Abandon the western medical system. It is ineffective and corrupt.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, my dad would say.
Day 1023: 5 Minute Freewrite: Sunday - Prompt: medicine man
Abandon the western medical system - Words of Wisdom from... no, not a medicine man. From a woman, #naturalmedicine hive member 
One five-minute freewrite is not enough time for me to talk about Owasco.
She knows herbal remedies, of course, and shares her recipes (bone broth for one), shares her poems and even video clips of her acting and singing. I love her reading of the poem she wrote in tribute to her dying husband. I hate hearing how their son is an invalid (apparently as a result of "vaccine injury," one of many terms new to me but all too familiar to Owasco.)
The world is disassembling but she remains a voice of hope and reason. E.g., here's a post from two days ago (oops, I didn't see it until today!):
Let us all come together joyfully, singing for love, instead of staying at home alone, fearful of an invisible enemy.
Duly note: this one has successfully hyperlinked
Her home is under fire (to speak)
due to legal issues, and she wants to buy her family's estate on a lake (how much ya wanna bet the lake is named Owasco?), and she's living near what is left of New York, the city, the great, great, teeming mass of humanity immortalized by the Statue of Liberty raising her beacon: Give your tired, your hungry, your poor... give me your artists, musicians, poets, free spirits... New York was home to the biggest melting pot, the most diverse peoples of our nation, but along came COVID-19, and live music was banned. Businesses closed. Doors slammed shut, people were locked up in quarantine, and when they did venture out, they were masked.
Um, why am I writing this in past tense? THIS IS STILL GOING ON.
It blows my mind.
#MindBlown
What really blows my mind is the medical system in the U.S., the ways it has gone downhill when it was never really Top of the Hill care to begin with. I mean, since 1985, I've seen specialists. Vestibular migraine may be the diagnosis nobody ever gave me, no matter how time and money they wasted, no matter how many MRI, CT, pills, or procedures they put me through.
Long, long, long story made short, I made the long drive to Omaha to see a specialist Monday, and at the eleventh hour, he CANCELED my appointment. Apparently he thought I was seeking a SECOND OPINION (I was prepared to squander up to a thousand dollars on this ENT and more, if he agreed with Quack #1 that my sphenoid sinus needs to be surgically drained), but he threw me aside.
I know when I've been insulted! I know when I've been insulted!
Which raises a question:
"Yes, a doctor may refuse to examine you for
or give you a second opinion: you may have a right to seek one, but that does not require any particular or individual doctor to see you. You need to find a doctor who will willingly do this; doctors are allowed to decide who to see, and who not to see, as patients."
The syntax sucks, but ok, yeah, a lawyer wrote this.
Hello: I wanted more than an opinion; I was going to let this doctor perform surgery on my head... cut into my skull... because he was so highly recommended by a trusted friend.
THIS IS REALLY ANNOYING.
A four-hour drive to a CANCELED appointment.
Wow. My reputation precedes me? I'm a patient nobody wants? I am the Patient from Hell! Bwa ha ha!
I am not alone.
As Owasco wrote eleven days ago (and yes, ahem, I'm only today finding this post),
I spend hours and hours gathering videos, studies, essays, articles etc regarding corona virus and posting them on FB. I have my loyal followers there to be sure, but most of my real life friends have unfriended me or even gone so far as to block me. You see, I am a liberal, a 47 year registered Democrat, who does not hate Donald Trump with an irrational passion, and who knows we are in the midst of the greatest crime against mankind in history. Please watch that video, which is both hilarious and painfully all too true. "It's hard to take Macron seriously when he is wearing half a bra on his face."
Not even gonna mention the storm
back home, the (dechero)[https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12369987/derecho-storm-gales-midwest-chicago-michigan-illinois/], the fallen trees, the husband home alone with no power.
Oh what the hell, I hafta at least hint at what I missed out (and will continue to miss) as long as I remain in Omaha.
[‘Derecho’ storm brings 100mph gales ripping through riot-hit Chicago leaving ‘50 injured’ and a million without power]
(https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12369987/derecho-storm-gales-midwest-chicago-michigan-illinois/)
Oh hell no, more hyperlinking glitches! Eeep!!!
[‘Derecho’ storm brings 100mph gales ripping through riot-hit Chicago leaving ‘50 injured’ and a million without power]
(https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12369987/derecho-storm-gales-midwest-chicago-michigan-illinois/)
A RARE ‘derecho’ storm with 100mph winds tore through the Midwest, leaving more than 1.1million still without power on Tuesday morning and at least 50 people hospitalized with injuries.
That's it!
I'm done with modern medicine, western medicine, the news, the weather, the power grid, the powers that be, the people who ignore me or blow me off. From here on out, I"m....
Feeling saucy, I am,
Like the furball in this drawing by our middle child, Claire, when she was in middle school.
At Facebook and among family, I've been feeling largely ignored by most of the people I have taken interest in, followed, friended, read, blogged about (thank you Harvey, Bill, John, Heidi, Stacey, Ken, John McC, and other author friends for hanging with me), but - but - but - so help me God, I am feeling fine as me.
Knowing I should "put up and shut up" , one of my dad's best phrases, along with
"Things is rough all over."
Also knowing I will never shut up because I keep insisting that whatever captures my imagination and holds my attention should appeal to others, so I'll keep flooding Facebook as if it were my own personal journal (which essentially it is) and not caring if anyone else sees or likes or mad-faces me.
I'm ok.
I laughed at the Wayne Dwyer books (I'm ok, you're ok) but in the end, I just gotta be me 'cause there ain't nothing else I can be (without a lobotomy or some such).
Feelin' Fine!
Laughter is the Best Medicine, so I'm watching the chicken yodeler on You-Tube, and reading about derechos and Quaking Aspens (to replace our fallen pines).
Oh come on, you know you want to know all about Quaking Aspen monocultures:
A stand or group of aspen trees is considered a singular organism with the main life force underground in the extensive root system. Before a single aspen trunk appears above the surface, the root system may lie dormant for many years until the conditions are just right, including sufficient sunlight. In a single stand, each tree is a genetic replicate of the other, hence the name a “clone” of aspens used to describe a stand.
Older than the massive Sequoias or the biblical Bristlecone Pines, the oldest known aspen clone has lived more than 80,000 years on Utah’s Fishlake National Forest. Not only is the clone the oldest living organism, weighing in at an estimated 6,600 tons, it is also the heaviest. Even if the trees of a stand are wiped out, it is very difficult to permanently extinguish an aspen’s root system due to the .....
Where did everyone go?