Let me give you a bit of background so you know who is writing this blog and who is involved in this adventure.
I am an RN who graduated a mere two years ago but at the time I was studying for my finals, my new granddaughter was having health problems; she was tentively diagnosed with tyrosinemia, a condition I had never heard of. As a grandmother who was almost a nurse, I felt an urge to find out all about this disease afflicting my grandbaby. But then, the doctors ruled that out and we were left without a clue to her problem.
When she was about two years old she was finally diagnosed with mitochondrial disease and her symptoms included; inability to walk due to lack of coordination, no speech, eczema, allergies, seizures, failure to thrive, and GI problems (which was one of the first indications something was wrong along with sky-high elevated liver enzymes).
At the time the doctors thought she had tyrosinemia (which would hopefully be cured by diet and one available drug, if not, a liver transplant) I started doing some research and eventually came to realize that the "health care system" so prevalent in America today is actually more detrimental to a person's health and does more to promote the sickness that a person goes to the doctor for than "cure" it.
So, six months after I graduated as an RN, I started going to school again, this time, to learn what really promotes health. I decided that I also wanted to be a health advocate for people, to encourage them to open their eyes to the lies our government, large corporations, and the media tells us. Those lies made me angry then and I am now, still angry. Angry that our government purports to protect the public when, in fact, it does nothing of the sort. And I am angry with the belief that my granddaughter is one of the many thousands of individuals, a large portion of them children, who are suffering from any number of diseases and conditions because of our government's indifference to the escalating sickness of our society. I am really angry about that.
When she was about two years old she was finally diagnosed with mitochondrial disease and her symptoms included; inability to walk due to lack of coordination, no speech, eczema, allergies, seizures, failure to thrive, and GI problems (which was one of the first indications something was wrong along with sky-high elevated liver enzymes).
At the time the doctors thought she had tyrosinemia (which would hopefully be cured by diet and one available drug, if not, a liver transplant) I started doing some research and eventually came to realize that the "health care system" so prevalent in America today is actually more detrimental to a person's health and does more to promote the sickness that a person goes to the doctor for than "cure" it.
So, six months after I graduated as an RN, I started going to school again, this time, to learn what really promotes health. I decided that I also wanted to be a health advocate for people, to encourage them to open their eyes to the lies our government, large corporations, and the media tells us. Those lies made me angry then and I am now, still angry. Angry that our government purports to protect the public when, in fact, it does nothing of the sort. And I am angry with the belief that my granddaughter is one of the many thousands of individuals, a large portion of them children, who are suffering from any number of diseases and conditions because of our government's indifference to the escalating sickness of our society. I am really angry about that.
I am not a practicing nurse anymore. I have decided to be a team driver with my husband driving a big-rig truck. At the same time I will continue "going to school" online while on the road. This decision of mine to go trucking has presented some challenges that I hope to overcome...soon 1) I will start out with limited internet connectivity and 2) how in the world am I going to eat healthy while on the road?
As for my internet connection, I know there are ports in truck stops, McD's, libraries and coffee shops but that limitation seems to be pretty painful so as soon as I am able I will get satellite wi-fi so I can be wired 24/7 in the truck. As for what to eat, well, I had hoped to be able to use a couple of sites (one of those is, http://www.eatwellguide.com/) on the internet to find out where the healthy places to eat are by plugging in a city name but I had thought about that with the idea that I would have internet access anytime and would be able to say, "hey, why don't we try this place today, honey?" while Joe was driving and getting hungry. I am now surmising that I will have to stop somewhere to connect, decide where it is we think we might want to stop and eat and take it from there. But, you know, everything is do-able, ya just have to inquire and learn.
Well, its school time.
