Why is it people in the healthcare professions are the least openminded --as well as being some of the unhealthiest people around? I mean, look at all the enormous nurses running around. What is UP with that??? (Actually, I think that nurses turn to food/alcohol/the meds cart to alleviate the pain they feel from dealing with the injured and sick.)
I also have a close friend who is an RN, and who is pretty openminded about this stuff. And I don't talk a lot about any protocols or therapies I do -- mostly as it does not a whit of good -- but sometimes I'll make a calculated decision (i.e., Well, she's an old friend, she's a doctor, what if she "heard" something, did some research, and, say, started treating with iodine???) and spill the beans.
I almost feel like she knew what to do with me more/liked me better when I was just smoking crack and weighed 100 pounds.
The worst are my brother- and sister-in-law. Both pediatric nurse practitioners. So, they have this kid, who every so often has to come running, face-plant into a nebulizer, take a big whiff of chem, and then go about his business. Now, far be it from me to tell them what to do, but believe me, we got the biggest e-lecture about choosing not to vaccinate our girls. How I f'ing regret ever spilling those beans! At the same time, they have this child with three of the new childhood diseases -- allergies, asthma, eczema, all linked to vacinations -- this little 4-year-old who is constantly nebulizing, getting shots, and sometimes has to sleep in gloves because of his itching -- shit, I would rather get the mumps! I posted this recently on another forum, but I really believe these chronic, low-level sicknesses are worse than the big ones (i.e. I'd rather have the flu for a week than allergies for three months!). I really believe these days that the US is a nation of people who don't even know what feeling good feels like, beginning in childhood, which is supposed to be a golden age for all of us!
I am over my doctor. He was sort of worse than just a regular doctor as he was an MD who also practiced homeopathy, and I think he sort of perpetuates the worst of both worlds. I am back to believing that all they are good for is the occasional
Antibiotic or narcotic when you really, really need them, and otherwise, stay away. I am at my father's apartment in Washington right now and it astonishes me to see the sheer volume of allergy/sinus medications he has in his bathroom. I mean, it is NOT working for him! The shots, the pills, the surgery -- people have these chronic conditions, where the body gives them the GIFT of symptoms, which they then desperately and religiously try to inhibit -- we accept chronic illness in this country the way we accept the receipt from the ATM machine -- when really, those are treatable and curable, with some willingness and action and openmindedness. What has happened to the land of the free and the home of the brave? Can you say, "Baaaahhhhh" --?? That's the sound of another sheep, waddling off to the doctor for more Singulair, unwilling to stop eating certain foods, try an alternative therapy, refuse to get into that miserable place at the doctor's office when you have to tell the emporer he has no clothes and say, Gee, Doc, this ain't workin' -- again!
It's also a gift to have arrived here at CZ with the willingness to be openminded, honest about allopathic failure, and a readiness to take some action. We can quibble on these forums about this or that, but there are a lot of success stories -- accounts of relief from these chronic problems -- that are without parallel in today's medical offices and hospitals. No wonder plastic surgery is on the rise and gerontologists are dropping in numbers! Who wants to treat chronic laziness and illness when they can have happy patients? ;)
Sorry for the tirade, here. But best to all, and thanks for showing up and posting over and over again.
Laura