Guest guest Posted January 1, 2011 Report Share Posted January 1, 2011 I had an emergency appendectomy on December 8th. (Happens to be my husband's birthday. Do I know how to surprise a guy on his birthday, or what?) Please don't tell me there is an appendix cleanse procedure. (I didn't learn about the gall bladder cleanse until years after my gall bladder was gone.) Not that I think there was anything to be done, because the surgeon said it was gangrenous, & had clearly been failing for a while. (I have had so much gut trouble from antibiotics & losing my gall bladder that I didn't realize I had appendix trouble till it went ballistic. And boy, was it a struggle to turn down the prophylactic antibiotics they kept pushing at me. I totally lucked out on the surgeon, who promised not to give me any antibiotics unless my appendix had ruptured before he got in there or there was clearly infection outside the appendix. And he kept his word.)Being obese in the hospital really stinks. There are some medical folks who look at you as they would a smoker -- as somebody who willfully injures their health, & therefore deserves no compassion. (My apologies to anybody trying to kick the smoking habit. I think that deserves compassion, too -- just talking about the judgmental attitude.)The weird part, to me, is that I was out of there 24 hours after my surgery, & several hours before I was told I was likely to be. The nurse who checked me out told my husband, "She is doing great! I saw her walking around the halls this morning -- no, she wasn't walking, she was RUNNING!" Another nurse described my progress as "awesome." They often take my blood pressure twice, because it is nice & normal, & they keep expecting it to be high. It is so hard to get some people to look past your obesity so that you can get appropriate care.AnneOn Jan 1, 2011, at 7:29 PM, diane gaul wrote: i went to the doctor a week ago. this is not iodine but.... ihurt my leg, tore the ligament in the knee, the medial collareral lig. anyway, i fell down the steps a couple weeks ago, landed on feet but my knee is really bothering me. anyway, lame brain tells me i need to lose weight. i said i know but my knee, use bengay. i said what? he said use ben gay. he saw the look on my face said you need to lose weight i can't do anything. so i should have said, you are right. if i weighed 110, i could be pushed down steps and because i wouldn't have weight issue at 110 i wouldn't get hurt. skinny people shouldn't die after all they don't have a weight problem. he gave me this medicine gel for the skin that when i read said contraindicated for people with cabg, which i have from triple by pass, contraindicated for high bp, which i take meds for, puts you at higher rish for thrombosis, and higher risk for heart attack and stroke. and he gave it to me. i wanted to bitch slap him from here to mars and back. told me to stop taking vitamins, they aren't regulated,.... and don't work. i told him straight out not true. they worked on my and on my cramps.. it makes you sick. and natalie you are right, not home of the free. communism working its way in. diane, near philly, pa On Jan 1, 2011, at 1:39 PM, ladybugsandbees wrote:I am so disgusted by all this. I contacted my senators, etc and it fell on deaf ears. They are useless anyway. Every time I contact them they respond back with a nicey nicey e-mail telling me they understand my concerns but they know better .... basically. I'd love to get in a room with them one on one and have them defend how all this is good for us. I am so concerned for my children. This is not the country I wanted them to grow up in. Yes this will affect iodine. We already have experienced one power grab by the DEA who placed the limitations on selling only 2 oz max of 5% Lugol's due to the meth drug producers. What a crock. You can go on the internet *Youtube* and get instructions how to make it with supplies you can buy over the counter. Do you think they aren't doing that now too? I am tired of all this. It is getting harder and harder to stay well naturally. Steph S. 510 This will likely affect iodine and Lugol's.Jean*****************http://www.cancertruth.net/newsletter_2010dec.html/#iodineMany of you have been following S.510, aka the ³Food Safety ModernizationAct.² After literally over 20 MILLION emails of protest to the Senate, thebill was dead in the water.... or so we thought. But the CRIMINALS inCongress are sneakier than serpents. You see, S.510 was sent back to Houseas amendment to HR 2751 (aka the ³Recycling Bill²) to avoid public scrutinyand opprobrium.According to Fred Grant, here is how Senator ³Dirty Harry Reid²(D-Nevada) pulled off this monumental fraud on the American people. (LINK)In the early evening of Sunday (December 19th), Reid called the ³RecyclingBill² for a vote and there was no objection from the two (that¹s right...TWO) other Senators who were on the floor. So by ³unanimous² consent HR2751 was passed. The other two Senators went home, then Senator Reid movedfor reconsideration with the vote to be tabled. This was granted by thesame ³unanimous² consent because there was no other Senator on the floor.That¹s right... Dirty Harry Reid was the ONLY Senator on the floor.Then Dirty Harry offered without objection (of course he wouldn¹t objectwith himself) amendment number 4890 which substituted S.510 the Food SafetyBill for the Recycling Bill. Without objection, then the amendment waspassed and the Food Safety Bill had been substituted for the Recycling Bill.Reid moved that the bill be read for the third time and asked for thequestion. Without objection, the bill passed, and the Food Safety Bill wason the way back to the House. According to Fred Grant, ³If thesituation weren¹t so critical to our Republic, it would be funny to see theSenator on C-Span when he asks for unanimous consent and the President ofthe Senate says Owithout objection, granted.¹ There is no objection becausethere is no one on the floor to object.² (Doesn¹t this sound eerily similarto the downright deceptive manner in which the ³FED² was enacted back in1913?) Then, three days before Christmas, with most of the Congress alreadyhome for the holidays, what was left of the House passed the bill and votedto join the Senate in giving ³Big Agri-Biz² a holiday present ... the USA... Our Freedom ... Our Bodies ... and Our Food!According to Marti Oakley (with whom I agree 100%), ³The last two weekshave seen some of the most unethical, deceptive, manipulative and outrighttraitorous actions by both the House and the Senate. With ³Dirty Harry²Reid leading the traitors charge, every rule was broken, every trick wasused, every deception was employed to force the passage of S.510 against thewill of the people, most of whom recognized this hostile takeover ofagriculture for what it was ... We are under siege, only it isn¹t comingfrom someone 'over there' in some country far away. It isn¹t coming fromforeign terrorists who hate us for our freedoms. Its coming from theDistrict of Criminals. It is those in this district that hate us and whosee our freedom as a threat to their existence. How much more do we have toforfeit, how many more of our rights will be taken away before we stand upand say 'enough'! We are under attack and it isn¹t some namelessunidentifiable, unknown source that is wanting to harm us: it's our owngovernment.² (LINK)As I began to summarize horrific implications of what this legislationreally means, I received an email from Mike , the Health Ranger, and hedid an amazing job, so I decided to post a large portion of the articlebelow.(from NaturalNews.com) Of all the talk about S.510, virtually no one hasactually read the language in the bill -- especially not those lawmakers whovoted for it. The more you read from this bill, the more surreal it allbecomes. For example, did you know there¹s a global FDA power grab agendahidden in the Food Safety Modernization Act? Keep reading and I¹ll quotetext straight out of the bill itself. Section 305 is entitled ³BUILDINGCAPACITY OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS WITH RESPECT TO FOOD SAFETY² and it givesthe FDA authority to set up offices in foreign countries and then dictatethe food safety plans of foreign governments. Huh? The FDA is now going torun the food safety programs of foreign governments? Look out, world: ³I¹mfrom the FDA and I¹m here to help!²So who is involved in creating this? Believe it or not, the global ³foodsafety² plan is to be developed under consultation to the Department ofHomeland Security as well as the U.S. Treasury. You might reasonably wonder³What does the Department of Homeland Security have to do with the FDA¹sfood safety plan?² Or ³Why is the U.S. Treasury involved in the foodsupply?² Learn more about the Federal Reserve and you¹ll have the answers tothese questions. I don¹t have space for all the details here, but read Ed¹s book (The Creature from Jekyll Island) and visitwww.realityzone.com if you really want to know what¹s behind a lot of this.So what does this global ³food safety plan² actually entail? It¹s allspelled out right in the language of the law. You can view this yourself onpage 195 of the bill text in the PDF file here. Now, with this law, the FDAwill begin pushing its dead foods agenda globally, essentially exporting theFDA¹s agenda of death and disease by making sure other nations destroy thenutritive qualities of their food supply in the same way the U.S. is doing.It¹s all great for the global Big Pharma profiteers, of course. The moredisease they can spread around the world, the more money they¹ll make fromselling medications.Codex Alimentarius is also promoted in the bill! The ³Plan² described inthis bill continues with the following: ³Recommendations on whether and howto harmonize requirements under the Codex Alimentarius.² This is included sothat the FDA will ³harmonize² the U.S. food and dietary supplementindustries with global Codex requirements which outlaw virtually all healthydoses of vitamins and minerals. Under full Codex ³harmonization,² Americawill be left with a dead food supply and the health food stores will bevirtually stripped bare of dietary supplements. Selling vitamin D at areasonable dose such as 4,000 IU per capsule will be criminalized andproducts will be seized and destroyed by FDA agents who recruit local lawenforcement to bring in the firepower.All this will, of course, ensure a diseased, nutritionally-deficient U.S.population. This actually seems to be the goal the FDA has been trying toachieve all along because the more diseased the population, the more moneygets collected by Big Pharma for ³treating² sick people with medication andchemotherapy. It makes me wonder why some food book authors sowholeheartedly supported this bill. Why were so many progressives on theleft so enamored with this law? Didn¹t they realize this was a huge FDApower expansion that would destroy many small farms and put farmers out ofbusiness while subjecting the USA to possible Codex harmonization? Did theyeven know the FDA is now on a global food-killing agenda that will seek topasteurize, fumigate, cook or kill virtually every piece of food that entersthe United States? Did they not know that the bill does absolutely nothingto limit the use of chemical pesticides on imported food? According to theFDA¹s stance on all this, foods laced with DDT and other pesticides areperfectly ³safe² for human consumption, but foods teeming with probiotics --such as raw milk -- are deadly and dangerous! (Seriously...)Let me just say it bluntly: The Food Safety Modernization Act is thedestroyer of local organic farming. It will gut small farms and local farms,greatly increasing the price of local organic food while decreasingAmerica¹s food security. Farmers¹ Markets will be targeted by FDA agents whoraid the operations of local farmers and imprison them for not having theright paperwork. Families will be destroyed, and those who have beensuccessful at local food production will scale back their operations in adesperate effort to duck under the $500,000 / year rule (which can easily besurpassed by producing just ten acres of organic carrots, by the way).From another point of view, however, this bill is doing exactly what it wassupposed to do: Destroy small farms, wipe out family farm operations,imprison raw milk producers and centralize food production in the hands ofthe big corporate food producers whose operations are steeped in pesticidesand soil degradation. This bill should have been called the ³Big AgricultureMonopoly Act² because that¹s what it does. It will ensure that America¹sfood supply will be controlled by Monsanto, DuPont and other agriculturalgiants who have been at odds with small organic farms for years.The global food control agenda is a conspiracy, not a theory! It¹s all partof the global food control agenda that we now know to be 100% true based onthe leaked Wikileaks cables which revealed that the U.S. governmentconspired to push GMO¹s into Europe and ³create a retaliatory target list²for any nation that resisted GMO¹s (such as France). Read that full reporthere. Thanks to Wikileaks, we now know that the global GMO conspiracy isquite real. It¹s something that U.S. diplomats and government officialsscheme on in order to appease their corporate masters in the agricultureindustry. Now, with the Food Safety Modernization Act, this globalconspiracy extends beyond GMO¹s and encompasses the global food supply, too.It has become clear that U.S. lawmakers and bureaucrats will not stop untilthey have killed the entire global food supply, rendering living foods, rawfoods and dietary supplements illegal or impossibly difficult to grow. Youcan thank your U.S. Congresspeople and Senators for all this, of course. Inthe end, every Senator (Republican and Democrat) in office today caved inand voted to pass this bill. You can also thank those who publicly promotedthis bill even while having no real idea of the horrors they weresupporting. Such begins a new era of global food destruction headed by whatcan only be called the most dangerous government agency in North America:The U.S. Food and Drug Administration.Reference: http://www.naturalnews.com/030863_food_safety_bill_Codex_Alimentarius.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 Anne Glad to hear you're doing well. When I had my hip surgery I was quite overweight (no great surprise there as I'd been moving increasingly slowly for two years!). The nurses and my surgeon were amazingly wonderful and kept telling me how well I was doing (I'd had both hips done at the same time, and in this achieved minor celeb status on the floor!). As I was being transferred to the local hospital, a nurse whispered in my ear that I was inspiring. When I saw the rheumatologist as an outpatient after the surgery and asked her about managing OA and FM now that the major pain I'd had was dealt with she told me that if I lost fifty pounds I'd feel fantastic. She went on about how she swam every night etc. etc. not realizing that in my small town swimming ANY night was nearly impossible...and heaven knows where she left her kids in all this. She told me that as there were so few rheumatologists in town, they didn't follow OA or FM as it was too common. She did not refer me to anyone else. Well, I lost the weight and if I felt fantastic, I doubt I'd be on this list right now. But being overweight causes everything, right?? (tongue in cheek!!). I am not a smoker, but I do no agree with how they, as users of a legal substance, are treated. These bills to regulate supplements bother me immensely but really who is to gain by a sick population. Do not the politicians and big corps realize that their families will be affected too? Why aren't the insurance companies, who will have to foot the bill in many cases, complaining about all the OTCs slated to become prescription? How do you make food a prescription item? Jaye > > I had an emergency appendectomy on December 8th. (Happens to be my > husband's birthday. Do I know how to surprise a guy on his birthday, > or what?) Please don't tell me there is an appendix cleanse > procedure. (I didn't learn about the gall bladder cleanse until years > after my gall bladder was gone.) Not that I think there was anything > to be done, because the surgeon said it was gangrenous, & had clearly > been failing for a while. (I have had so much gut trouble from > antibiotics & losing my gall bladder that I didn't realize I had > appendix trouble till it went ballistic. And boy, was it a struggle > to turn down the prophylactic antibiotics they kept pushing at me. I > totally lucked out on the surgeon, who promised not to give me any > antibiotics unless my appendix had ruptured before he got in there or > there was clearly infection outside the appendix. And he kept his word.) > > Being obese in the hospital really stinks. There are some medical > folks who look at you as they would a smoker -- as somebody who > willfully injures their health, & therefore deserves no compassion. > (My apologies to anybody trying to kick the smoking habit. I think > that deserves compassion, too -- just talking about the judgmental > attitude.) > > The weird part, to me, is that I was out of there 24 hours after my > surgery, & several hours before I was told I was likely to be. The > nurse who checked me out told my husband, " She is doing great! I saw > her walking around the halls this morning -- no, she wasn't walking, > she was RUNNING! " Another nurse described my progress as " awesome. " > They often take my blood pressure twice, because it is nice & normal, > & they keep expecting it to be high. It is so hard to get some people > to look past your obesity so that you can get appropriate care. > > Anne > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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