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April 7, 2010
Posted by Muhammad Cohen in: Accountability, Cap and Trade, Commentary, Communications, Congress, Current Events, Democrat, Healthcare, Marketing, Medical, Republican, Travel
 Republicans were for healthcare insurance mandates before they were against them – and the Obama White House missed it. [...]
March 11, 2010
Our body can’t perceive the difference between “saber-tooth tiger stress” and the “IRS is on the phone for you” stress. All it understands is that something is a kilter; we are under pressure and it reacts to deal with the problem. [...]
March 3, 2010
Posted by Muhammad Cohen in: Business, Business Management, Cancer, Congress, Current Events, Economic Crisis, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Interview, Medical, Wellness, World Issues
While politicians fiddle and patients get burned, Americans’ best bet for affordable, quality medical care right now is in Bangkok. [...]
November 17, 2009
The insurance companies are trying to screw us again. By us I mean women. Well mostly women. Some men get breast cancer too. Like Richard Roundtree, the one time Ebony model who was the original “Shaft” in the movies. And like the man who was in the room next to me last year having a mammogram when I had mine. He looked about 35. I was 57. Would he be dead now if the insurance companies had their way with a new study that recommends a change in testing for possible breast cancer? Continue reading The Distrubing New Study on Breast Cancer
October 4, 2009
I didn’t enter this world with any specific attitude towards the medical profession, so any opinions I now hold are entirely its own work.
As a child, especially as a child of the 1950s, you were used to adults paying you scant respect. For them, you as a child were merely a semi-trained adult. Consequently, they did not bother to disguise their underlying nature from you, and any child could have told you who were the deep-down kindly people and who were the rest (many animals can provide a similar service to this day).
However, even against this bleak landscape of general disdain, the medical profession stood out like the Spanish Inquisition. I could describe their collective attitude in one word – arrogant – or I could describe it in many – curt, rude, brutal, uncaring, cold, clinical, threatening, vain, pompous – but the overall message was clear: “You are not important. I don’t really have time for you and you are certainly not worth my time, but even though you don’t deserve it, I suppose …..” Continue reading Are all doctors Faustus?
October 3, 2009
Bob Ellal from this site has just written a book called ‘By These Things Men Live’ which is about his quadruple battle with cancer. That anybody should survive this recurrent battle at all is extraordinary. That s/he should do so and be a great raconteur into the bargain is even more amazing. Bob has got there and he has got beyond there.
Bob has completed his excellent book and is now trying to sell it. As the wise guy said “Anybody can write a book, but it takes a genius to sell it,” and part of the sales process will be for Bob to have a nice plump website full of thoughts about cancer.
These are mine. Please post some of your own so that Bob can add them to his website too.
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I have known a lot of people to die of cancer. I am talking personally here. Not about celebrities or friends of friends I have never met, but people I have spoken to or who are related to me.
Despite the statistics which supposedly show an ever-increasing success rate, that is not my personal experience. I watch films on DVD and I see hospitals positively gloating in bright, shiny, intelligent, irrefutable medical and surgical gizmos. They are not my experience of the real world either. Product placement is great, but it hasn’t reached any UK hospital near me. Continue reading Cancer – the great wake-up call
September 26, 2009
The facts about the Bird Flu, 911 and beyond reprinted in this article, which was in ConspiraZine magazine, and read on their radio show. are very relevant to the Swine Flu Vaccine scheme of today. The official plans currently are for vaccines to be ready Oct. 15th or sometime in December, depending on what they are going to do about adjuvant ingredients in the vaccines. Who knows what the future holds. Baxter’s Bird Flu vaccines contaminated with the Live Virus were discovered before they set off a pandemic with their vaccines. Now, they’re about to do it again, without needing to test normally, be transparent, or be liable. States are taking up the forced vaccine laws Read some of the history leading up to this here related to 911 and martial law and more.
from ConspiraZine Magazine–posted below:
911 and Avian Flu Legislation Were For the Sake of Martial Law: Just Say No to Mandatory Vaccines
In America, we may be on the verge of martial law, the current excuse being the threat of Avian Flu. While remaining calm, we do need to address this potential while we still have the freedom to do so. Perhaps we can stave it off if we look squarely at what is happening, and why. We have to look more deeply into the reality of vaccines, and why they are really being imposed upon us. We can look at 911 to realize that the government will use any deception to control us more. 911 didn’t work to bring total martial law, which is what it was intended to do, so bird flu is now being used to accomplish that state. Martial law is not being used as a last resort because of disaster out of our control. Martial law is the goal, and the disasters are hoisted on the public for the express purpose of making them give up their freedoms. Let’s not. Continue reading 911 and Avian Flu Legislation Were For the Sake of Martial Law: Just Say No to Mandatory Vaccines
September 16, 2009
Due to the long lifespan of people and the rigors of the diet, studies of calorie restriction in humans are ongoing and have yet to show that people live longer. Nonetheless, thousands of individuals now follow calorie restriction diets, hoping to discover what Ponce de Leon did not. [...]
September 13, 2009
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a group of symptoms indicating a malfunction of the bowel. Unlike celiac disease discussed in last week’s email, this is not an autoimmune “disease.” It is a “syndrome” which means a group of symptoms, the most common of which are cramping, abdominal swelling, discomfort or pain, spastic contractions of the colon, bloating, gas, whitish mucus in the stool, diarrhea, and/or constipation. [...]
September 13, 2009
Celiac disease is one of the most common chronic health disorders in the western world. It is also one of the most under and mis-diagnosed. Until recently, medical schools taught that celiac disease was relatively rare and only affected about 1 in 2,500 people. Recent studies and advances in diagnosis show that at least 3 million Americans, or about 1 in 133 people have celiac disease, but only 1-in-4,700 is ever diagnosed!
So what is celiac disease? It is an autoimmune disease that is caused by the genetic inability to digest gluten, which is the protein portion of many common grains – particularly wheat. This undigested protein then attacks the body’s immune system causing inflammation and damaging the small intestine. Damage to the small intestine results in the inability to absorb nutrients from your food, leading to malnutrition.
While celiac is considered a “digestive disorder” and the “classic” symptoms include weight loss, chronic diarrhea, bloating and abdominal pain, here’s the kicker – there are often a wide variety of symptoms that seem to be unrelated to digestion. They can range from anemia, dementia, infertility, bone pain, weakness/fatigue, mouth sores, dehydration, back pain, tooth enamel defects, irritability or depression. Many people who have been diagnosed with celiac disease actually report no symptoms at all! Continue reading Gluten: Friend or Foe?
September 13, 2009
In researching and writing about Candida, the scriptures in the Old Testament, particularly those in Exodus and Leviticus which talk about making offerings of cakes made without yeast came to mind. Yeast in these scriptures referred to sin. While having a yeast infection or overgrowth of Candida in no way indicates sin – it was telling to me how easily this fungus can invade our lives, much as sin can and does!
Back to the original subject, which is how to rebalance your system and get the good bacteria to outnumber the bad as it is supposed to.
Here are some simple things you can do: Continue reading Getting Rid of Candida
September 13, 2009
While the title of this article is a play on the first few words of an old Tony Orlando song, Candida is no laughing matter. Candida albicans is a common, fungal form of yeast that lives in a moist, warm environment. It’s believed that Candida is present in at least 90% of people. It grows most commonly on the mucus membranes of the gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts in our bodies. However, it can grow almost anywhere in your body and cause problems. [...]
September 13, 2009
Bob Ellal’s ‘By These Things Men Live’ comes with a sucker punch in the final chapter (no, he doesn’t snuff it) but I shall declare my conclusion immediately. It is exquisite.
It plays towards one of my prejudices and against another.
The one it plays towards is my preference for novellas. You probably know the reply of the writer who was asked why his book had come in at seven hundred pages – “Because I didn’t have time to write a shorter one.” Bob did have time and it shows. He obviously even had time to really screw it up, but he didn’t – he polished it to a diamond instead, a blood diamond.
The prejudice he has confounded is my expectation of what a chemo-and-tell autobiography might play like. I was expecting a lot of trauma, a lot of drama, tears, emotions tumbling off the shelf, and long, lingering, mawkish thank yous to anyone and everyone he had ever met amid his endeavours to overcome his fate. While I would have been whole-heartedly sympathetic to anybody who had to go through that lot, this would have been a book I could have put down, and would have put down, easily. Continue reading Review of SWI’s own Bob Ellal’s ‘By These Things Men Live’
September 12, 2009
This maybe the year that I get a flu vaccination. I’ve never had one and during those years when the flu was raging never caught it. My elderly mother has already had hers, my husband might get one since he ended up with the flu- a different strain I promised him- two weeks after the shot. All in all I am for preventive measures when it comes to any kind of disease, but I am not always in favor of medications. They may help, most don’t cure and the side effects are killing us while the drug cartels get rich. Continue reading Side Effects- Do We Really Need All These Drugs?
September 9, 2009
OK, so the headline is taken from a joke made by the UK satirical magazine Private Eye about early developments in IVF treatment, but the saying is increasingly applying to other areas of medicine as well.
Over the last 20-30 years there has been a quiet miracle in medicine. Surgeons would have you believe that it has taken place in their theatre of operations and to some significant extent they are correct. Minimally intrusive ‘key hole’ surgery has come a long way and has greatly benefited patients. Pharmaceutical companies would have you believe that it is down to their developments in drugs. Actually, this is fairly questionable. Yes, of course, there have been some developments, but largely they are in the muddled direction of one step forward, one step back. Nearly all drugs have side-effects and some of them are about as bad as the disease they set out to cure. Taking a drug is less to take a step down the road to recovery as to set off a chain reaction which could lead you anywhere.
The huge revolution is elsewhere. It is quiet not because it is unknown but because it is largely unintelligible and therefore rejected by the medical establishment, and consequently by the press, and it is a revolution because in many respects it has not moved forward but more around to what we knew before.
Many of the problems of ill-health over the centuries can be explained by one thing – starvation. When you do not have even the basic nutrients, your system collapses. When it collapses, you have no building blocks to put it back together again. Continue reading And you won’t even feel a little prick ….
September 8, 2009
 By Alan Caruba
The most troubling aspect of President Obama’s insistence on so-called healthcare reform is the way the proposed changes will harm the interests of those on Medicare or Medicaid, all 65 years and older.
In the interest of “reform” it is clear that healthcare for the elderly will be rationed in terms of what will be covered with age a factor in whether one’s life will be saved or not through medical procedures.
Americans are now living to an average age of 78 and, of course, many are living much longer. My Mother lived to 98 and my Father to 93. Both required medical procedures towards the end of their lives and, good Democrats that they were, both appreciated the protection and benefits offered by Medicare.
I am just shy of age 72 and quite healthy. Given the genes passed onto me by both parents, I expect to live at least another twenty years, but more importantly, I expect to be writing that long as well.
I got to thinking that many now officially considered “old” at 65 made considerable contributions, often based on the fact that age had equipped them with invaluable experience. Continue reading Old is not “Dead”
September 4, 2009
Posted by dacipha in: Accountability, African-American, Attitude, Cancer, Diet, General Topics, Habit Change, Health & Fitness, Medical, Opinion, Uncategorized, Weight loss, Wellness
You must have heard the song, “Just a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down in a most delightful way!” I can clearly hear Julie Andrews sing this as ‘Mary Poppins’. But I want to tell you about something else that might not go down so delightful but it will act as a medicine going down!
Do you know that a teaspoon of Apple Cider Vinegar can help you live a longer life? In the age of plastic surgery this may be difficult to grasp. How can something so insignificant have an awesome effect on your life? Well give me the chance to explain.
I was told a story by my fiancée that changed my entire belief about apple cider vinegar forever! One day my fiancée went to see his Ophthalmologist to purchase another pair of glasses. After his eye examination, the eye doctor asked him a question. He asked, “How old do you think I am?” My significant other replied, “You must be around 65.” The Ophthalmologist responded, “No, I am 80 years old. The secret is to have a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar once a day.” My husband came home and told me the news immediately. He did his research and concluded that we should purchase some right away! Continue reading Just a Spoon full of……..Apple Cider Vinegar
September 3, 2009
Pfizer has just been fined for the FOURTH time since 2002 for various violations, some of which have left people dead from their drugs. What do they get? A fine, a slap on the wrist. I want to know how much Pfizer made on Bextra. I’ll bet it was more than the fines. And [...]
September 2, 2009
 By Alan Caruba
On Sunday, I managed to “throw my back out”, something I do every few years; a muscle spasm that had nothing to do with lifing something heavy. Just whammo! I took some pain pills I had in the cabinet from a previous problem and on Monday morning I called my physician. By Noon I was in her office and receiving new prescriptions for pain pills and muscle relaxants. An hour later I had the pills in hand,
By this morning, Wednesday, I am thoroughly on the mend, though it will probably take until Friday before I am back to normal again. Thanks to Medicare, my pills cost me just over $10.00. My visit to the doctor will be covered as well.
So, tell me, what is it that needs to be “reformed” in the current system? And how long would it have taken to see my doctor under Obama’s socialized healthcare?
The current Medicare/Medicaid system is running out of money, but “reforming” it to a point where I would likely have had to wait a very long time to see my doctor is absurd. Continue reading Does Medicare Need Reform?
September 1, 2009
Posted by Antonio de la Vega in: Cancer, Education, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Latino & Hispanic, Lifestyle, Medical, Mexico, Native American, Nature/Wildlife, Nutrition, Religion, Self-Help, Sex, Social Aspects, Social Classes, Social Issues, Sociology
Recientemente la Universidad Autónoma de México (U.N.A.M.) presentó el resultado de un esfuerzo monumental, consistente en la construcción de una enciclopedia multimedia especializada en la medicina tradicional mexicana. [...]
August 31, 2009
Posted by Bob Grant - Editor in: Accountability, Business, Congress, Current Events, Democracy, Economics, Foreign Affairs, Governance, Marriage, Medical, Opinion, Politics, Relationships, Religion, Social Issues
Whether it is in personal, or business matters, I have always tried to conduct myself where “My Word” matters. If I say something – promise something – commit to something – I give “My Word” and try to follow through with my commitments. I bothers me tremendously, when for one reason or another, I [...]
August 27, 2009
On December 7, 1994 I took my wife to the hospital for a biopsy on a lump in her right breast. She went into the operating room at 7:30. Around 9:00, the doctor who did the procedure came out of the operating room. I stood up and asked him how the operation went. He responded that it went very well and that Barbara was fine, but still under the influence of the anesthesia. When I asked him what was next he suggested that we go into a private room where we could talk. We went into a small TV room just off the hallway. During our conversation I asked him to explain to me the procedures that he used to take the biopsy. He went into detail and said that he removed a piece of the tumor about the size of a quarter. He went on to say that the sample would have to be sent to a pathology lab for complete analysis. I asked him what it looked like, and he responded that it looked like a malignant tumor. In fact he added that if the pathology report came back negative, that he would order another biopsy. I had a huge knot in my stomach at that point. I tried to remain logical and unemotional. The results from the pathology lab three days later confirmed that it was cancer. Shock and despair mixed together to envelop me in a cocoon of self-pity at that moment. Although I was thrown into a very serious situation, totally void of background knowledge on how to deal with it, I decided that I would develop a strategy to best deal with what I had just been handed. Continue reading THINGS THAT BREAST CANCER HUSBANDS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WITHIN THE FIRST 48 HOURS OF DIAGNOSIS
August 21, 2009
Posted by AngelaPoseyArnold in: Accountability, Attitude, Biography & Memoir, Book Marketing Online, Books, Family, General Topics, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Inspiration & Motivation, Marriage, Medical, Relationships, Religion, Social Aspects, Social Issues, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Wellness, Women's Perspective, Working Women, Workplace
By the time she arrived he had seen, diagnosed, and treated at least ten patients sometimes forgetting to charge them. Francie arrived to find her work cut out for her for the day. They worked all day sometimes without a break until dark, or until the last patient was seen whichever came first. [...]
August 13, 2009
 By Alan Caruba
Not long ago I published a list of elements of the original Obamacare bill that upset a lot of people who accused me of publishing lies about it, but the original bill—now something in the area of five different versions that the Senate and House will consider on their return—was every bit an abomination as the new ones.
Since then, a lot more people have undertaken the trial of reading the more than 1,000 pages intended, we’re told, to “reform” healthcare in America. One of them is Dr. Stephen Fraser. He recently wrote his Senator Evan Bayh (D) citing page by page why the current version of Obamacare is not a reform, but a total corruption of our current system.
Here are just a few of four pages of citations that will doom healthcare in America while putting the federal government in charge of the most intimate aspects of everyone’s lives.
Page 22 of the HC Bill: Mandates that the government will audit books of all employers that self insure!!
Page 30 Sec 123 of HC bill: THERE WILL BE A GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get.
Page 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill: YOUR HEALTH CARE IS RATIONED!!! Continue reading The Obamacare Abomination
July 17, 2009
 By Alan Caruba
The utter insanity of our leaders in Washington, D.C. is exemplified in Vice President Joe Biden’s statement to a recent meeting of the AARP. “We have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt.”
Just how does one do that? If, as Biden says, the nation is “going to go bankrupt”, how does spending more money achieve solvency? I am not an economist, but I thought one avoided bankruptcy by spending less. It would be more accurate to say that the Obama administration and the Democrat-controlled Congress is bent on bankrupting the nation by taxing more and spending more.
The current so-called healthcare reform is a perfect example of how crazed these people are. While on one hand denouncing “torture”, the healthcare bill would institutionalize it.
As Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D., an author of several consumer advocacy books, points out, “Water boarding, holding someone’s head underwater until he thinks he’s drowning, is called torture when done to terrorists, but $400 billion in Medicare cuts as part of the new government healthcare ‘reform’ may end up causing a horrible and frightening death for our sickest senior citizens.”
One stated method by which Congress proposes to save money is to deny hospital readmission within 30 days to someone suffering congestive heart failure (CHF). “If not treated rapidly, CHF causes a person to die by drowning in his or her own body fluids. Not okay for terrorists, but okay for our own citizens?” Continue reading Healthcare “Reform” Sanctions Torture, Death
June 17, 2009
Death in the Control Group
Something has been bothering me for a long time: the fate of people and animals who are on the wrong end of a scientific control group. Here’s a piece from the NY Times for June 17 about the loss of control in people’s lives:
In a study of elderly nursing home patients , one group was told they could decide how their room would be arranged, and could choose a plant to care for. Another group had their rooms set up for them and a plant chosen and tended to for them. Eighteen months later 15 percent of the patients in the group given control had died, compared with 30 percent in the passive group.
Now I’m pretty sure that the psychologists running this little experiment had a pretty good idea what they were looking for and even what the result would be. I’m thinking about the 15% of the people in the passive group who died because they were not given any control over their environment, that is, assuming that the other 15% would have died just in the course of the time allotted for the experiment. Continue reading Death in the Control Group
June 13, 2009
 By Alan Caruba
President Obama has never met a crisis he didn’t love; particularly the ones that involve spending trillions of dollars. What fun it is to propose programs that involve borrowing or taxing Americans to death.
On June 9, the Associated Press reported, “President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed budget rules that would allow Congress to borrow tens of billions of dollars and put the nation deeper in debt to jump-start the administration’s emerging health care overhaul.”
Since the stealth heathcare “reform” that Bill and Hillary Clinton tried to foist on Americans during the 1993-94 Congress, this “crisis” has been off the radar screen of Americans who have the audacity to think they should decide whether and how much health insurance they want and to expect healthcare that is not rationed on the basis of how old they are and other factors determined by some faceless government bureaucrat.
Liberals obsess over healthcare options because, of course, they want “fairness” no matter how much it will cost Americans in general and the economy in particular.
To that end, various “progressive” (liberal) groups have gotten together and have launched an $82 million campaign to support President Obama’s healthcare program.
The umbrella for this massive public brainwashing is called Health Care for America Now. Why is it that everything Obama wants has to be done “now”? Oh yes, I forgot. It’s a “crisis.” Continue reading The Real Crisis is Obamacare
June 12, 2009
You read the directions, you follow the instructions to the letter and still you end up in pain. That’s exactly what happened to me this morning while attempting to get ready for the dreaded bathing suit season. I used a well known depilatory that I had used many times before and applied it gently to parts of my body. 90 seconds later my armpits are in agony and there was not quick way to alleviate the pain. What didn’t the label tell me? Continue reading What the Labels Don’t Tell You
May 5, 2009
 By Alan Caruba First of all, it’s not the “Swine flu”, it’s the Mexican flu. That’s the nation where it mutated into a combination of swine, avian and just plain flu. Mexico is a place that exports people, drugs, and now this new strain of flu.
Second, you can avoid it by washing your hands. In fact, washing your hands is one of the best ways to avoid any virus or bacteria that might have bad intentions. Not all bacteria are bad however because our bodies teem with bacteria that perform very useful functions.
Third, pay as little attention to the media as possible. While in the process of dying from a total lack of credibility newspapers, along with much of the broadcast media, have been doing their best to frighten everyone with reports of worldwide pandemics that we are assured will kill thousands, if not millions. Continue reading The Flu By Any Name
April 28, 2009
 Jose Antonio De La Vega Torres http://indiciosmagazine.wordpress.com/ is one of our valued contributors who lives in Mexico and posts his articles in Spanish. I wrote to him asking him how he was doing and for his comments on the Swine Flu from his perspective in Mexico. With his permission are his comments below:
“Easy, man. Easy. Thanks for asking. Just taking care about hygiene, essentially washing hands, take some physical distance among the others, avoiding congregation, going to physician if suspect some symptoms like heavy head ache, dry coughing, high temperature over 39 degrees (centigrade) or equivalent in Fahrenheit, muscles and articulations aches, eyes irritation. And the most important, be calm. As we say in Mexico “we are cured of fright”. We had experienced worst problems at the past, and the population has behave exemplarly as they did other times like the earthquake in 1985, or the climate disasters. My people is full of hart, thinking on their childrens. The cases indeed are arising, affecting spetially to young people among 20 and 55 years old, but there are no such deads to feel panic. Every one is doing what is under the self responsability, if I said the wright way. Continue reading Swine Flu – A comment from our Contributor in Mexico
April 27, 2009
Mosquitoes: Just Waiting to Kill You 
By Alan Caruba
I’ll bet you didn’t know that the American Mosquito Control Association (AMCA) held its 75th annual meeting in New Orleans in early April. It had nearly one thousand attendees according to the report out of its Mount Laurel, New Jersey headquarters.
As a youngster, almost as long ago as when the AMCA was founded, I can recall the torment of New Jersey’s mosquitoes. During the spring and throughout the summer, they were ever present. These days it is a rare occasion to find one buzzing around inside one’s home or apartment. Why is that? Continue reading Mosquitoes: Just Waiting to Kill You
April 25, 2009
Standing behind the tall, stiff, elderly man at the pharmacy I realize how lucky I am. The foundation I work for gives us the option to have a high deductible insurance plan and a card to pay for the prescriptions and services until that deductible is met. I am not completely savvy on how it works but I do know the medication I take went from $25 to $52 and finally to $94 once this plan kicked in. This does not come out of my pocket. It is one of the benefits of my job. The old man in front of me who keeps backing up and barely missing my toes doesn’t have the same option.
The clerk tells him the amount due for his prescription, not covered by Medicare of Medicaid, is $70 and he says nothing for a moment. From behind I wonder if he has gone to sleep but he is actually calculating his finances. “Can I get half of that?” he finally asks. She smiles and tells him to take a seat while she goes off to arrange it. He walks slowly to the chairs and sits down with great effort. The stiffness in his body, his legs and arms is not just from age but from a changing climate- one not for the better. More people, young, old, middle aged, have to make a decision when it comes to medication- should I buy it or should I eat? Medicine costs far too much. Continue reading The Cost of Medications
April 24, 2009
Posted by Tina Rae Collins in: Attitude, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Humor, Inspiration & Motivation, Lifestyle, Medical, Motivation, Religion, Self-Help, Spirituality, Wellness, Women's Perspective
A friend who runs complained recently about chafing. It occurred to me that I never chafe–never have and probably never will. Why? My mama done told me many years ago. “Be thankful you’re bowlegged,” she said, “because when you aren’t, your legs rub together and you chafe.” A blessing to be bowlegged! Who would have thought!
While walking this morning, I got to thinking that the most unattractive circumstances can present great blessings. I began to think of such blessings in my own life.
I am twice divorced and thrice married. What a blessing! Hard to recognize the blessing in that? Any heartache that we suffer gives us strength and new insights. And with divorce comes the joys of new courtship, new love, new family members, and a new adventure–not to mention new lessons learned. Continue reading The Blessing of Being Bowlegged
April 2, 2009
For all you science buffs and medical types– If you look up laminin in any scientific/medical piece of literature, this is what you will see… [...]
March 25, 2009
The Great Medical Debate
Free Market Medical Care in China
Or
What’s Good for Americans is also Good for the Chinese
If you are thinking of traveling to China consider what it might cost if you have a major medical emergency. To understand what is going on in China, and the United States for that matter, let’s step back a couple of thousand years and examine what happened during the Han Dynasty. Continue reading The Great Medical Debate – Medical Care in China
March 11, 2009
Cured in Spite of Modern Medicine
By al d squitieri,sr
EXCERPT:
To those fortunate ones enjoying good health, and full ability, count it a blessing. I was not born disabled, but became one of “them”, and I found myself asking for a fair shake. Ponder this the next time you look down on a disabled person, or feel annoyed by their inconvenient presence:
but for the Grace of God, it could be you being “challenged”. Continue reading Cured in Spite of Modern Medicine
March 6, 2009
Posted by John Joss in: Biography & Memoir, Creative Writing, Freelance Author, Health & Fitness, Inspiration & Motivation, Journalism, Medical, Philosophical Genres, Self-Help, Spirituality, The Writer's Corner, Writing Essentials
Returning to my ship on my motorcycle, I was run over and almost killed by a truck that turned in front of me, without signaling. There wasn’t a mark on the truck but it inflicted severe injuries: a shattered left leg, a broken left arm, a fractured skull and a broken back. I was not expected to live.
After a year, 11 major operations and months of physical therapy, my Navy career in doubt, I risked ending up ‘on the beach’ without work. One incident in my long recovery enabled me to survive: a Marine D.I. Sergeant who had lost an eye and a foot in a similar accident salvaged his career by turning to physical therapy for injured service personnel. Like many enlisted men, he loathed officers.
After nine months in casts, I was freed to attempt a ‘walker’ and stationary bicycle—crushing for a 20-year-old former athlete. I was doing badly, knee and ankle ‘frozen’ into immobility. Every step on that leg was agony; I couldn’t turn the bicycle pedals. Continue reading Surviving a near-death experience
February 27, 2009
Every moment of every day I am reminded of how fat I am. I weigh 354 pounds. I’m not fat all over, like some people with extra chins and fat, jiggley arms. I am fat mostly in the middle and upper torso. My stomach is enormous and my thighs rub together when I walk. [...]
February 25, 2009
For a big part of my life I have anticipated menopause. I mean, anticipated as in looked forward to. Sound strange? Well, it wouldn’t if you knew how cold I’ve been most of my life.
But I had hope for brighter days. I knew that someday, in the not-too-distant future, menopause would hit and [...]
February 12, 2009
“The tumor is malignant.” Those were the four words spoken by Doctor Don Colacchio in 1992 that changed my life forever. The tumor that he referenced was in the right breast of my wife, Barbara Brown. She had inflammatory breast cancer; one of the most rare and fastest spreading types.
After initial consultation with [...]
February 4, 2009
Posted by AngelaPoseyArnold in: Children, Education, General Topics, Inspiration & Motivation, Medical, Non-Fiction, Religion, Self-Help, Short Stories, Social Issues, Spirituality, The Writer's Corner, Uncategorized
“God’s miracle baby, there is no other way to explain it.” He called in other doctors and interns and had her walk up and down the hall. Then he would say to them, “this is the power of praying parents and grandparents, never discount prayer.” [...]
January 28, 2009
The Buddha said, “Let death be your greatest teacher.” I often wondered what that meant, until I had to face death in the form of terminal cancer. Then I knew. Carpe diem. Seize the day? No, that’s not good enough—seize the hour, seize the minute, seize the second and split it like an atom–treat [...]
January 1, 2009
Everybody is familiar with the word “cancer.” When people hear it, they cringe, because they know what it means: months or years of pain caused by the disease as well as intolerable sickness. a side effect of the chemotherapy and/or radiation. But not too many people are familiar with the word “qigong.” It’s a [...]
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High life shattered by addiction
by Tyree Harris
Jerret Hooey, 22, said he usually slept in until about 1 p.m., but on one night last October he awoke at 4 a.m. by an all too familiar aching: He was fiending for a high.
Hooey made his way to the bathroom with his mind set on heroin.
As his body demanded, he opened a bag of dope and put several little pieces onto tinfoil, lit it and smoked it using a hollow ink pen.
For now, his fixation was suppressed, but the relief was short-lived.
A loud banging on the door began — it was the FBI.
Hastily, Hooey sprinted to his clothes room and grabbed as much of his stash as he could.
If he didn’t get his stuff down the toilet — fast — he would be caught red-handed. Continue reading High life shattered by addiction