Chasing a few health-related threads. Putting the pieces together concerning my firstborn.
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Yesterday's rereading of A Midwestern Doctor supported Forrest Maready's arguments in Crooked better than I had remembered. Maready's theories about the surge in man-made, chronic diseases, metals, vaccines and intracellular bacteria are not all alone out in left field. I am also impressed at how much bolder the Doctor has become. What he initially proposed as theories are now presented as facts, and conjectures about the motives of the Covid actors (Fauci, NIH, big pharma) are also presented as fact. He has broadened his scope from Covid to all vaccines to all pharmaceuticals.
A couple of you readers have recently had joint replacements. The logic is simple – joints wear out over time. I know what can happen from experience. I had arthroscopic surgery almost forty years ago when the cartilage in my knee gave out after too much running, and I occasionally get twinges in my hip. But is there more to the story? I searched on "joint replacement." Most common ones are knee, hip and shoulder. Most common reason is osteoarthritis, followed by rheumatoid arthritis.
Is there any relationship between vaccines and arthritis? There appears to be. The Covid vaccines cause arthritis to flare up. No mention of other vaccines. Though one would imagine that the mechanisms would be similar, most vaccinations are given in childhood and joints wear out in old age. The number of joint replacements is increasing year-over-year, but not that dramatically. As I continue my bicycling and exercise bike (AKA squirrel machine) I'll keep an eye on the statistics.
Oksana has been plagued by a foot fungus that won't go away. Among other things. Maready's book describes intracellular bacteria – bugs that manage to live within other cells, chiefly white blood cells. A little research shows that fungi, yeasts in particular, have managed this trick. Maready's observation is that metals facilitate stripping bacteria of their cell walls, enabling them to live within other cells.
There are two primary means of getting rid of metals in the somatic material of the body – those that have gotten past the lines of defense via "leaky gut" or injection. First is sweating them out, and second is chelation. What's that? Chelation is the formation of chemical compounds made up of positive metal ions with negative organic ions. Metals can be excreted by our systems via chelates. He suggests silica – silicon dioxide (SiO2) – as the best agent for chelation of aluminum.
He recommends buying a mineral water such as Fiji brand. In Ukraine the choice seems to be Вода кремниевая Dr.OM Crystal. Sand is mostly silicon dioxide. The problem is that it does not dissolve well. I note, however, that our well draws water through sand from old beaches, and silica appears to dull the shine on our faucets and sinks. I suspect we get enough silicon dioxide.
Another question. Fiji water, at about $1.60 per 500 ml, has 93mg/l SiO2. Dr. OM Crystal has 50-150 (a wide range!) of H2SiO3 . It costs about 60¢ per bottle Given that because they include the water molecule that comes with it, the compound they list has only about 70% as much silicon by weight, and at the minimum has only about half as much (50 vs 93 mg), it could be more expensive and less effective.
A husband, like a doctor, benefits by appearing to do something even if he is inwardly skeptical. Should I do it? The monetary risk is small. There is an online recipe for making silica water that, after we buy the Silica and a couple other ingredients, would cost pennies per gallon. On the other hand it would be an ongoing task for the man of the house to keep a supply on hand. The minor questions of life.
As I have been reading about vaccine injury, I conclude that my firstborn son Jack was probably affected. What I've written a lot about him over the years still stands on my web site. The evidence is all there, if only I had known how to interpret what I observed.
He was in therapy for tactile defensiveness, which often appears on the autism spectrum.
He was treated for ADHD for several years. I had thought it was just a fashionable diagnosis. Whatever the case, it is characteristic of autism.
He was compulsive about his pornography and escapist literature.
He is clumsy. He could never master tools and was an atrocious driver.
He listened to heavy metal music, at volumes so loud it escaped his earbuds and I had to ask him to turn it down as I drove him to school.
He did not develop lasting friendships.
He did not have girlfriends or show much interest in girls.
He had a very fragile ego – he could not accept criticism. He came to avoid me, sensing implicit criticism from my mere presence.
He has a somewhat asymmetric face.
He did not engage. When I kicked a soccer ball to neighbor kid Freddie, he would kick it back. Two-year-old Jack would simply watch it roll by.
Our neighbors Roger and Pauline Locker, both child psychologists, would change the subject when I would talk about Jack's future. I'm quite sure they could see there was something wrong but would not have wanted to butt into our business. As good Washington D.C. liberals they do not return calls to this wife-rejecting conservative. But I'm sure they knew.
Given the huge number of therapists that Jack saw, one would think that the penny should have dropped for somebody. The word autism should have at least come up in our discussions. His early therapists were Terese Charles for tactile defensiveness and Barbara Silverman Kahn for speech. There was the school psychologist who recommended that he spend an extra year in kindergarten rather than advanced to first grade. There was Dr. Barbara Ingersoll and Dr. Jay Giedd who prescribed a ton of amphetamines to address his ADHD. There was Dr. Drake the psychiatrist. There was Debbie Brewer, his long-time tutor. Debbie is dead, there is no trace of Terese, and Jay Giedd has failed three times to answer my letters. I don't think there's anything in the Hippocratic oath that would compel a doctor to take an interest in the long-term outcome of their treatments. However, I think that for the sake of simply improving their professionalism they would want to know what worked and what didn't. They don't. I have not read Abigail Scheier's "Bad Therapy," but I think I could contribute a bit to her argument.
The daughters of my first marriage are/were also weird in their own ways. I attribute much of it to genetics and the permissive style of parenting encouraged by society, schools and the therapists. The constant drumbeat of sexual permissiveness and blaming straight white men for the world's problems – which as I also wrote on my web site I heard from them constantly during their teen years. Could there have been a vaccine component as well? I'll never know, and figuring it out at this juncture would be of no help.
Ex-wife Mary Ann has not talked to me for fourteen years. Some of you still see her around. I would appreciate your sharing these observations. It is quite likely nothing for which either of us could be blamed except for accepting the received wisdom of our generation. She has only one functional child left, a distant and stand-offish one at that. She does not need to blame herself, or feel that I blame her for how things turned out.
That's the news from Lake WeBeGone, where the women of the family have the garden planted for the summer. Our walk-in greenhouse having collapsed under the ice and snow, we are using these small tents. I'd just as soon stick with them. The greenhouse cost close to $500. More than that, it was three days' work cutting it apart to get rid of it.
A good friend of mine, somebody that I knew for 40 years just died at age 62. She came to work in my shop after college, age 22. According to my sources, she developed breast cancer and was recovering until a blood clot formed and caused a heart attack.
My guess is that she was vaccinated. I don't want to ask her husband, but the description of her illness corresponds directly to mRNA side-effects. It's a sad day for me, because she was competent, smart, capable and worked for me for more than 20 years. She was first a cashier, then a clerk, buyer, General Manager, and finally my bookkeeper. She did everything possible in the store including managing a staff of 50.
A few years ago, she hosted a memorial for my former business partner at her home. I never thought at the time that in a few years we would have a memorial for her in the same house.
Here is a summation of 25 years of business: my business partner died at 62, likely from stress and pressure of running the business on his own. The former long-term General Manager is currently living in a half-way house after his own store (formerly one of my other stores) went bankrupt. At age 57, he committed himself after the failure of the business. And my former GM and bookkeeper is dead at age 62.
It's sad because the business was once thriving and we were all doing well, and then I decided that I had had enough and moved to Ukraine to teach English.
My husband had toenail fungus quite badly for decades. When he also developed an atopic dermatitis that involved severe itching and neuropathic pain (shooting, burning pain) to the point that I was afraid for his mental health. As a last resort, I tried Lugol's solution in his coffee, a big squirt, maybe even 2 squirts. Within a few days the itching and burning pain subsided--and within a month or two his toe fungus was also gone. We persisted with the Lugol's for a year or 2, gradually using it only when it looked like a flare up was starting, and now we have not had to use it at all for some years. No more fungus or flare ups! We used a 2% iodine solution, which is what we can easily buy here in the states. During the several years we used a LOT of Lugol's, he did not develop any thyroid problems, by the way. Just giving you our experience in case it could be helpful.