stjames wrote:
> ...It will be intreresting to see what the Doc's on the list say but if a doc
> told me it was wise to test for an auditory tumor I would do whatever it
> took to get this test.
Hello all,
Sorry about this long ranting "off topic" thing, though it occurs to me that
health and the attendant "bigger" issues are truly relevant to
us whose interconnected, interdependent bodies, spirits and minds are our
instruments...
Thank you so much to James and Judy for your responses. I certainly concur
with James that I will endeavour to do what I have to do for my
health... From my own experiences and observations of so many others, this is
all too often "easier said than done"... Not to necessarily
"blow my own horn", but I write these words as a singer who just raised $1400,
doing a benefit concert for relatives involved in a kidney
transplant, $1400 which barely begins to meet all the expenses involved, very
little of which is actually covered by any medical insurance,
government or private... As I mentioned in my original post, there are "bigger
issues" here, i.e., universal access to health care that is
truly universal, that recognizes that the true meaning of health/healing is "to
make whole". In my worldview, a fully functioning human is
an integrated spiritbodymind with myriad diverse functions, rather as is the
universe as we know it, but as I love to say, "That's another
story..." :o)
The "Exploding Head Syndrome", previously described by Judy sounds interesting,
but I don't think I fit those symptoms... interesting
imagery suggested by the name...:o)
A couple other things about my situation have occurred to me. For some time
now, I have been battling an "Abscess from Hell" in one of my
teeth. After consulting with a dentist, an endodontist and my G.P, I
considered a root canal, but was advised that root canals can have
eventual toxic consequences, so I am now about to get an extraction and
hopefully eventually a bridge - "That will be another $2000, please
- ka-ching ka-ching..." I'm really trying not to get too "off topic" into
"other stories", as it were, but... Isn't it weird that there
is "medical" health, then there is "dental" health, with all the hoops through
which one is expected to jump - varying insurance schemes,
waiting periods, etc. - as though teeth, and for that matter, eyes, are not
considered by corporate governments, insurance plans, etc. to
be fully interdependent parts of functional humans...? There is this whole
corporate concept of health as a "commodity" to be sold in the
best interest of shareholders, so alien to me, versus health as a fundamental
universal human right... My new holistic G.P. mentioned that
my ear pain as well as many other longstanding challenges I face may be some
result of interconnectedness with my dental abscess (including
the havoc wreaked on my body by three courses of antibiotics...), as well as
deep seated mercury contamination from old leaking amalgam
fillings... or maybe it is a tumour or some weird combination...
I live in a psychotic consuming culture that spends $.25 billion to watch some
dude play baseball, billions on polluting Sport Utility
Cars and all their toxic infrastructure, Corporate America elects an oil man
who would spend billions more on drilling more oil to feed the
SUCs - while our leading scientists tell us our planet is critically ill with
human-caused global warming and myriad other global
pathologies ... aaak... rant rant rant...
Meanwhile, I cannot access a little medical tool that costs maybe just a couple
million or so, that might help to save my health/my
life...? Hello...?
To the tune of "Bein' Green": "It's not that easy being a green eccentric
introvert with a loud voice..."
To our health...
Michael
Michael Eckford <michaelb@i...>
Michael Eckford <michaelb@i...>
Victoria, BC, Canada
http://www.angelfire.com/me/interdependence/
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