Joanne wrote: > > On the flip side of the Cipro controversy....I had a very severe bone > > infection in my foot a few years back......I still have my foot thanks to > > Cipro
Nina replied: > I'm sincerely glad you posted this, because it's always good to be > reminded that some people really do benefit from strong allopathic > drugs. Sometimes they are needed. I'm glad you have your foot. > > Perhaps, when the health communities are not so polarized, we can take > natural remedies as a matter of course and THEN bring out heavy drugs > if the holistic approaches fail. Amen to both of you. My Rosie is alive today because of IV antibiotics and heparin administered by a skilled and caring physician after the birth of our middle child. She ended up with an abdominal blood clot and septicemia because of an undetected kidney infection. She nearly collapsed when she tried to get up after delivery so she could be taken to her room. She was in sad shape for several days until the fever finally broke. At one point they found her tottering down the hallway towing her IV pole... and not making a whole lot of sense. It was two weeks before she came home, and another two weeks of IV abx at home before we were able to clear her system and start our newborn on breastfeeding. ***(See below) I know that many of our members have had bad experiences with allopathic medicine. I agree that we should trust *no one* without checking things out for ourselves and that we have to fight the mainstream lies and disinformation directed against alternatives that work. However, I will give credit where it's due. My wife would be a casualty of childbirth, just like so many women who died before, if medicine had not advanced as far as it has. My daughter would not have even been concieved if her mom had died after delivering her older brother. I thank that doctor who worried and worked very hard and cared so much for our entire family. He's a good man. Be well, Mike D. *** PS> *That* was another amazing aspect of the story... Here I am after two days, at home with a newborn and a toddler and my wife still in the hospital. We were committed to nursing, so Rose was pumping and discarding her milk. I had to feed him formula, but we used playtex products because they had the slowest nipples on the market and require the baby to suck rather spiritedly to get the milk. After the "easy" nipples they used in the hospital, you should have seen the irate little bugger wondering why this danged thing I was pushing at him wouldn't work! <GRIN> After a few false starts and some screaming, he got the idea. Four weeks later, with a bit of help from a lactation consultant we met through La Leche League, we successfully got him on the breast and had a good two years of successful mothering. This is one of the things we've done that makes me proud. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
