Re: was Walking Pneumonia / now Sara's Friend / SCD

[Guest guest]

*sigh* No, it's not like that. It's like, " I don't buy my own

groceries because I can't afford to, " and when you're living on charity,

you subsist on what you can get. It's not fun, and I'm new to it; I'm

used to being able to treat myself and my family better than this. I've

always been a big fan of natural healing, but ever since I hit rough

times, I've discovered that it's not something geared for the poor.

Organic costs more, raw and un-processed things are harder to find, and

naturopaths (if you can find them, which you can't around here) cost as

much as doctors and don't take insurance (which I don't have anyway).

I hear, often through this list, about communities where people support

each other, and trade things, and where living " clean " doesn't cost more

than living on the corporate take...I really hope that idea catches on,

and spreads to more places. But sometimes it's depressing hearing about it.

We had to abandon the SCD idea, by the way. I was able to make one

batch of chicken soup, but to make anything else we could eat, I would

have had to go shopping, and it was that or diapers for the baby, so no

go. He still generally feels okay, or tolerable, as long as he doesn't

drink coffee, so I guess we cross our fingers and I keep saving up until

I have enough to take him to the clinic (we found a sliding-scale one,

but you have to have $50 to be seen, even if that's not what it ends up

costing, so...) and hopefully, we can find out what's up.

Thanks as always for the help, but I think I'm gonna go no-mail for a

while. Health is of great interest to me, but I just don't need the

extra stress right now of thinking about what I *should* be doing and

can't. I can barely take this as it is. (And heh, immediately I

thought of eight or nine teas I could make for stress, and none of which

I can buy the herbs for. It's almost funny, isn't it?)

-ST

MorningGlory113@... wrote:

> Doing it anyway, but yeah, way inconvenient, very

> difficult. -ST

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> You sound like you're really putting up lots of resistance to this,

> Sara. Buying fresh veggies will cost less in the long run, as things

> like meat and pre-packaged are very expensive. If you have a pot, you

> can just make up some vegetable soup for starters. You don't have to

> have all sorts of fancy equipment and recipes. It is not really that

> diffifcult to do. Plus we can help you if you need pointers.

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> Gloria

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