I am unable to sleep tonight.  I wish Monsanto could share the guilt I feel when I think of  how I have helped to poison  my daughter over the past few years. I am the mother of a wonderful 16 year old daughter, Elizabeth.  Before 1995, Elizabeth was a member of the swim team, the snow ski team, basketball, volleyball, softball and on the cheerleading squad.  She had even been offered a deal with the John Casablanca Modeling Ageny, which she turned down because  she knew the runway classes would be physically challenging, at the time.  Elizabeth was always a good student and attendance was always good. In 1995, we started to drink KoolAid sweetened with aspartame.  In the mornings, I would make a gallon of KoolAid and that is what we drank, all day long.  My daughter started to have leg cramps, headaches, muscles aches and was always very tired.  She dropped out of sports, one by one, and started to miss alot of school. At one point, the truant officer even came to my door with a deputy to try and force me to send my daughter to school. How could I send this child to school when all of her body ached?  She would miss 2 days out of the week some weeks.  I am the first person alive to demand an education for my child, but I couldn't send her to school when she could barely pick her head up from the pillow.  Not knowing what was happening to us was the worst!  People don't want to hear that you are ill or not able to do things with them.  My husband left us, our friends seemed to disappear, I couldn't work and we have literally lost everything.  I bet Monsanto doesn't worry about how he will pay his electric bill.  I wonder if he knows he took the sparkle out of my daughters eyes. YOU'LL NEVER KNOW THE GUILT A  MOTHER FEELS AFTER FINDING OUT SHE HAS BEEN POISONING HER CHILD FOR THE PAST 5 YEARS!! We have been free from aspartame for only 4 days.  It has been a very long 4 days.  Thank God for the friends and people who have come forth to tell their stories.  We would still be using  aspartame.....killing ourselves. I have a  personal experience with aspartame, but I felt I needed to let other mothers know the dangers and the side affects of aspartame.  It nearly destroyed my daughter and myself.  Hopefully, one day her eyesight and strength will return to normal.  Her spirit will once again shine!   Maybe even one day, her dream of becoming a model will finally come true. We are now detoxing our bodies from this garbage.  Like my daughter said, we might hurt now mommy, but it's not forever .... anymore. I thank all of you for your kind thoughts and prayers.  We are survivors!!!

From: Patricia (Raven6354@aol.com)