Some of My Experiences with Health, Healing, Hygiene & Safety Ken Drummond, May 2004
I
thought it might be helpful to share my experiences with health,
healing, and hygiene. Even if you can benefit from just one item that
you find here it will be worth my trouble to write it and your trouble
to read it. These are my own experiences and observations and will not
necessarily apply to or work for anyone else. Some of the instances
might have some humorous value even if they are not useful for health.
I will try to write this in a chronological, biological fashion.
I
dimly recall the weaning process, being given a cup instead of a
bottle. I was used to my bottle and was not happy to have to use a cup,
but I suppose I adjusted.
Hot Tea
I
had an accident when I was one year old. I don't actually recall it, I
think the memory was blocked out due to shock. I was getting used to
walking and was hanging on to objects as I navigated my way around. I
can almost picture seeing the green mug on the edge of the kitchen
table. It was full of freshly poured hot tea but it looked very
inviting as a handhold. Besides, I am sure I was thinking, it was a
unique sort of handle to grab onto. Unfortunately the consequences of
trying to use that cup as a handle were disastrous. The hot liquid
scalded my arm and chest.
I am told that I screamed a great
deal. I don't exactly remember that but I know that I was very good at
crying. They called a doctor -- doctors made house calls in those days
-- but apparently he was drunk and put bandages over the scalded skin.
When the bandages were later removed some of the skin came off too. I
still have a quite prominent scar on a large part of my right upper arm
as a momento.
I often think that I worked out most of my illness
karma in the early part of my life, mostly in my childhood. As a result
the first part of this narrative will deal with these various
problems the body went through. Later on I will discuss various
preventive methods and other discoveries that I have made.
The
reason for sharing these experiences is so that others might benefit
from them in some way. So the lesson from the scalding with the tea cup
is to be careful about not putting hot things where young children can
reach them. My mother, in later years, would instruct me to turn the
handle of pots on the stove inward so that they would not project out
where they could accidentally be bumped. Also, in your next life (mine
anyway) we should not be so interested in showing off in our choice of
handholds as we are learning to walk.
Maple Syrup
Perhaps
my earliest quite vivid memory was when I was two years old. It is not
really health related but it was fun. I suppose it is sort of accident
related. Somehow I contrived to tip over a gallon can of maple syrup. I
suppose the lid was loose and the syrup poured out on the floor. Our
family was not very wealthy so the maple syrup was considered an
expensive and valuable item.
I had great fun walking in the maple
syrup in my shoes. I was fascinated by the way my shoes would be stuck
to the floor by the syrup until I relly lifted up hard, then there
would be a wonderful "unsticking sound". I was playing in the syrup for
some time until I was discovered -- and yelled at much to my surprise
-- since I was having so much fun. So parents, be sure to always
tightly put the lid on containers, you never know what experiments
scientifically oriented children might want to get into.