Rodeo Rider

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Rodeo Rider

The National Rodeo Finals are held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Wes Stevenson won the prize for highest score in bareback riding. Now, we know that the only way to get a high score is to have a wild, bucking horse. You will not get a high score on a lazy, comatose horse. The modern, busy American life is very much like riding a bucking animal. We have little time for thinking, meditating or even reading directions. The prescription from your doctor is for you, and you alone. The most important thing on your prescription, on your bottle of medicine from the pharmacy, are the directions. You hope that your doctor considered your weight, other drugs you are taking. Over 100,000 Americans die every year from adverse reactions to prescription drugs and drug side effects are a leading cause of death in the U.S.

The amount of money spent each year in schools, both public and private, teaching children to read, and young people to have a comprehensive knowledge of world activity is astounding. Perhaps, before the computer, it was excusable that people knew as little about their body, it's nutrition, it's diseases, it's treatments, it's cures because it was necessary to buy books and do much research on your own. Now, it's all available to you. I'm astounded that people will just take any type medication without doing their own research on the computer about the affects and effects of these chemicals. I'm amazed that people are so unaware of the connotations as well as the denotations of their own health. We know that at least 12% of physicians have a drug abuse problem during their career. We know that 1/3rd of nurses have an addictive problem in their career.

Over and over, patient after patient tell me about being given wrong medications in nursing homes. One of my friends told me about his suffering at the hospital while his nurse was taking his pain medicine and she was floating around. An elderly patient at the Catherine Kennedy retirement home told me how her attendant would give her the wrong medication. I instructed her about marking and arranging the bottles so she would know. It did not make much difference, they eventually killed her. You cannot get money out of dead patients. Seldom are they killed, just kept alive enough to keep paying the bills. When will there be better oversight on all healthcare facilities, particularly hospitals? The website, doctorslounge.com tells us that 12,000 deaths occur each year from staphylococcus infections contracted in hospitals, costing 9.5 billion dollars annually. One of the worst is right here in my city. I almost died from staph infection contracted in that hospital … notorious for staph infections. I have told my doctor to never put me there again if he can possibly find a bed anywhere else.

When I was taken back to this hospital deathly ill with staph infection I decided to learn why this hospital had the reputation. At that time, there was over-stuffed chairs in the patients rooms, draperies hanging at the windows, hard to believe, but, carpet up and down corridors … all harbors for bacteria. I approached one of the vice presidents and asked him this question, “Have you people lost your mind? Have you ever studied that you do not have anything in a hospital that will harbor infectious bacteria? Janitorial people actually came in my room sweeping the floor. As old as time, as old as a knowledge of germs, you only use mops in hospital?” He did not last long at that hospital when he began presenting my concerns.

The Bible, God's inspired word, was completed in 95 A.D. In the first 5 books, written by Moses, under the inspiration of God, and throughout the Old Testament, we find all the information we need on healthcare. We can say the same about the 14 books of the New Testament written by the Apostle Paul under the inspiration of God. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve only had one rule which they could not follow, not to eat of the fruit of one tree. Humanity has had a problem following health rules, clean animals (never eat pork, equestrian meat, shell fish etc.). All the plants, herbs, chemicals needed for health are readily available from the time God created the earth. It makes me sick to see advertisements for seedless fruit, genetically modified fruits or vegetables. Study, learn what to eat. Learn how to care for your body. Every practitioner in the healthcare professions learns early that the wellness of any patient is in direct proportion to the amount of money they pay. Most patients do not think advice or remedies are any good unless they pay a tremendous price for such. In this day of fast food, fast service, fast cars, rapid technology, we just want to take a pill that gives us leverage to do anything we want, to eat anything we desire, to give instantaneous, feel good conditions.

In this rodeo world of bucking horses, gauntlets of harassment, escape the complicated, get back to basics, the simple lifestyle, simple adequate healthcare. The Gospel is simple enough for a child, readily demonstrated in Christian Baptists. We are buried with Christ unto death, raised out of the water into life, a new creation, ready to walk in fellowship with Christ.

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in [his] kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. (Eph 2:4-7)