Well, Out, I am glad to hear you have seen the light concerning Big Pharma and their poison pill factories. I'm pretty much of the same mindset as you.
In my case, it was observations of my wife's illness. She had a lump in her breast discovered by a mammogram, and it lead to her death. A leading breast surgeon cut it out, it was a "stage zero cancer," which means it wasn't really a cancer yet but might become one, so they cut out more around the site. Then she had some mild chemotherapy and about 7 weeks of hard radiation. They said they got it all, and maybe they did, but that wasn't the end of the story.
She was a nurse and the word cancer really scared her and I couldn't keep her from having this procedure done immediately rather than wait a while and watch what it did. About 5 years passed and she needed a hip replacement, but she couldn't recover fast enough from giving blood in a week, so she couldn't give the second batch to get a full reserve for the hip operation. That should have been a clue, but, as I came up needing a triple bypass we waited on her hip until I recovered.
When she tried again to get a reserve blood supply, she still couldn't give enough blood for a full reserve, but they did the hip surgery anyway. A year later, having recovered pretty well from the hip surgery, she became quite ill and ended up in the ER. It was determined that she had aggressive leukemia and she never came home again. She spent about four and a half months dying in the hospital, where they hurt her back in physical therapy, and that time was spent in severe pain whenever she moved.
We celebrated our fiftieth wedding anniversary in the hospital. I still miss her very much. I studied cancer heavily during this period, and one of my degrees is in physics. The oncologist would not let me give her any "natural" medicines that I had discovered, and I was too stupid to buck him on it. It later became my considered opinion that the radiation through her breast bones gave her the leukemia that killed her, and of course I couldn't prove it.
My take away from all of this was don't ever get in a hurry to do something these doctors tell you you should do. The medical system killed her in their rush to gain wealth, and I will never let them rush me into anything they can't absolutely prove to me that I need it, and then it will depend upon what it is that they think I need and the alternatives to letting it ride!
I take mostly over the counter "natural" medicines, and I'm doing quite well with that, but I do have to watch my bypasses for blockage. As far as I'm concerned the FDA and their poisons can go pound sand, they are not my friend, and my doctors really don't like it very much when I refuse their prescriptions and procedures, but it is me, or my insurance, that is paying the bill, so it is my decision. I'm nearly 80, and if I had thought I would ever live this long I might have taken better care of myself, but I feel good, drive, had my cataracts fixed (which made my arms shrink and now they are too short to let me read without glasses), get around without any assistance, and I can still run a chainsaw.
I'm not afraid of dying, and I believe I'll be dead until the end of time, but I still don't stand where the tree I just cut down is going to fall. When my number comes up, I just hope it is quick and painless, I don't want to lay there and vegetate, and be a burden for my sons, who can pour a fifth of good single malt Scottish Whiskey or single barrel Bourbon on my ashes if they strain it through their kidneys first! Since I detest funerals, they don't have to screw with that. Then they can put me in the double urn with my wife. After that, I doubt if I'll care much what they do with us. I hope I didn't bore you too much with my musings, I just wanted you to know that I think you're on the right path with your "natural" medications in spite of what the doctors and big pharma tell you.
Don't let the "Progressive Establishment" get you down! Have a great day!
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out of the woods wrote:
You are so right. I had a health emergency, not long ago, pneumonia, and ended up in the ER. Well first they killed me , briefly, with some medication, then they had me for a week and pumped me full of steriods and other poisons. They basically told me , I would need this stuff for the rest of my life, which they were certain would be short. Once I got home and recovered from their "treatment", I researched alternative, natural remedies on my own, and I am doing great, no meds, no side effects, I'm functioning and working, better than most 50 year olds. If I cut off a finger with my table saw I may visit a doctor, but frankly for anything else, forget it. Yes, they really don't like it when you say "no".
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