Well ignoring advice i didn't take my malaria medicine 3 months ago i was stuffed into a taxi and taken to the hospital i was given fluids and quinine and released the next day total cost $28.00 after reaching usa once again i am taken to hospital with malaria after many days and same treatment was released total cost of hospital $25000. And even though i have medicare i will be penniless for at least one month or more. There is somehow unreality in this. In intensive care at one point i called the nurse and 40 minutes latter they came. At least i am alive but if given a choice i would have accepted death.
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Monday, January 7, 2013
Traditional Medicine
I am suffering from Post traumatic media withdrawal I have lived almost 5 months without a TV and 2 months without a computer. As a results I have become entranced with the oral society which i live in. My soon to be wife chews a weed and blows into my eyes. She keeps doing this until she asks does it hurt yet and then spits out the herb. Strange stories of remote healing a fascinating concept. Seeing a society with only oral traditions adopt the cell phone. Also the backyard producing bananas and of course the tree with produces a ton of fruit, the jack fruit tree. The jack fruit averages about 20lbs but can go up to 80lbs sitting under the jack fruit tree may sound prosaic but can be dangerous. The fruit has inside about 20-30 pods which contain the seeds about the size of a small walnut. The pods are delicious as they have a sweet slightly rubbery consistency. There are other interesting foods , cassava, sweet potato and of course corn. Coming from a heavy media based society to an oral society can be frustrating but that is the adventure.
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