RE: Could childrens' fear of doctors be trying to tell us something? And "Merging Ideas" (art)
I went into convulsions with my smallpox vaccination. On top of that the vaccination didn't take. I'm the only one I know my age who doesn't have that little pock mark on their arm.
My early life dental experience is much like @marymg2014. I was raised on junk food that included lots of pop and candy so my baby teeth literally rotted out of my head. My mother was a tooth freak and my uncle was an osteopath. His philosophy was that kids should keep their baby teeth as long as they can and the adult teeth will come in straight. He also didn't believe it was a good idea to give kids Novocaine. He had a friend who was a dentist who agreed to drill my baby teeth without anesthetic, so they strapped me down, including my head and tongue and went for it every Tuesday week after fearful week. That's my child abuse experience.
My youngest son was always an outside kid. When he was still in diapers, I found him sitting on the lawn crying. His eyes were almost swollen shut. He was having an anaphylactic reaction. I found the original welt of the sting, though I never saw what stung him. We rushed him to the hospital. In a follow up visit to the doctor, he said we would have follow the same injection routine you went through. I said no way, that he was so young that he would grow out of it. The doctor said that was unlikely but I was adamant. We settled for an epinephrine injection kit to be used in case he was stung again. The first time it happened we injected him immediately. The second time it happened I waited and there was no reaction. He is now almost 40 and has been stung dozens of times by almost every stinging insect there is. He does not react abnormally.
I still hate dentists and seldom go unless it's an emergency. I'm almost 68 and I have only lost one tooth. My mistrust for doctors led me to become a holistic chiropractor. Good things sometimes come out of bad experiences.
Great story! It's good to find the silver linings. That's amazing that your child "grew out of" an allergy to bee stings! They did that test with lots of bubbles on my arm, and pronounced me cured, after a few years. I've been stung since, but didn't realize until very recently that it's just hornets and white-faced wasps that I was allergic to.
Makes me wonder whether all that effort was for nothing -- whether I'd have been "cured" by the same date, just existing, without weekly trauma...
Hard to tell. I quit believing doctors long ago and kind of why I became one myself.
IMHO everyone who visits a doctor needs an "advocate" to tag along, someone who knows a bit about health and healing. Most folk just do what the doctor tells them, trusting that the doctor knows best. But just like every other "industry" out there, agenda, corruption and purposeful misinformation abound. People need to hear the alternative view.
My younger sister had a minor stroke on thanksgiving about 3 years ago. She had been to the dentist the day before. I think the dental work created a clot that migrated to her brain, but that's not my point here. She has incomparable health insurance, one that pays for any procedure. As a result, not only did she get every test imaginable as well as much needed physical therapy, she's had a gazillion follow up visits, each with a new (read still under patent) prescription. (As you may not be aware, phase 5 pharmaceutical testing is done on the general public).
After her stroke was under control, another test revealed lung cancer. After a bout of chemo and radiation, they found another small nodule in her other lung. After another round of radiation, they discovered she had uterine cancer so she scheduled to have that removed as well.
She sees at least one type of specialist a week. Since all of them are employees of a larger medical organization, she doesn't develop a rapport with any of them. If she hadn't been in such good health when she had the stroke, I'm sure they would have killed her by now.
The other day she told me that she's through with these scheduled visits. "They don't care about me," she said. It can be argued that they saved her life by testing and then treating these things before they became incurable so my argument lacks teeth. However, she's much weaker now than she was before all this intervention. She is no quitter and she's very determined to regain her health. I think that not visiting to doctor too often is probably the best way for her to do that at this point. When it comes to doctors, often less exposure is better. At some point quality of life trumps quantity.