My mother married shortly after the nervous breakdown she suffered while still in her teens. She smoked and drank alcohol while pregnant with me, her first of five children. It is not surprising that she was unable to nurse me. At age two, my tonsils were removed as I was quite miserable to live with. That year I also donned extremely thick eyeglasses due to ”cross eyes”. When I was five, my parents became lacto-ovum vegetarians. As an adult I became vegan. A glucose tolerance test revealed I was hypoglycemic so I tried to avoid anything rich or concentrated. Around 35 years of ag ...   read more