The ICI Experience:

Here's my complete receipt from the FFC. Click on the individual page to see it full size. Page 1 of the receipt shows tests I was given and their costs, and my diagnoses. Page 2 details the "Intraveneous Infusion." I'm going to ask more about this IV drip at my next appointment. I think it might have helped me to feel better but I was totally wiped out for the rest of the day of the infusion. The majority of the cost of the drip is for the administration of the infusion. Huh. Must have been to cover the private room they set Mom and I up in - she got her own recliner. She liked that. She read for awhile then took a nap. I sat in my recliner for two hours trying to hold my arm in the right position for the drip to keep on drippin'. I'm supposed to be having these infusions weekly, but it's not possible since I live so far away. I will ask if a local doctor's office could administer this IF I decide that it's really helping. And next t...

I'm writing about the environment today, for Blog Action Day. Years ago, coal miners took canaries down into the coal mines with them, because canaries are more sensitive to the poisonous coal gases than human beings are. When a bird started acting sick, the miners beat a hasty retreat. The canary usually died. The following is an excerpt from "Canaries In A Coal Mine", by Kevin Gregg, DC, from the Chronic Syndrome Support Association site : "Have you ever considered that those of you experiencing FMS, CFS, MCS and GWS symptoms might simply be canaries down the collective mine shaft? What if, like those canaries, you were simply the early warning system for this culture. What if your experiences were exposing mounting health risks for everyone? You are, I suspect, at the far end of a continuum that all of us are on to varying degrees. Placement on this continuum depends only on the degree a person is stressed, starved and poisoned by their life and environm...

I checked her book out at the library and I read sections of it. I'm not so good with non-fiction unless it reads like fiction. It's an excellent book, but mostly it doesn't read like fiction. Ms. Wall is a scholar and a feminist and her book reads like it was written by a scholarly feminist.