Illness and It's Cures or Are They?

I love to write and complain sometimes but today is different. The world seems a little different itself. How I have not put my finger on but it is different. The grass is green and the dandelions have died back for a couple of weeks and the vegetable garden is planted and we are having a heat wave. It could be the weather but something is different.

 

I have had the awful cold for the last week and it has knocked me down and taken a toll for the worse and maybe today I just feel a little better or maybe just this moment I am not sure. But since I am on the topic of health here is a thought…just how many of us have been sick during this hot weather? It was unheard of to be sick in the heat when I was a child. It seems we did not get cold enough over the winter just past to help control the viruses or is that just a myth too?

There are so many myths surrounding health it is hard to know what is the truth and what is fiction. I personally like the one about tying onions to the feet of a person with a cold and it will draw out the infection and virus. Yes….I said it out loud tie an onion slice to the feet of an ill person the bottom of thee feet by the way. I can tell you one thing about onions they do seem to draw dirt and germs to them for some reason or another but to cure a cold seems just too far-fetched for me.

 

Here is a gross and very dangerous one. Feeding Tape Worms to someone to lose weight and clean the intestine. Obviously the worms grow in the intestines and absorb the food nutrients. How gross is that??? This is something I would never do or even recommend…..yuck!!!

So to cure a nose bleed it was suggested to drink whey and eat raisins. I am not sure what the logic behind this as it was not explained but it sounds kind of hokey to me. What does a raisin have to do with our noses???

Here is a personal favorite, to cure gout in the hand put a raw lean beef steak on it and change it every twelve hours until cured. Wow that is an expensive cure too bad the meat is not eatable afterwards!!!

How about bloodletting to drain an illness from the body. Just makes one weak and more ill as far as I am concerned. Good thing these practices are archaic and not used any more. We have come a long way with medical treatments and knowledge. Thank goodness….

I am sure the list goes on and on over crazy cures for illness. We had a neighbour who believed himself a healer of some sort and often practiced crazy folk lore medicine in his home. Nothing ever worked and they always wound up at the doctor’s office sicker than sick. Personal choice of course but to what end? We have such great medical knowledge now a days that we have no excuse for being silly. I mean come on onions on the feet….I cannot stop laughing!!!

That brings me to my thought on prevention of illness. We must remember that not everything is preventable and not everything is curable either. We are humans and we are fallible so why is it that we are still not immunizing our children??? I have read articles and listened to media reports and heard the schools talk about it too and how important it is to do this for the health of our children. And for the health of others that have medical reasons to not have immunizations because they may be life threatening. If you have not heard there is new research that has come out claiming that it is not the immunizations that are causing Autism it could be the over use of folic acid and B12 supplements that are having an adverse effect on the developing fetus. That is yet to be determined and studied in depth of course. http://www.ibtimes.com/what-causes-autism-new-study-links-folic-acid-mysterious-syndrome-affecting-child-2367590

But never mind my side ways rant, today is still a good day and tomorrow will be a good day too. The grass is still green and although I feel like hell the world still looks pretty good from where I am standing.

 

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Plastic and the Human Race.....Oil No Longer Black Gold But Toxic Disatster

 

Oh hum…..I could say I am bored but that would be incorrect. I could say I am frustrated and that would be closer to the truth. Or I could just say that I have once again had it with the human race and think we are all horrible nasty creatures that no longer deserve the beautiful planet that we have been given. How is that for an opener????

Lately I have been feeling tragic and not quite myself. I look around and see the problem of obesity and other illness and it make me angry at the human race. I listen to the news and hear that the war in the middle east had taken the life of another child, mother or group of you people and it makes me want to scream. I look at my neighbours and see the misunderstanding of the simplest things in life and then I hear the news a gain and see an oil spill and wonder when mankind is going to wake up and know what they are doing???

 

Our planet is alive and we are just an organism that is part of a greater life. But when you look at what we have done to what sustains human life you can call us the cancer of the planet Earth. From just a few decades ago, even thinking back to when I was a child, we have ravaged and destroyed our planet and for what???? Money???? Something man invented and holds more dear than life itself. How sad this makes me to know that it matters not at all to some people that our planet is being murdered. And the sickest thing of all….it is being murdered by them….

Now I am sure you are saying by this point what the hell and who does she think she is??? Well I do not think I am anybody as for a matter of fact I am less than anybody as no one knows my name and no takes me seriously so I am okay with that but what I am not okay with is the justification of destruction by the human race. We cannot ever get along with ourselves and we now have people specially trained to train others to be human at heart. I guess these people have forgotten to teach to be human at heart is to care about everything not just others. Everything includes animals, plants, the oceans and lakes not just ourselves in a toxic cess pool that we have created for ourselves and our children to live in and grow in as functional humans. Ever thought that we are dysfunctional for a reason??? How about this remove the humans and let the planet live. It did so very well for millions of years without the likes of us so what would change? We would simply vanish and any signs of us would grow over with greenery and flowers and the animals would live in the harmony they once had and the planet would survive.

Maybe this is all a really bad experiment gone wrong. I would hate to be the child with that science mark.

 

Clean it up people and stop buying plastic. Find other resources such as glass, waxed paper, or wooden products. We have exceeded our planet’s ability to renew the natural resources that we extract from it every year. What if someone did that to you??? How would you react??? What if you could not defend yourself???

 

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Being Stared At

 

The birds and the bees come out to play and so do the stares from people. I was in the bank today, yes I still go into the bank to do the odd transaction, think of me what you will I like to see a face when I am banking it is more personal. Anyways, I am being stared down by a woman twice my size and about four inches taller than I am. If you do not know me I am not very tall. This was intimidating and all I could do was to think in my head “what do you want?”

 

So I finfish my duties in the bank and leave the woman is at the teller and I still feel her eyes on me. So I turned and in my darkened aviators stared her down as I walked backwards out of the bank’s door. My final coop-de-gras was to salute her and smile, turn and walk to my truck. This entire scene, in my eyes, was completely uncalled for behaviour. Why would this person feel they needed to stare so long I became uncomfortable and then cocky?

I suppose it is human nature and I suppose we all at some time or another do things to make others uncomfortable. I mean I am sure I have had my fair share of foot in mouth disease from time-to-time. But I try to watch what I say and do. Although I have been known to be John Lennon type and dance down the street with my daughters in tow laughing our faces off and creating a scene that way. That is the most awesome thing ever. People have no idea how to react to people having clean, appropriate fun. I can’t wait to do that again with them. I cannot wait to see the reactions.

Dramatic or not behaviour is important and it is something most of us are taught to control. We have laws that govern our behaviour and consequences for breaking those laws and expectations that we follow as well. So why in all do we still stare at others??? Who knows it could be anything from the beautiful to the downright grotesque or even the odd or maimed. We stare for so many reasons to try and understand what we are seeing. I suppose it takes some of us longer to process the beauty or the ugly or the private and personal that we keep looking even to the point of rudeness. And that is the way I felt in the bank today that the woman was being rude. Who really knows as I did not have any desire to start a conversation with her and find out why she was doing what she was doing. This is where I may have become rude and said something I may have regretted. But I also have a big mouth at time and that is why you read this blog because I say things that some of us think and do not want to say.

I remember growing up and being taught not to stare at people and to keep my eyes on my own business. Sometimes I wonder if that message might get misconstrued somehow and instead of the little meaning it may have, about politeness, it gets blown into something big, like turn a blind eye when you witness a crime, do not get involved when you see something that maybe injurious to another or even turn a blind eye when someone may need help such as opening a door, reaching a product on a shelf, or carrying groceries in for an elderly neighbour. So is this a good think or a wrong thing? I am not so very sure in either direction. What I do know is that I was uncomfortable today by being stared at and let her know with my body language on the way out the door. But staring can be okay if it helps someone and you can do something about the situation. If not leave it alone there is probably nothing wrong to begin with.

By the way, I get stared at all the time!!!!! LOL!!!!!

 

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