Perhaps no section title for this site is more oxymoronic than this one, which combines medicine and health. For now this name will hold the space for information related to human health—both ill and good—and the unavoidable intersection with the practice of medicine.
The misfortune for many of us dealing with chronic disease, pain and depressed physical and mental performance is that we are conditioned to seek help from medical professionals, who in turn have been conditioned and trained to intervene with toxic pharmaceutical drugs, radiation-based imaging, a fixation on blood markers, and invasive surgical treatments.
It is not difficult to confuse these types of medical interventions with health. That system has even had the audacity to call itself the health care industry.
Genuine health is not an industry. It is a series of conscious lifestyle choices involving nearly every aspect of life, from where we life to what we eat to how we interact with others in the human race.
Some of my AIDS dissident friends reject outright the tests used by mainstream AIDS (AIDStream) doctors to evaluate ‘HIV-positive’ patients and to determine if and when to start treating them with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), more commonly known as the “AIDS cocktail” of drugs. While I agree with them that we can’t know…
Thank gawd for friends willing to help me get back on the road! Several caring close friends and family have asked me to remove my last post, mostly out of their concern for my own health and well-being. What good is having friends if I’m not willing to trust them to see what I…
If you Google “intravenous vitamin c fda” for the last 24 hours, you’ll see that an “action alert” from the Alliance for Natural Health has spawned dozens of copy cat “reports” on blogs and websites across the Internet in less than a day. Strategically, this may be a great way to put the FDA…
I remember little else, until I was in post-op, waiting to wake up enough for them to allow Michael to join me. I wrote off the look in his face as general concern and my own grogginess. Only later did I learn that he had just had his own, first encounter with Doctor, who told him that “it didn’t look good”, that I “probably had lymphoma”, and that I “would probably need chemo”. He was so distraught that he wasn’t even able to relate this news to me until after I had left the hospital the next day.
I just got the call from the infectious disease clinic informing me that the chest x-ray showed my lungs are “extended and clear”, with no sign of tuberculosis. Now it’s time to settle down and get back to our regular programming: just being healthy. No more tests, no more fearmongering.
In a previous post, I focused on the good news about learning that I do not have cancer. After several weeks of being increasing led to believe that because they were unable to explain the cause for the lumps in my parotid gland, doctors thought I must have lymphoma. Once that possibility was ruled…
I got the very good news this afternoon that the lumps in my jowl are not cancerous. I do not have words to describe the relief, and in fact, I’m not sure it has really sunk in yet. That’s how convincingly the doctors had led Michael and me to believe that I had some…
Kali and Bella are not impressed with the ER doctor’s compression bandage on my neck. I call it my hijab. I have sure been having second thoughts lately about publicly revealing so much about what’s going on with my health. It was pretty easy to write and blog when my health was improving and…
(photo by: JuanJ) I admit that I am an erratic blogger. When I started writing again a couple of years ago after a nearly decade-long break, there was a lot of pent-up inspiration to produce posts regularly. What exactly I wanted to write about has taken a few turns along the way as well,…
The notion that HIV exists is a farce. When energy is not able to move freely through your chakras (energy centers in the body that generate your physical form), illness can result. Negative thinking causes blockages in energy moving through the body which can lead to physical manifestations of disease in your body. Illness…
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While much of the information on this site is no longer current, it represents almost a decade of my life. It was a period of considerable reflection and writing was my therapy.
I have moved on from that era and am now moving into what will undoubtedly be the last chapter of my life. My love for writing and telling stories-mine, as well as those of others-goes with me. Join me, if you will, at jondbarnett.com for the adventure.
