Which doctors!

Thinking outside the box does not require a genious.  In fact, being super intelligent can even be a hindrance if you think you already know all the things that can and cannot be done.

Nearly fifteen years ago I went into a drug store looking for some relief for a cold sore.  The bain of my life, they have appeared on nearly every important occasion in my life.  Several doctors had given me drugs to speed up the healing, or eliminate the pain, so I thought that was all I could do.  That night I coudn't find the expensive little tube of medicine so I asked the pharmacist.  He told me to use a natural supplement called L-Lysine and I have only had two very minor cold sores since!  And I only had them because I waited too long after feeling the familiar burn of an impending cold sore before I took the L-Lysine.  The secret is to take one the moment I feel a cold sore coming on and continue to take them, about every two hours, until that feeling disappears.  It works, but it depends on me.  I have to make the decisions, be proactive. 

I am amazed that doctors and television ads still try to sell tubes and tubs of medicine that don't really do much at all and no one ever mentions the L-Lysine.  It's cheap, simple and it works almost perfectly.

I'm sorry to say that in our world of mass medicine, huge pharmaceutical companies, and greed, we are denied so much really useful information and sold so many mythical ones that it's no wonder we are bamboozled into taking drugs that do more harm than good when the common sense approach of letting nature take its course would be healthier in the long run.

No longer the patients of country doctors who come to the house so you don't have to get out of bed when you are sick, we have become the patients of doctors who make us wait hours in their "waiting rooms" and then treat us, to keep from being sued, with an over abundance of tests and medicines that often come back to haunt us down the road.

I don't even think modern doctors realize they are doing this.  They too believe that if one test is good, a million might be better and if a procedure can be done to cure something now, why wait on nature in this modern world?

Why?  Because we are biological wonders created by nature!  Sometimes it is good to give her a hand, but a lot of the time what we do is useless, or even harmful and often won't last.  Another example:  I injured my rotator cuff.  It took over a year to heal and it was very painful, but it healed strong and perfect unlike all the people I knew having surgery to heal it quickly who then reinjured it again and even again!

It takes us nine months in our mother's wombs.  It takes us nearly two decades to mature.  We can live to be over a hundred, so it is clear to me that our bodies require time and given that time often heal themselves given the proper food, rest, and exercise. 

Our medical knowledge is still easily within witch doctor boundaries.  It treats symptoms.  Some day it will really KNOW when it is time to intervene with drugs and which ones do more good than harm.  Right now it seems to me to be a game of chance, so when I have a doctor who has time to really listen to me and discuss my treatment with me, not as an outside expert, but a collaborator I am blessed.