Angela Morris, 33, grabs a photograph of her sons — 5-year-old Michael Morris and 3-year-old Malachi Morris — in her home Thursday afternoon. From 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the St. Jude Parish Center, there will be a spaghetti benefit for Morris' medical expenses as she battles multiple sclerosis. Morris was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis two years ago.
In 2009, Angela Morris began having strange symtoms in her body, tingling, numbness and paralysis. Her legs began to fail her.
She went to doctors for several months, but they couldn't determine what the problem was.
Finally, she went to Seattle in April 2010. There, doctors determined that she had multiple sclerosis.
Since then, she has been undergoing treatment that thus far has not had the desired effect. She walks with a cane or walker. Sometimes she can't walk.
Her mother helps take care of her 5- and 3-year-old boys sometimes, and sometimes she has a babysitter to help. She needs help doing household chores. She can no longer work as a nurse, a job she loved.
Despite her problems, Angela remains upbeat.
"She is always smiling. You never hear her ask 'Why me?'" said her friend Kathy Woeppel.
"I think it is her trust in God," Woeppel said.
Woeppel and Angela's many friends are working together with Thrivent Financial for Lutherans to put on a benefit for Angela from 4 to 7 p. m. Saturday at St. Jude's Parish Center.
Coca-Cola Refreshments, McDonald's and Gary & Leo's Fresh Foods have donated food and soft drinks.
"Most of the food has been donated," Woeppel said.
Members of the Havre Assembly of God Church have been generous in their donations of food, plates and decorations, she said.
Musical groups will give their time to perform for people, she said.
At 5 p. m., there will be a silent auction and a baked goods live auction, she said.
Woeppel said the proceeds go to Angela and her family who need help paying all the incidental expenses that come up in fighting the disease. Angela has had to go to Seattle several times this year for steroid injections. She has to hire people to watch the children.
Woeppel said she has worked with the family to get Supplemental Security Income for Angela, but with no success.
"There were mounds and mounds of paperwork," she said.
But her application was rejected by federal officials in Helena, and Woeppel said they have been unsuccessful in getting an explanation.
She said Angela's family will serve spaghetti to guests Saturday night, while other volunteers will prepare the food.
Woeppel said lots of people have come forward to help because of the respect the Morris family has earned.
"They are a neat, wonderful family," she said of Angela and her husband, Andy, a computer technician at Montana State University-Northern.
Woeppel said she has been pleased, but not surprised, with the community response. Her grandson was born prematurely and the Havre community rallied to support him.
Now she's glad to help out someone she has known for years.
"I saw Angela grow up. I was at her wedding, at their baby shower," she said.
"I know this great community will help her out," she said.
MS an unusually common Hi-Line illness
North-central Montana seems to have an unusually high percentage of people with multiple sclerosis, according to Angela Morris.
She said about 400,000 people nationwide have been diagnosed with MS, but there seems to be a higher percentage of people in Montana with the disease.
The cold winters and lack of sunshine may contribute to the problem, she said.
There is not enough evidence to say that lack of Vitamin D, which comes from sunshine, causes MS.
"But it does seem to be a common denominator," she said. "People with MS seem to have a shortage of Vitamin D."
Montana has sufficient sunshine only in the summer months, she said. The only way to make up for the lack of sunshine is through vitamin supplements.
amalgum teeth fillings are 40 to 50% mercury so I had all of them taken out and replaced with composite (space age plastic) ---very common now but I had to drive to Spokane Washington to the Holistic Dental Clinic as the Dr. was the first one in the Northwest who was brave enough to stand up against the onslaught of harrassment from the ADA and other dentists. (Composite took twice as long then and didn't last too long ----- much better now)(although none of mine have come out in over 15 years.)
Then I also found a reputable MD who was doing Chelation in Spokane, Washington and drove there once per week for 23 weeks and sat 3 hours for chelation. EDTA which was discovered in Germany over 85 years ago is a substance that removes heavy metals like aluminum, lead and many others. I also had some cholesterol and EDTA removes the unbound calcium that is the glue for cholesterol, therefore sluffing out the cholesterol. This is not 100%, however a study in Europe several years before with over 20,000 heart patients needing by-passes was around 82% effective. The 18% it didn't work on had just waited until they were too old or too plugged up. Mine was extremely effective as I had done it as a preventative measure. Now I am retired with no MS or cholesterol problems. The Dr. who did the chelation started his own chelation at age 25 and at age 51 when I was there he looked thirty or younger. (It seemed strange but keeping the arteries totally clean appears to have stunted the aging process for him.)
Of course it will be a bad word in the U.S. (they love it in Europe) because everytime it works --- some hospital heart team is as they see it --- cheated out of a by pass surgery---- maybe $200,000 now.
One 80 yr old man, with a cheeky look on his face, told me I would never need Viagara if I kept up the Chelation treatments (once per month after 23 or so). It cleans out the veins also, if you have ears to undersand what I mean. I also could run a couple miles without resting after the treatments and I was getting tired in one block before the Chelation.
Oh, I also quit using deodorant and toothpaste with aluminum. Naturpathic Dr's often think MS is partially from the aluminum as well as the mercury and other metals.
There have been many others who have used these European methods to great avail.
Good Luck and have a wonderful day... I was very lucky personally, to find out all this by what appeared to be chance.
Using 1 to 3 Tsp of MSM per day in the powder form can also help immensely. MSM is sulfur which is 1% of our body weight and it synthasizes the protein which is 20% of our body weight. We don't get enough sulfur anymore as it is mostly in ripe fruit and veggies and we don't pick them ripe anymore as they would be rotten by the time we bought them in the grocery store. Using that much MSM will shock most people with the amount of extra energy they develop fairly soon.
It flushes out toxins the way it was designed to do so. Sulfur was never a drug as it is somewhere around the 6th largest ingredient in the body. It's readily available in any health food store. Try to get it in the powder form though or it is very expensive.
A tsp is around 4 1/2 grams and a wafer is 1000mg usually or 1 gram.
To get results one needs to build up to 1 to 3 tsp per day one after each meal with water and vitamin C for best results.
Jimers