My dear friends, I have been sickly most of my adult life by, not passing bowels often enough.

 Hey! "NO Chit"! That was the problem and after 4-5 days w.o. "going" I felt bloated, heavy, and my pants were stretched to the max, if I could get them up.

 I started taking something for my liver, from a very well known"Natures's Best", or something like that!

 I couldn't tell you anyway as that would make my little bit of "guide" useless and moot!

 I started taking a product called "Milk Thistle" which came in capsule form, and by serendipity, something else happened, ... although, as an adult who, because of inactivity, as I survived a plane crash back in 1976, And, in this crash my spine was crushed and I had to get even more "lazy" bu recovering in bed for over a year and I blocked up, and I couldn't remember when I "went" or moved a thing, (bowel-wise!), and I was "full-o'-chit"!

 I felt like I was poisened, and you would also, if you went to yon bathroom every week or so, and swore that you, as a man, started to get stomach contractions which my stomach did all by itself, and it hurt like heck, as I thought many times I knew how it was to give birth, as my rectum, would bleed, rip out piles and pollups, and worried my wife to death, as my dad...he died of Colon-Cancer back in 1958.

Sometimes color the water in the bowl with blood. And, red it was...not pink but it wa sholding quite a bit of blood...and I was scared, real scared.

 I went to see my "Dr. of Meds" and as he said, :"while you're healing from the crash, your nerves in your back have basically shut down, and stopped you from "going" as regular as you should...crappers, I never went, except to have these 5-8 pound babies, which made me sweat, my stomach constricted, and the muscles pulled inward "trying to 'do the thing' all by itself".

                                                WAS THERE A REMEDY??

I had suffered this all of my known life along with severe heartburnsand waking up in the night with tears in my eyes from the burning in my chest.

 But, at the time I started taking the "Milk Thistle" for my liver I think it was, serendipitously, I started "going" much more regularly~!~!

 It started to keep me regular "for me"..like every 3 days, then as I kept taking the "Milk Thistle" caps, my  body, inspite of any excersize that I didn't get, I became regular to every 2 days, and have been at that regularity ever since, and since then, I have been out of bed, as I healed my back I started to walk more, and now after nearly 20 years taking my "Milk Thistle" capsules, I am totally "correct" for me.

 I move when I need to, and I haven't ripped my rectum opened and bled into the crapper (after "James Crapper", inventor), and have NOT had piles like grapes & tangerines any more, as I was afraid that I was going to take my dad's route in life, as he died of "Colon-Cancer" at the age of 43! Which gave me a loss I shall never get over as I needed him so much when I was 11 and just ready to take to the streets, which I did, and toughened up w.o. my dad's guidance.

 But, now, I have grown in so many ways, and when I got older, I started to make a garden, which I used Organics only, and I shall tell you, being Virgin Soil in Ma., I had never thought that our food sould or would taste like it did...so , I learned a lot, which was why, when my intestinal specialist said to start taking "Milk Thistle" as I had "Pre-cancerous Barrette's Aesophogus" at the age of 49, and I thought of dad. And, as I usually do, I cried, as I still do,

But, recall, it was serendipity, or accidentally that I discovered what saved my life in more than one way!: I became regular, and the heartburn that I suffered from all of my life(so that I thought it was a natural thing not to be able to drink milk, water, eat, or drink anything, as if and when I bent over working on things, I regurgitated nearly all of the time, and "WOW!" was that horrid pain and burning, and there was nothing that put it out, until I told my Dr. who caught the "Barrette's" over 20 years ago, I feel great, and never have babies any more, and there is no blood in the "john", which helped me to recall the night that "dad" left the house to go to the hospital, and there he died at 43, and when I was 43, I said:"But, he was so young!"...as I still felt young and full of life, and still do as I go for a Colonoscopy every two (2) years and I have a Endoscopy every year...I am clean, my doc removes a few pollups once in a while, but that's it.

 Now that my daughters have grown, I have my three grand-daughters to talk to, and so far I have three Great grand-daughters that call me"POP" also, and I feel like I will make it to an old and good age.

 But, never neglect those signs of heartburns, regurgitating when you are trying to go to sleep, and that burned the worst, as even ice cream, never even helped...My Dr. Put me on two of those Purple Pills" each "A.M., and nothing has bothered me again, and I'll be darned, but regularity is a reality, and is to be expected, so let none of these symptoms get away from you to the point where you just won't make it to the next decade, as I am 62 years old now, and feel great, and I still read, watch DVD's and learn new things, I study the Bible and I really enjoy it, as I never knew "when I wore a younger man's clothes", that this was a large puzzle that shows you the pictures of life as it should be.

   Thank God, and may you have a pleasant night, as I am going to turn in now, but some months ago, I wanted to write about this "Milk Thistle" experience, and it's up to you now, you can burn, have baby turds, that stretch your rectum so far that you are holding the towel rack and find that your body has taken over and is "PUSHING" all by iyself to rid itseklf of that poison.

 And, all I can say is that I would NOT mislead you, and I guess that you may check it out for yourself, with any browser that you have or want, but here we are, in a technological society where things can be checked out within seconds to minutes.

 Thank GOD! and have a pleasant night and  May God bless.(Red Skelton) Tatonka-Rick