Modern Medicine is a JOKE

As I sit here coughing up what remains of my pathetic excuse for lungs (thank you upper respiratory infection, thank you soooo much)I find myself thinking about how ineffectual modern medicine really is.

Think about it

- Most of the time the side effects of the pill you are prescribed are worse than the original symptom
- Modern medicine usually only seeks to destroy the symptoms, no the actual problem itself
- Doctors tuition's are often paid by the pharmaceutical companies, thus making doctors beholden to pill manufacturers than the actual practice of healing- which is what they are supposed to be doing
- You are forced to pay an arm and a leg for the privilege of seeing a doctor
- Most people, even if they have insurance, don't want to go to the doctor because they don't believe in pills or don't have the money to pay the copay and the prescription, and god help you if you need a procedure or don't have insurance at all. Although I'm pretty sure they took a page out of Rumpelstiltskin's book and will take your first-born child in exchange for a ambulance ride
- Natural cures and health care alternatives are frowned upon and more often than not are not covered in medical insurance. Holistic healers and chiropractors and massage therapists are all apart of medicine, but because the pharmaceutical company holds the laughable health care system by the balls, they are trashed talked and stigmatized as "hippy healers" who don't actually do anything but light incense and pray to Buddha that you'll get better while giving you rutabaga root tea or something ridiculous rather than taking the time to understand and explain that these are actual alternatives.

Personally, I've been prescribed more pills than I can think of and quite frankly, I think I'm worse off. I was ESPECIALLY astonished when my doctor prescribed Neurontin (this is a VERY POWERFUL pain medication that literally stops your neurons from sending pain signals to your brain- I would NEVER take or recommend this pill to ANYONE) and it took almost six months to get feeling in my appendages- no joke. I still have problems with that because I took this pill for six months.

So, I think it's time we take it to the streets- the message that modern medicine is ineffectual, our health care system is a joke, and almost no one can afford to take care of themselves like they should any way.

SO LET'S DO IT PEOPLE!! FIGHT THE FIGHT! SPREAD THE WORD THAT WHAT WE HAVE ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH! THIS IS YOUR HEALTH! WE NEED CHANGE! WE NEED ALTERNATIVES! WE NEED SOMETHING THAT WORKS AND THAT WON'T BREAK THE BANK!

DOWN WITH THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES!!!! DOWN WITH THEM ALL!!!!

I get by with a little help from my friends

Or rather, they get by with a little help from me, lol.

So while I am a self proclaimed narcisit (I am very self involved and very very vain), I do try to do what I can for my friends. And lately, this seems to be employing them.

I have been blessed with an AMAZING job with a growing start up company, and we are growing. First, my best girlfriend needed a job, and I hooked her up, now one of my other best girl friends (who desperately needed a job) has just been offered a position in my company.

Of course, I will say that if they weren't reliable I would NEVER have even entertained the notion of mentioning them to my boss as it's MY ASS on the line if things go sideways with them, but fortunately I only speak to people who don't suck at life (Of course this has also left me with only ten people to speak to- is it just me or do more and more people fail at life every day? God people are idiots!) so giving them an opportunity to impress the higher ups in my company was a natural move.

So I guess this is both a lol at the fact that I'm slowly but surely filling The Bean with my girlfriends, but also a yay for spending more time with my ladies.

I think I may actually like someone...

So... for the first time since my break-up I think I may actually like someone- and not in a 'let's be friends with benefits kind of way,' or a 'let's hang out occasionally and sure I'll make out with you- why not' kind of way. However... I'm still not sure EXACTLY how I feel.

Man, break-ups really fuck with you don't they? (People are SUCH bastards.) I just keep thinking of these song lyrics over and over in my head "I just want to start again/maybe you can show me how to try."

So, I think I may actually take the big leap and let myself like someone... or I'm seriously considering it anyway. So I think I'm going to start shooting some of my inner demons in the face-

Wish me luck!