Monday, December 24, 2012

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Welcome!






Your journey to health has begun on the right path by visiting this blog.

I look forward to sharing with you my experience and knowledge as a doctor and fellow traveller on the pathway to health. Let's begin with telling my story......


My journey on the path to optimum health is a dynamic one that reaches far back into my childhood and continues to this day. It’s a journey that is never finished and needs to be nourished with education and monitored and reoriented as needed. A big part of my journey is telling you my story today.

To begin, let’s go back to an early childhood memory of me watching my calico cat have kittens.  I remember the cat as it meowed and walked around the living room of my childhood home looking under and behind the couches and end tables. When my mom told me that she was ready to have kittens I was enthralled that this pet cat KNEW what was happening and was preparing for it. I watched in amazement as the kittens were born in a box in the living room and my cat purred and licked her babies clean. The kittens in turn found their way to their mother's nipples and began to feed without any instruction. It was this first experience that convinced me that all living things have an innate healing power that enables them to be healthy.

Another childhood memory that I have is the intense pain that I lived with as I suffered with recurrent ear infections. I can remember being about five years old and laying on the floor of the living room on my left side as Spiderman was on the TV. My mother had just put ear drops in my right ear and sealed it off with a cottonball before returning to the kitchen to make dinner. As I lay there, the pain was so intense that I gave up wanting it to go away and instead it went through me. It hurt so bad that I felt helpless and could only wait it out as I wondered why the doctor couldn't make the pain go away with those drops. The ear infections, doctor visits and antibiotics continued until I was a teenager and underwent a very painful mastoidectomy on my right ear. Due to the longstanding infection my hearing was irrepairably damaged and a reason that I wear hearing aids today. Also, the years of antibiotic use set the stage for upsetting the balance of my digestive tract and helped teach me the lesson of how valuable digestive health is to our overall health.

Other memories were centered around my family's garden, our pets, trips to the shore, and the woods across the street. Many summer days were spent playing in the woods before helping my dad fertilize the tomato plants in the garden after he returned home from work. As night fell, my mother would give my brother and sister and I empty coffee cans to catch lightening bugs along the wood's edge as the crickets and bullfrogs sang their chorus around us. Trips to the shore in the summer were looked forward to all year long and enjoyed as I played on the beach all day, soaking up the summer sun. I realize now that the vitamin D produced at that time helped ward off the ear infections that plaqued me at that time.
 
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