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My brother had no insurance as he had been layed off last year but, our community hospital treated him and they informed us that they are a “not-for-profit” facility and in order to ‘receive’ the grants that they do, they must extend treatment to those that cannot afford it (uninsured). Every year they allocate monies specifically for those of us that do not have insurance. Their grant money depends on this.

I have heard this before from others who know how the medical community works. We are fortunate that mr. mm's job has a good insurance plan and that he's been at this job long enough that my condition does not fall under the *pre-existent* condition category. Matter of fact, much of the medical community doesn't even know about it.

Also, let me add that they have a specific machine in the store; computerized; that detects imperfections in the body. Now this may sound like voodo science but I am here to tell you, he was in very bad shape with his lungs and what they detected and how they treated him (naturally) worked.

I've been seeing a chiropractor, who many people have told me will help. No progress on that front so far, although, I have been very impressed with his evaluation of my physical condition because while it also seems very weird all the muscle weakness testing, he has very accurately detected my inner state based on my physical responses. IOW, when I've been having an unusually good or bad day, he notices it physically and I don't tell him beforehand. I wanted to see what he had to say without any input from me.

And it is weird, like voo-doo medicine, but I am impressed with his evaluations of my physical state.

So whether it works or not is still up in the air.

With foods, the problem I have is that I cannot eat almost all plant material except for oats and cherries in moderation without a reaction. Doesn't matter how *natural* or *organic* or whatever they are. And believe me, I have tried. You don't live like this without exhausting every possibility first.

This condition which I have been diagnosed with is not really an allergy. It's an immune response of some kind, that is true, but all the natural fixes for allergic responses don't work because the reactions are not taking the typical IgE pathway. I do not test allergic to very many foods at all and the ones I do test allergic to indicate only a slight allergy. Neither have I ever had hives or swelling or anaphylactic shock from foods.

I am on a lot of anti-histamines just in case and because sometimes they do seem to help. Other times they don't.

But so far, nobody has been able to figure out the mechanism that is causing the reaction.