"I am in receipt of the letter, and I would like to speak to the doctor" she said, with a carefully controlled but venomous tone that surprised her.
The letter had been in the mailbox since before a heavy rain the day before. It was soggy, ant ridden, and crumpled up, but she could tell it had been mailed certified. She knew without looking that it was from a doctor. And she knew without opening it exactly what it would say.
"I therefore regret to inform you that I will no longer be able to provide medical services to your son."
Another one. Another doctor who had no idea how to treat her son other than to refer him to a parade of specialists. Another one who tried to make it look like it was all her fault because she hadn't been doing enough medically for her son herself.
Her son had seen a parade of medical caregivers starting when he was first diagnosed at the age of eight: gastroenterologists, endocrinologists, orthopedists, physical therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, pain specialists, rheumatologists, and neurologists. She spent years running from one doctor's appointment to the next.
All of the doctors prescribed at least one prescription medicine, and some of them as many as four. Despite all this medical intervention his health deteriorated inexorably, and in time he became completely bedridden. Not from the original disease mind you, which was "under control", but from the drugs.
OK it's time I came clean. I'm talking about myself and my son. I started this in response to @mariannewest's freewrite challenge for the prompt " numchucks" because I really felt the urge to go bash that doctor's head in with some sort of object. But it's not an entry to the contest. And I won't be bashing in any heads.
Maybe I will tell you some more later because there really is much more, like how natural medicine has benefitted my son in ways so called western medicine could not. And like how parents are forced to go medical routes that they know are harmful just to keep custody of their children.
But right now I have to get busy finding yet another doctor, hopefully one who is a healer and not a self-serving drug pusher.
Thank you for reading! Tomorrow I'll try to write something more cheerful. My posts have mostly been about death, abuse and grief this week. Somehow I keep laughing though. It's another one of my superpowers.
The image is mine. The hand is my son's.
Regards @owasco
I lived this torture with my oldest son.
He began to convulse at 2 years.
He was only prescribed drugs.
.
Already at age 7, he started with homeopathy
Little by little he returned to live free of medication.
With an adequate diet and homeopathy.
I never had a seizure episode again.
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I am so happy you found a protocol that worked for you and your son. I am still trying to put all the pieces together - he was gravely harmed before I thought to try other modes of healing so it's very complicated. We will figure it out! Until then, we have to choose our battles with care.
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Thank you!!!!
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I am so sorry you are being forced to live through this. And that your son is living through it as well. Don't apologize for not being cheerful. Some days it's just not possible. I hope you find the answers you need.
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Thank you! I need wide open meadows of ox eye daisies and pine forests floored in fern. Oh wait! I get those from you. xo
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I hope you've heard of the Weston A. Price Foundation. Their diet of traditional principles that people have followed for millennia may be of some help. Check their podcast Wise Traditions, where they have scientific and annecdotal support for it helping with all kinds of ailments.
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Thank you so much!
Yes, we largely follow the GAPS diet. I make many of our ferment and get the rest from Weston Price devotees. I always have broth in the fridge and pastured meat in the freezer. We are all in with Dr Natasha and Sally F. The protocol works. Our problem is complicated by ten years of toxic western medical treatment before we ever heard of Weston Price. And invasive governmental pressure to follow AMA guidelines to a great extent. But they can't tell us what to eat (not that they care), so for that part I am doing my utmost. We say no to a lot of drugs and vaccines. Doctors do not care for that at all.
Thanks again! You guys always appreciate the posts that scare me the most to publish. Thank you for that support.
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I hope that you will find a person who can support your son’s healing!!!
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Thank you! I'm on it!
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I am sorry you and your son have been through this. I also know it first hand, going since childhood with untreated Lyme disease. Most either said or thought "it was all in my head". Finally dx'd in 2008 and put on more drugs, which had NO effect.
I've been treating myself with the best food I can raise since then. Gave the wheelchair away about 5 years ago....
I had a decent doctor, but she left practice for her family. Have a new one but the jury is out...
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He had the most wonderful primary care physician for many years who retired a few years ago, and it has been medical hell to find a PCP who does more good than harm ever since. It's the specialists that are the worst drug pushers. Except for the vaccines. The primaries push those.
I hope your new doctor is one of the good ones, respects your medical decisions, and that their office staff is capable and courteous. The office staff matters more to me than the doctor these days - they are ones who do the work. The doctors mostly just follow standard medical one-size-fits-all guidelines.
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