Dreaded Isolation & A Homeopathic Plug

 

 

Well, just when I thought our isolation time was all done and dusted, now it’s back.

Lewi got whooping cough and so had to be away from people for the 5 days of immune killer pills antibiotics which ends the contagiousness part of the illness. It was difficult but we had friends who gave the whooping cough to Lew visit as well as our other, virtually-family Racz friends {who now have it!! So sorry!}. So it wasn’t complete isolation, I guess. A few days went by where we were able to be out and about again after the antibiotics where done with. We went to the show, did some shopping, visited friends and family and then…

…I got whooping cough. So now it’s back to isolation again and who knows how many more people we infected on our teensy tiny reappearance in the world {though I wasn’t coughing at the time so hopefully everyone is safe and well???}.

Have you ever had whooping cough? It’s a weird one. It honestly resembles a bad chesty/coughy cold type thing {no real sinusy/stuffy headedness, though}. I would never have had Lew tested for it if we hadn’t had contact with our whooping cough friend because he really didn’t get too bad. I put him straight on some homeopathics {drosera and putussin} and it cleared up really, really well. By the time the results came back I had determined, in my head, that he couldn’t possibly have had whooping cough. He did.

I’ve grappled with the whole vaccination/non-vaccination thing ever since Lew was about 4. I had him, ignorantly, vaccinated when he was little and then, by the age of 4, I started to question it. In the end I did have his booster vaccinations given but since then he’s had no others – no chicken pox, no meningococcal, nothing else. Vaccinations really deplete the body’s immune. They can cause many, many side effects that number a very similar amount to getting the diseases via non-vaccination.

The whooping cough one seems to be the biggest of the worst. So many people still get whooping cough even though they are vaccinated. Not only do they get the disease but their body is compromised at an early age by the vaccine itself.

I feel really annoyed by the whole drug company push to make people feel guilty about considering not having their kids vaccinated. I so get why people don’t do it and if I had my time again, I wouldn’t have vaccinated Lew as a baby.

Homeopathics are such a wonderful way of helping the body heal itself. I’m not into all the woo hood, energy stuff behind the concept of homeopathy but  we’ve treated so much homoeopathically in our nest to make me really see the absolute wonderfulness in it.

We have 2 lovely, lovely homeopaths in our town. We are so very lucky. They are such gorgeous human beings too. They really, really care and are only too happy to make up remedies even when they are not working. I love their passion. It so surpasses most of the doctors, who, by the way, have waiting lists as long as you arms to get to see, treatment of illness.

I had to laugh – out loud too – at the doctor that saw me the other day about this whooping cough thing. He was a lovely guy. New to the valley and new to doctoring, I imagine. I went in to tell him what I had and what I needed {just like I normally do!} and he sat there and wrote me a script without much question at all. He did that only after googling his doctory website that only doctors can look at. The internet was down and so we sat in silence with a few, ‘bloody technology’ comments thrown in here and there, while he waited for the site to load. It didn’t. I think it must have been the day that Telstra had a little melt down thingy. He had to resort to the old fashioned, look  up the book technique, only to find the book was not in his bookshelf. After putting in a quick call to a fellow doctor in the next room he asked if she had the book and could she please look it up to tell him what the antibiotic for pertussis was and also the dosage. I should have brought Lewi’s completed box in, would have been a lot quicker. Then it was $65 buckaroos and see you later.

Agh! They wonder why I rarely go in there.

And on a side note, at least I can still catch up with you guys:)

Kim xx