Testimonials

Here’s just a small selection of the lovely letters, comments and cards I have received from satisfied customers ... (lump in throat!)

Thank you so much for sending this to me.  I'm not all the way through it yet.  I'm excited to join the forum in the future as I know that will help answer a lot of questions.  Thank you again for all that you've done for me and for others.  You are truly a gift.  MA April 12

I woke up this morning, checked my email on my phone while I was in bed and wound up waking my husband up to read your email to him. I was in tears and honestly, am in tears again as I write this to you. I can't begin to tell you how thankful we both were to receive your response - I know you're very busy and it meant so much to know you took the time to write back, and quickly!

We have been praying that God would guide us and direct us to answers and your website was a complete God-send. I pray God blesses your medical talents...your articles and insight were a beacon for us last night. LE April 12

Thanks Micki for all your help – I don’t know where I would be if I hadn’t found you. Feel like I’m living a nightmare at the moment! CG Mar 12

You do have to be patient on the gluten free diet. I have multiple sensitivities, and have been on a strict diet for approx 14 months, It is has only been in the last few weeks, I am actually feeling 'normal' and well. So the message is Be patient, it will happen! JH mar 12

You're doing a great job. Keep up the good work because this stuff is SO needed. MM Mar 12

I have only discovered your site in the last few days but thank goodness I did. It's been a godsend. Thank you so much for doing the leg work for us - and long may it continue. CW Feb 12 re TGF site

Many thanks for all the useful information in your ebook and on your websites - I've learnt so much! AE Feb 12

YOU ARE AN ANGEL!!!!

Thank YOU- THANK YOU -THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR INFORMATION!! :)

I no longer feel crazy after reading from your site! I have hope & I am empowered! Looking fwd to the barrier diet & protocol!  

I just cannot believe I have found your site. I am tired, emotional and so fed up of doctors telling me I cannot be allergic to grains and to take an antidepressant. First I want to thank you for ringing me this afternoon, it was great to talk to someone who understands what I’m going through. CG Feb 12

I have this evening read your Truly gluten Free eBook from cover to cover.  What an amazing read!  I have been horrified at the amount of ‘hidden’ gluten there is in everything! CG Feb 12

Thank you again for your invaluable help. I will gladly ask for your services again.. MM Feb 12

Your blog & website are brilliant KT Feb 12

I am so grateful for all the work you do – much of it unpaid – and I would like to give you £500 donation so you can keep up the good work. D Feb 12

At first when I went gluten free I did very well.  Then I decided that I deserved the gluten free snacks and beer that are available and slid backwards.  I suspected these other grains, but all I ever heard from the doctors was "no wheat, barley, rye or oats" right?  My neighbor sent me the link to your article and I went "I KNEW IT!" So now, no more of those grain products for me at all.  Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!  PC Feb 12

Thank you so much. I have only discovered your [TGF] site in the last few days but thank goodness I did. It's been a godsend. I have Crohn's disease not Coeliac disease, but know from following an elimination diet that I am intolerant of wheat, dairy, corn, oats, citrus fruits and several other ingredients.

I have learned from experience to read labels thoroughly and have just had to ditch some vitamin supplements as the small print revealed they contained milk! My mistake. But this is where your site comes into its own! In Deep Appreciation. B Feb 12 re TGF site

Anyhow, thankyou once again, I am so so glad I came across your website, your service is invaluable & it has given me renewed hope that I will find the answer, by looking outside of the box a bit more.. EP Jan 12

Thank you so much. I have only discovered your [TGF] site in the last few days but thank goodness I did. It's been a godsend. I have Crohn's disease not Coeliac disease, but know from following an elimination diet that I am intolerant of wheat, dairy, corn, oats, citrus fruits and several other ingredients.

I have learned from experience to read labels thoroughly and have just had to ditch some vitamin supplements as the small print revealed they contained milk! My mistake. But this is where your site comes into its own!

Thank you so much for doing the leg work for us - and long may it continue. CW Jan 12

Just signed up for your newsletter several weeks ago and always read your page in the Saddleworth Monthly, you will be Saddleworthly missed! DS Jan 12

Thanks for all your help and guidance over the last few years. MK Jan 12

I’ve always enjoyed and read your column first. Good luck and thank you. RK Jan 12

I am grateful to you beyond what I can say.  Your approach and manner and knowledge is world class.  All Doctors should be sent to you for some bedside manner training- I’m serious !  I don’t want to inflate your ego too much but I have never come across anyone like u !  Tell P he’s a lucky man ! HM Jan 12

Anyhow, thankyou once again, I am so so glad I came across your website, your service is invaluable & it has given me renewed hope that I will find the answer, by looking outside of the box a bit more.. EP Jan 12

"Thanks micki - still sticking to the new diet, it's been nearly a year now, and it's had an additional benefit in that it's finally meant I've had to learn to cook!  The diet is an absolute way of life now and because my body has healed so much it means I can have the odd 'naughty' treat without it giving me the explosive side effects it used to - it's changed my life for the better! EP Nov 11

Thought I'd share my good news with you and offer my thanks for your success: Glucose reading last few years: 6.1, 6.0 now 4.8, I'm told normal!! My PSA rise which has climbed faster than I'd like since March from 0.42 has also been arrested, Sept 0.6 to 0.58 now.  On this point, the only difference in diet the last few months has been the selenium loaded multi vits you prescribed. KS Dec 11

Thank you very much for getting back to me.  The information you have provided is truly valuable. A huge thank you. JC Nov 11

You're an angel for doing all this work for us!!! If we'd rely on docs they would have put us in mental houses, strapped in with soft white padded rooms because they think we're crazy (well, maybe a little). If it weren't for you, a lot ( a LOT) of people would still be suffering and fighting every day.. you're giving them a chance to get well, and that's the greatest gift in this world! NM Nov 11

I am a coeliac who wasn't diagnosed til late in life, aged 40, although I obviously had the disease in infancy. I'm 56years old and although I am strictly gluten free to the point of neurosis I have had problems of late which seemed similar to my symptoms which eventually led to my diagnosis. My blood test for EMAs was negative. I had a feeling that corn might be causing my problem. I used Google and came across your website. I purchased your book and have just started to read it. The ideas and research outcomes discussed in your book seem to make perfect sense to me! I will be cutting corn out of my diet now and other foods too by the looks of it. Thank you for this book. If only I could convince the gastroenterology doctors I work with to read this book. KF Nov 11 re TGF book.

Dealing with a non local health practionner by email was quite a leap of faith for me. But I want to thank you, you probably saved my life... and my sanity. :O) You did so much more than any other health practitioner I have met in person. Thank you!! 

Perhaps I shouldn't say this but it's a relief. CA, Oct 11

Just a couple of lines to keep in touch. In the last few weeks I've been feeling well. I think the benefits of the last six month on the tablets you gave are starting to work. I feel more energetic and started to exercise more regularly. RS Sep 11

He started back at school on Monday and has managed full time every day so far. He even went swimming after school last night! DC Sep 11 (after a few weeks on TGF, 9 year old boy off school with chronic fatigue)

Thank you so much for the advice to go grain free. I am pleased to say that finally my hair has stopped falling out again and is soft and shiny. The severe pain in the palm of my hand has gone as has the pain in my knee and most of all my hands haven't gone bluey orange and swollen for a few days now. I feel slightly bereft at night as my restless leg syndrome has also gone. I'm so used to twitching I almost want to keep moving my leg out of habit seems alien to lie at peace!! Have a slight tingling in a shoulder blade for a few minutes each night but am sure that will go with time.

Thank you, thank you, thank you,. Will be up to visit for an appointment sometime over the next few months. for sure. In the mean time it is wonderfully supportive to know you are on a blog and have the web site.

If I can ever do anything to help please say- not a great fund raiser but I do go running so could do a charity run to raise awareness if that is ever useful. CG Sep 11

The test results are great news, it’s amazing that my bones are improving, I’m so pleased and thankful to you. MC Sep 11

Thanks for your support.  My family are so relieved to see some definitive progress at last.  I honestly can say I am going to do all I can to maintain my health and maybe I will feel better than I ever did ?  My teens onwards were lousy and at 37 I can claim some time back.  What a journey !!!  Onwards and upwards , hurrah. Thanks cannot express our gratitude. HM Aug 11

What I have read of your TGF ebook so far makes perfect sense to me. Wish my GP would read it! I have a lot yet to learn. Thank you. CM Aug 11

I can hardly believe how much better he is – still crossing my fingers – he went for a 9 mile off road bike ride with A on Sunday and was fine afterwards!! 

Think I am beginning to feel better too – apart from not getting enough sleep due to all the cooking!!  I got to the top of 2 large flights of stairs at the museum in town without even thinking about it – fingers crossed that I will make it up Snowdon one day! SC Aug 11 (both herself and son suffering long-term chronic fatigue)

Thanks so much again, and also for all the wonderful information you provide. CM July 11

Loving your blogs. HM July 11

Thanks so much for your help - I was actually starting to think I was going mad as I was so tired and couldn't work out why. I'm so glad I found your website. CW June 11

Many thanks Micki I am glad I found you and for the help you have given me thus far. I shall keep your details close by. BT June 11

Thank you so much for giving me your time and expertise, just wish that you were on the NHS with your thinking and care. Thank you BT June 11

The TGF website is taking shape really well and your recent coeliac week blogs very good. :) CW June 11

Just a brief note to send you my best wishes for the summer and my continued  thanks for your advice and friendship this time last year when I was in such a quandary. I am pleased to say that my progress continues well and some days I feel absolutely brilliant – which I didn’t expect at 711/2! AH June 11

You are worth your weight in gold.  I am so glad I called now!  I will be staying home all next week to monitor and pay extra attention to all this.  I can say truthfully that I do for the first time believe my body isn’t totally ruined and that I can heal myself.  I must have some fight in me as my adrenals want to work – I can feel it.  I spent the last two years not understanding my health and now I feel that I can make judgements and question what I am doing.  I know this is your business and that you need to pay your bills, but S and I trust you and thank god that we came across your website one very deflated, hopeless evening.  I know I am going to have good and bad days but at least I can say I have found the rungs on the ladder and started to climb.  I need to look back and then I realise in such a short time there has been a fight back from little old me.  I am unhappy that I look like someone I am not but maybe later you can sort out some anti ageing regime for me too !!!!

The ultimate for me will be when I can take J out and keep up with the other mums.  I don’t want to let him and S down anymore.  Please continue to support me.

Thanks from a very grateful H x HM May 11

I feel good. Should that change I will be in touch in a flash for you to fix me again :-)  Thank you for caring, without you I wouldn't be where I am today. WR May 11

I’m so glad I rang! What is it like being so clever?! HM May 11

Thanks for being one of the few doctors looking outside the box. We need you! BN May 11

I had a few friends to stay a couple of weekends ago and catered for them on my dietary requirements.  They said it was the best food they'd had and were really surprised that a healthy diet is far from boring!  One of my friends is starting her wheat/dairy free journey but was stumped when it came to variety in her diet as she doesn't cook much.  She took away plenty of easy ideas!  Great fun!

…thank you again for all your support at the time I needed it most.  On reflection I have no idea where I'd be now if I'd not had your guidance over the last six months - probably would have been off sick a lot and thoroughly miserable! CW April 11.

I have found your [How To Eat Well] Ebook extremely useful and have now cut out wheat and dairy products for good! My gut is now comfortable and I feel that the healthy recipes in the book have given me added vitality. I would definitely recommend this to anyone. PW April 11

Thanks so much for your help - I was actually starting to think I was going mad as I was so tired and couldn't work out why. I'm so glad I found your website. CW Apr 11

I do realise how much work is involved in what you do and cannot thank you enough for all your help, it's the first time I actually feel I am getting somewhere and it really makes so much sense in what you say. Many thanks. DW Apr 11

All is going well with the exclusion diet so far. I have had no problems except one incident after mayonnaise for over 3 weeks now which is unheard of for me. I never thought it possible! - I just can't believe the difference. EP Mar 11

All is progressing well with the wheat/dairy free and low sugar diet and I'm enjoying my 'alternative' food very much. I've been sleeping better ever since I reduced (and now, cut out completely) wheat. I do feel that I have more energy too. All heading in the right direction, I think. MG Mar 11

Comments on the new TrulyGlutenFree ebook:

I asked an editor if I could improve the book and she replied: "I thought it was pretty A1 ace really. Not sure what else you could have said, or said better, where...." MBJ. Yay! Praise indeed.

I was very impressed with your Truly Gluten Free book - and a bit overwhelmed by all the information.  I now need to get my act together - and this order [for the wheat and dairy free recipe book] is the first step. SW Feb 11

I have been doing a bit of reading trying to get gluten free recipes etc, and they aren't truly gluten free at all - and I only know that by the information you have already provided me - so the link for me is trust.  Which I have with you.  The information I downloaded from your website recently is so interesting, factful and I did think whilst reading it that it must have taken you a long time to compile. GR Feb 11

"I have now finished your TGF book and the whole TGF concept is quite mind boggling. It's really made me rethink even more what is in our food and other products we use daily. The first part of the book made immediate sense and was relatively easy to grasp but when I got onto the whole corn thing I just kept thinking OMG I hope my issue is not with corn!!! It's quite extraordinary how quickly we (western society) have introduced such things into our diet and everyday lives in such quantities without really knowing the effect of them." CW Feb 11

"OMG - I've only got through the first few pages and it makes so much sense!  The challenge for this whole area though is that it's not straightforward to explain - for the medical and naturopathic professions, individuals and the media.   You really have put in a huge amount of work to start this process though - thank you & well done.  I'll carry on reading and let you know more." CW Feb 11

"Thanks - have listened to the video - absolutely fascinating and quite shocking !!! I cannot believe the list of symptoms it causes - re mine, aneamia, hair loss, skin conditions, bloating, etc etc !!  I have ordered your truly gluten free e book and I have also this morning ordered the genetic gluten test." GR Feb 11  

This is all really helpful and clear - thank you for your time and attention and expertise!  MF Feb 11

I liked your blog re New Year Assessment!  Very relevant to me. I feel good, 'regular' (even occasional twice a day - I didn't believe you when you said that's possible!) and I have dropped another couple of pounds in weight. Thanks again for your support and advice. CW Jan 11

Since we last spoke Ive not had a bad day just a middle of the road on in December which to what I used to be is brilliant, I enjoyed christmas a lot more this year. SD Jan 11

That [blog post] was really awesome, I laughed out loud, Loved it thank you hahahahahaha!!! WR Dec 10

Thanks so much for all your support during the past year - from several people in Christmas cards and emails. I have such lovely patients and it is a pleasure to help!

With love and thanks for all the help and wise guidance you have given me this year. AH Dec 10.

By the way love the newsletter - absolutely brilliant, good reading and good content.  Hope they come out regularly!JM Dec 10

Thanks again. You are a real mine of info! Don't know what I'd do without you!! Just off to write to the EU Commissioner about the stupid food supplements directive! SC Dec 10

Thank you so much for your help, I knew you would help me. MS Nov 10

This [email consultation] is a marvellous way to consult..... I feel I can think clearly about what I want to know and get terrific benefit from being able to read your response and consider it. AH Nov 10

Thank you again for your time and thank you for what you do helping people discover what is really wrong with them and dealing with it! RH Nov 10

Your factsheets are very useful and well written, so easy to understand :) CW Nov 10 

Well the detox you put me on went well and the results have been outstanding. I have felt so much better in general and my tum has totally calmed down - no bloating, no growling and my bowel movements have been much more regular and solid. I have lost 9lbs too so that's good, feel better about myself. ND Nov 10

Many thanks for the brilliant information, really appreciate your help - you are a star and my lifeline! SW Nov 10

I looked at loads of nutritionists' websites and I chose to come and see you because your website was great. I felt like you were in the room talking just to me. JP Nov 10.

I can’t believe how much better I am feeling these days and very much hoping it will last for ever if I am sensible. I continue to be most grateful for your support; it has completely eliminated my fear of the unknown. I have no doubt that others say the same.

Every good wish. AH Nov 10

Nutritionist Micki Rose has done it again!  Come up with another invaluable bit of information for allergics! MB-J Foodsmatter.com, Nov 10

Thanks for your newsletter. My goodness you are a busy lady, your website is brilliant and I want to say how much I appreciate what you do! VB Nov 10

I'm now at the start of week three of being truly wheat and dairy free and just can't imagine ever going back to my previous diet!  I weighed myself at the weekend and I'm under 11 stone for the first time in years.  I had to pin my trousers by the end of last week and a number of people commented at work that I was looking well and 'have you lost weight'?CW Oct 10

Good to meet you and thank you for a fascinating two hours.  It was, as you said, a lot to take in.   But just talking it all through and then having some direction to get to the bottom of the way I'm feeling is great...A huge thank you - without getting too deep and meaningful, this whole experience you are sharing is quite profound! CW Oct 10 

Good spirits and confidence: 10 on your scale! Thank you! AH Oct 10

I picked you because I felt you seemed to know more  than other clinics that I looked at and what you say on your website made sense for Candida as I know it. TF Sep 10

As per your advice, I have cut dairy out at the moment and am just drinking soya milk, Soya yog's etc, it seems to have made a big difference, things are solid and I feel strong again with a lot of energy and nearly back to normal. TE Sep 10

I suggest that you ask Micki Rose, who has never failed to come up with something for us yet, no matter how strange the query we lob her. Editor Foodsmatter.com, Sep 10

Your [Menopause] factsheet was excellent. I have to say, the thing I most like is your matter of fact style of writing (it's like you're sitting next to me chatting away.) I've been following most of the 'natural approach' points....and I feel much much better and less like a lump of lard. DW Sep 10

I just want to say a big thank you for all your support and knowledge so far!  You are the first person who is actually interested in helping and are looking into a number of things for me.  As you know, I have had so many appointments with doctors and specialists and they have only ever told me to take iron tablets or to just be patient things will sort themselves out!  So it is a massive relief to me that you are helping and just wanted to extend my appreciation. GR Sep 10

You are always so lovely and reassuring....I am feeling so dreadful today that I had already decided to go completely yeast, wheat and dairy free again tomorrow and hope for a Micki miracle.SP Sep 10

I can't believe it; I feel so different to how I used to feel. I have lost all the bloating and wind symptoms, have changed the way I eat, cut down on alcohol and started exercising. I have also started losing weight - 7lb and 5" on my belly so far! Thank you for getting me - and keeping me - on track! JC Sep 10

Thoroughly enjoyed your newsletter this month! GR Sep 10

The good news is that my physical symptoms are much improved.  Cystitis more or less gone.  Sleeping better.  Legs mostly better. So that was a result and I would like to thank you.  AL July 10

Thanks for the information I knew if anybody could help me it would be you. Thank you so much. LT June 10

"Micki is a mine of information and advice on all things nutritional and to do with the skin. A multi-intolerant herself  (see her ‘Diary of a food intolerant’) she runs the Pure Health Clinic in Warwickshire from whence appears an excellent blog on which she posts regularly on all the above topics, plus many more. Alternatively, you can sign up to get all of her blogs as a monthly newsletter. Massively informative – and good fun." A lovely comment on FoodsMatter blog directing people to my blog! MB-J Sep 10.

Thanks very much for the newsletter, as always I found it very funny and informative! JM June 10
 
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Out of all the doctors and all the people I have ever seen about all this, you are the first that has actually listened to me. Thank you. VS June 10

You are kind, and thank you for your goodness. AC April 10

This was a case of a woman with chronic cystitis, heartburn and an extremely sore coated tongue. She had an initial consultation, some tests and one review with plenty of email support:

“Having never had any previous experience with a Naturopath/Nutritionist before, I booked my first appointment with Purehealth with scepticism.  However, the advice and help I received was second to none.  Within a short period of time my symptoms disappeared with the added bonus that I also lost 12lbs in weight whilst eating delicious healthy foods alongside the supplements Micki recommended.  The monthly health bulletins which continue to follow even after consultations have finished have also proved to be very informative, interesting and fun.
Thank you Purehealth”. SP April 10

Thank you for taking the time to educate us with your newsletters and columns. We really miss you in the village. LI April 10.

I LOVE your newsletter; you really should write books. You have such a lovely turn of phrase and you make me laugh out loud! WR April 10.

Micki, I really appreciate your helping me like this, thank you and bless you. AC April 10.

Call from a lady who I had seen years before with her daughter: ‘Just wanted to call to say my daughter has just been diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, which is what you said years ago. It has taken us until now to get the diagnosis, and I wanted to let you know you were right all along. Thank you for pointing us in the right direction.’ April 10.

Successful case: woman who ‘wanted her life back’ feeling out of control emotionally and physically with body aching, whole body itching, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, recurrent myriad physical symptoms. Scored herself 10 (as bad it gets) and within 2 months on prescription programme scored 0 (well). ‘I walked out of the first appointment with you and just felt so different; I knew it was going to be alright. Thank you for talking to me. I haven’t thought about the emotional problems since that time and it feels like a huge weight has been lifted from me. I feel like I’ve got my life back at last. Thank you so much.’ WR Mar 10.

I couldn’t believe it. My bloating and pain went within 3 days of starting the prescription and diet - after forty years! I am so pleased. JC Mar 10.

I love your newsletter – I get loads of them every day but yours is the only one I read CS Jan 10

I always come back to you - you’re the only one who can join the dots together, thank you! SC Oct 09

Thanks so much for today, I can finally see a sliver of light at the end of that dark dark tunnel WR Oct 09

Thank you for all the support it really helps keep me on track and highlights that there is light at the end of the tunnel,when I think there is not. BW Sep 09

You know how much I value all that you have done to make me feel well. SR Sep 09

L is doing so well - my childminder can't get over how happy he is, he really does seem less 'disturbed' for want of a better word and I don't mean mentally I mean in terms of his little tum bless him. Thanks for all your help - very much appreciated. AC Mar 09

Thank you for helping us to overcome many of our health problems over the past few years. We miss seeing you and wish you both good luck (and good health) in the future. Will you come back if we promise not to sing?! AP, EP, Feb 09

Heartburn is now a thing of the past. Very grateful to you. SA, Feb 09

Just wanted to let you know I have just read your newsletter and it has made me feel very positive as I too have felt very down recently with all the ‘doom and gloom’.  Your words were very inspiring so I thought you might like to know that you have given me a boost for the New Year with a new attitude! J Thank you. LM Jan 09

Thank you for your great, positive, newsletter.. I'm sorry to hear you're not doing the Mossley appointments anymore, I'm just so thankful that you were around last year to sort out my problems. SA, Jan 09

I can’t believe how much better I feel in such a short time. Thank you so much! MK Jan 09

I'm overwhelmed by your kindness and knowledge. Thank you. EO Jan 09

I feel great. I’m not tired all the time or aching everywhere any more. I feel that at long last I am starting to feel like the woman I always knew I was inside. JM Dec 08

I am officially in love with the Borlind skincare. I am selling all the expensive stuff I haven’t opened on ebay. i can’t bear to use anything with toxic chemicals in now you’ve shown me. And thanks for a great party - everyone was fascinated! Louise Dec 08

Thank you very much for coming back to me so quickly. I have been very impressed with your website and service and will definitely use you again, and recommend you to other people. Thank you so much! C Nov 08

"I've really focused on the 'Lose your belly' programme over the last month or so, with noticeable results - even got a couple of positive comments as people have started to notice, so, thankyou ! In weight terms I've lost 10 lbs and in inches terms all I can say is that when I'm wearing trousers with a waist fastener and zip, I no longer need to undo them to take them off, so, good few inches / generous dress size from my stomach, I think!" SS, Oldham Sep 08 (now 14lb as I write this!)

We couldn't believe the improvement could be so quick. Our 16 year old daughter was diagnosed with ME and a week after seeing you all her symptoms had gone. We have had no help at all from our doctors who even recommended we see a psychiatrist! Thank you so much. We are telling everyone. IH June 07

The diet is going brilliantly, despite my initial scepticism, and I've had zero stomach cramps since Day Two. CJ Dec 2006

Many thanks for everything you have done for me over the two years (!!!!!!!!!) you have been working with me, I would not be as well as I am without you. I am now looking forward to clearing all my problem areas and eating CAKE!!!! ( my husband goes mad when I say that he thinks I am going to eat nothing but cake, but there are always biscuits and sweets and chocolate!!!!!!!!) Only joking, I am not going to jeopardise what I have achieved by binging on anything. Maureen M Dec 2005

I really am feeling a lot better now. I’d say I am back to where I was about 3 years ago. Sharon C, June 2005

I just wanted to send you this to say a really big thank you for all the help that you have given me and to let you know the outcome of my visits with you. I am sure you have seen lots of people and sometimes wonder if they ever achieved the goals they were trying to reach when they originally came to see you. Well, I am well on the way.

 “Thank you for all the help you have given me over the last year – you’ve changed my life!” Heidi, December 2002

“Thanks very much for your kind support through Mary’s present illness. I don’t know what we would have done without you.” Alan and Mary B, December 2002