What Has Happened to Our Rights?
This is one of those “where my thoughts took me…” articles, so hang in there with me!
Friday evening our 14 year old cat was suddenly in pain and had trouble walking. I sat on the floor with her, and had the sensation of harsh pinching in her front leg.
It was after office hours, so my husband brought her to the emergency clinic. A few hours later he returned home with a slightly woozy cat (a small dose of morphine for the pain).
The doctor told him that our cat threw a blood clot (which is very painful) and that her heart rate was 210 beats/minute and they heard a heart murmur. Our cat was sent home with heart medicine (beta-blocker / anti-arhythmic) to slow her heart rate down, to be given three times a day; and we had instructions for low dose aspirin regiment for the blood clot.
Come Saturday, I reluctantly gave her the first dose of heart medicine – everything in me screamed that this was wrong! However, I had never ‘felt’ a blood clot before…maybe the doctor was right.
Sunday morning, I gave her another dose of heart meds and a small dose of aspirin (as per the doctor’s instructions). Again, I couldn’t give her the three times a day heart med dose.
On Monday, I brought our cat to her regular vet. Diagnosis? Heart was fine; no sign of a blood clot.
I explained to the doctor that I had a hard time giving her the meds as prescribed by the emergency vet. She said it was probably a good thing I hadn’t.
She also said that something may have been pinched – or that perhaps she had arthritis and hurt herself when jumping down from the couch earlier, especially since she was overweight – causing more stress on her joints.
Our cat starts her diet tonight and her heart meds were donated for those who really need it and cannot afford it.
This experience led my thoughts to:
I have one leg slightly shorter than the other, so I have orthotic inserts to balance me out.
I have been doing great for over a year, and suddenly couldn’t walk right and had back and hip pain.
The wonderful man who does my orthotics asked me what have I been doing to mess my feet up? I really hadn’t a clue.
He then told me that he has found hormone imbalances can, in essence, reshape the foot.
My jaw dropped. I told him that my thyroid meds have been discontinued and this has messed me up.
That led my thoughts to:
The FDA has recently decided to ram-rod the natural pharmaceuticals. The consequences? My and countless others, meds are no longer available. The FDA has removed them.
My meds are no longer available, compliments of the FDA, and my body is not in good shape.
Why has the FDA interfered with natural pharmaceuticals? Because of the chemical pharmaceuticals. (In a very watered down version) the FDA is owned by the chemical pharmaceuticals.
Instead of making sure that the deadly stuff that did make it through to us (examples: the ‘fillers’ used in baby formulas that killed and/or damaged many infants and the prescriptions meds from China that used lead paint, fillers, etc. and damaged / killed others here in the US, etc) didn’t happen, they are turning on the chemical pharmaceuticals ‘competition’ – the natural pharmaceuticals that were actually wonderful for us and our bodies.
Because of the health-reform approaching, many cannot afford western medicine and are seeking alternative medicine (and this will increase, unless we allow the FDA to completely shut those down!).
I am not saying western medicine practices or all chemical pharmaceuticals are bad; I am saying that each of us is responsible for our bodies and must explore what we each need.
This is America! The land of freedom! What’s happening? Where is our freedom going? Why are we not taking a stand, and responsibility, for our own care?
It is our government! They work for us!
I was fighting listening to “me” about my cat’s medicines; my hesitancy and ‘compromise’ probably saved her life.
I fought the FDA to keep them from sticking their noses in the natural pharmacy’s businesses – but not enough people spoke up.
Where is the line, everyone? When will we take responsibility for our government, and our health-care?
Isn’t it time to stand up and be heard? Or will you wait to see what other rights and freedoms will we give up next?
We have the right:
- To speak up.
- To be healthy.
- To be free.
We have the responsibility:
- To speak up.
- To be healthy.
- To be free.
Hi Jan,
I saw a special on the news today that people are getting together to voice the exact same sentiments. The FDA is protecting us to death is what they are talking about.
Pete
Yes! We must become responsible for our health and healthcare. Education is the answer, but you won’t hear it from your doctor too often. It has been my experience that there are many doctors, but only a few physicians. It is sad to me that people can’t choose alternative medicine because it is not usually covered by insurance. Some insurance companies do cover treatments like massage, acupuncture, and chiropractic services, and this is a excellent. No insurance company that I know of covers herbal medicines prescribed by say, a doctor of oriental medicine, or herbologist. Few programs for recovery from drug and alcohol addiction offer acupucture and herbal medicine in their treatement, even though it has been proven to work in several studies done in the last 30 years. The main reason is because providers can’t get paid for it because it is not a covered treatment by the insurance company. Thank goodness most alternative medicine is inexpensive compared to FDA approved drugs (For example, the cost of Prozac vs. the cost of St.John’s Wort?) Thank goodness there is a vast amount of free information available to us through websites like http://www.swsbm.com/homepage , from the late, great Michael Moore’s website. It frightens me though….how long will we be sheeple, blindly letting OUR goverment, or insurance companies dictate how we take care of ourselves, and how long will we believe “medicine” is made only by drug companies. I think I will stick with the wisdom of 5000 years of the Chinese, instead of the FDA. There is hope though. I learned at the Organic Farmers Conference in Albuquerque last weekend that more and more people are asking for pesticide free food. Once we care about something, we fight for it. Education is the answer.
There is a great local botanical company, Desert Woman Botanicals: http://www.desertwoman.net. She makes a tea called New Life Tea that is excellent! Maybe it will help the loss of your bioidentical hormone.
Love ya!
Kelly