Dear Friends, At 8:30 PM on Tuesday, December 5, 2006, while Becca and I were watching a movie, I had a grand mal seizure that was quite severe. Although these are common with CFIDS/REDD/ME, it has only happened once to me before, as far as I can tell. A really major grand mal seizure can kill you. Although this one didn't do that, it came damn close, and was in any event severe enough to precipitate ten more equally severe seizures-one after another after another. By the time they got me to the ER and stabilized-about 12 hours later-not only had I suffered around a dozen grand mal seizures in a row, I had essentially flat-lined three times and had the electric paddles applied to my chest three times-overall, a pretty gruesome ordeal. Read more... http://www.integralworld.net/wilber_health.html RNASE ENZYME DEFICIENCY DISEASE - 2002 hi folks, several people have asked about my health, so let me give a brief rundown on the situation. the condition i have is called RNase Enzyme Deficiency Disease (i love the acronym: REDD). it is thought to be either fully or partially responsible for a host of illnesses, including multiple sclerosis, myalgic encephalomyelitis, ALS, inflammatory rheumatoid arthritis, Gulf War Syndrome, fibromyalgia, to name a few. for a long time its contours were unknown, but there is now a definitive test (95% positive) and it is considered a discrete, well-defined clinical entity, although accurate information about it is rare, especially among physicians (to the extraordinary detriment of their patients). Read more... http://www.integralworld.net/wilber_health.html If you know other people interested in this IW Newsletter, please forward this mail to them. Thanks. To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UPDATE your email address or UNSUBSCRIBE, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/login.php To go to the Newsletter Archive, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/newsletter.html