The passage surely strikes a chord for me. Several. A great deal can be delineated/derived from this material and brought forward - used as a general understanding of how our bodies learn to adjust to various impacts upon it - be they weather, stress, disease, or toxin related, and so on.

It does have its place here.

I have an uncle in Vermont and visited frequently when I was young. Spent two years as a little girl in Miane, returned at 19 for two years. My body could not withstand the winters, could as a child but not an adult. This in itself says something toward my state of health for more years than I usually take into consideration. It expands my thinking. My canoe was damaged by the time I hit 19. I remember driving up to Boston from NY one year, and while I'd spent several years there prior (when in better "form", college) the cold penetrated every cell in my body. It was unreal how cold it felt to me. In fact it was also the cold weather alone (not storms) which forced me to move to the tropics.

I haven't a chance on that canoe in Vermont today.

And this is why I believe extreme measures are in order if I am to live.

Perhaps considered extreme levels of Iodine for now, from your perspective and Jarvis's. Why not give it a chance. It's my life, and it's also my death if I choose to slowly carry on with my focus toward recovery. I hope this gives you a better understanding for how I make the choices I do (in particular) - and that we all have our reasons/rationales. It has nothing to do with contest or delusion. It is an experiment (to an extent) which I am more than willing to take on. And one heck of a mind/thought altering learning experience.

That weather stuff is fascinating...I get migraines before storms and it took me a while to find someone who believed that.