Just getting back from a short trip!

Oh absolutely I think the water is huge! The only trouble is I haven't been able to convince her of it or find an article or something that she will accept as proof that she really is ingesting a lethal combination with no water and lots of aspartame.

I haven't actually asked Mom to talk to our herbalist, mostly because she is very resistant to trying to solve problems that aren't pressing. She's very much an in-the-moment person and one of her favorite thoughts is that everything is random because there's no consensus on what the cause might be. For instance, both my husband and I have suggested to her that she should try not drinking the diet pop and see if that helps, but as soon as the TN flareup dies down she says she didn't see any difference between drinking it and not drinking it and there's no conclusive proof one has anything to do with the other. Unless we could convince her to stop drinking it and the TN immediately receded within hours, she won't see a link.

At present, I'm more trying to build a toolbox of how to help her when the day arrives that I'm going to be responsible for her care. So anything I can find that I could begin introducing to help her or understanding of how the neuralgia itself works is interesting to me even if maybe not to her at the moment [grin]. If I did build up a store in information, I might be able to interest her at that point, especially since I know she really does not ever want to end up on pain meds.