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RE: Do we live healthy lives to avoid or postpone death?
You lost your husband! I'm so sorry. To ALS. Toothless, toward the end. Oh the indignities. Dying is not for sissies, nor is old age. To die a good death - Native Americans allegedly talked that way. A noble death. But a stroke, 3 years of lost utility, sounds depressing. Demoralizing. And a father "reduced to a daffy and weak old man" - no longer a fearsome figure--"his final six months were horrible, horrible, horrible." This is heartbreaking stuff. You are wise to "live as freely as possible from the ravages of western medicine" and I hope you are rewarded for your good habits! (Love that family photo, btw!)
Using that photo was inspired by your heartstopping freewrite yesterday. It took me a while to find it, as my photos are strewn around the house. Finally found that one in a basket with rarely used tap shoes and half a pair of drumsticks.
I know to avoid western med as much as possible because I have seen it harm so many of my loved ones. Bad stuff. Just say no. I do. My doctor says "colonoscopy", I say "no". My doctor says "mammogram", I say "no". I'm lucky that she accepts this. Recently she suggested x-rays for a problem I am having with my thumbs, probably arthritis, and, when I said "no", she told me to have apple cider vinegar in water every morning. That alone did the trick! We have to wrestle the old ways out of these medically trained people - some of it is still in there.
No mammogram? I wanna say no to that too!!! EVERY time, they have to re-take the image due to "density" and I hate the process and the radiation and the squishing....
Husband had a prolonged stomach ache and doctor had zero advice, so I suggested the apple cider vinegar, and in a day or two, CURED!! It was so simple, and the malady so mysterious. He read that taking it daily and not watering it down enough can be too acidic.
Love your freewrites and all-writes!
hm. I'd best look that up then. I just put a splash of ACV, a dollop of honey, and a gusher of water in a cup and sip it down. It doesn't taste great. I think I'm putting too much ACV. Thanks for saying that.
Most doctors prescribe antacids as the first thing for any stomach ache (I have a gazillion years experience with GI doctors, not for myself but for my kids, all three of whom have crohns), even to babies who are suspected of stomach aches. It's shocking! Do none of them take moment to think anymore? Low stomach acid is just as likely, and so easy to just check that for yourself as your husband did. Cool.
I don't undergo any medical procedure that my body recoils from, if I can help it. I think the recoiling is a clue that the procedure is harmful in some way. That squishing. There is something not right about that squishing. But I also have friends who think mammograms saved their lives. My choice, and I don't tell very many people that, so now you know one of my secrets.
Mutual mutual mutual
Mutual mutual mutual - LOL! That about sums it up.
I've read that for Krohns, intestinal parasites can work wonders. It seems hardly anyone in third world countries suffer Krohns, in part because they are allowed to "suffer" from worms and parasites that we hygienic, scrupulously sanitary people over-protect ourselves from. Babies with cats and dogs in the house (dander! germs!) have fewer allergies than the babies raised in sterile environments. go figure....
One thing I can be sure of is that my kids picked up plenty of those healthy germs! No over protection here!
Their father had crohns, and his father and brother. Clearly there is a genetic component, but I am certain the vaccines triggered the gene's expression so early in their lives.
Vaccines can trigger the epigenetic switch to turn on Crohns?
Oh dear.
I'm a fan of dirt and germs, within reason (no thanks to e-coli)! - but I also tend to trust vaccines. I grew up in awe of modern medical science and aspired to be a doctor. Turns out, being a wtich doctor might have been more up my alley. (Any career in medicine was beyond my math skills.) Herbalists, holistic healers - they're sounding better every year. (Except, they always suggest cutting out sugar. As in totally. No!!!!)
Honey, honey!!! Honey is the end all be all sweetener. Sugar has nothing on honey, except for meringue. And you can eat all you want! It's actually good for you! I love honey. Honey in the morning, honey at noon, honey at night. There is never enough honey, honey.
Once upon a time I was a pastry chef. I lived for pastry, especially chocolate pastry. Now I almost never eat sugar. I still eat chocolate though. Now and then.
Crohn's is a disorder of the immune system. A vaccine's purpose is to confuse the immune system. autoimmune diseases are on a terrible rise, and the rise corresponds to that of vaccination. autoimmunity is now the only accepted reason to get a medical exemption. so, yeah, definitely related, even the government thinks so.
Honey is already a staple of my diet - one of the basic food groups! - and I have drastically cut back on sugar. Gluten intolerance + dairy + egg = an autoimmune issue, maybe? The smallpox vaccine was revolutionary. It was also much simpler (purer?) than today's injections. Hmmmm. Time for cinnamon/chamomile tea with honey, and no more thinking! :)