#2017 DC Kidney Walk

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Issa wrap! Team Kenny showed up and showed out. $1400+ raised! 👍🏽 My Team is better than yours! #TeamKenny #TopTeam#DCKidneyWalk #NKF #LinkinBio #Donate #Fundraiser #KidneyWalkLeggo! National Kidney Foundation National Kidney Foundation Serving the National Capital Area

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2017 DC Kidney Walk

Issa wrap! Team Kenny showed up and showed out. $1400+ raised! 👍🏽 My Team is better than yours! #TeamKenny #TopTeam#DCKidneyWalk #NKF #LinkinBio #Donate #Fundraiser #KidneyWalkLeggo! National Kidney Foundation National Kidney Foundation Serving the National Capital Area

[judithcsmith]

This battle to protect Americans with pre-existing conditions is personal

EDITOR’S NOTE: On February 6, 2019, Peter Morley testified before a U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee oversight hearing titled “Impact of the Administration’s Policies Affecting the Affordable Care Act.” Peter’s testimony – about the “critical importance of the Affordable Care Act and the Trump Administration’s ongoing efforts to undermine it” – is one of more than 275 meetings he’s held with legislators in Washington, DC, as a passionate advocate for healthcare that is accessible and affordable to people with Lupus and other chronic illnesses.

We’ve asked Peter to share an abbreviated, edited version of his testimony with our readers. 

My introduction to pre-existing conditions

In 1997, I sustained an injury during a period of time when my insurance coverage had lapsed. I ended up paying the costs of my physical therapy, epidural steroid injections, and medications out of my own pocket. Worse, when I needed surgery a couple of years later, my injury was considered a pre-existing condition and all my claims were denied for the procedure – despite the fact that I’d secured health insurance through my new employer.

The bills from that surgery were an incredible financial burden for years, totaling tens of thousands of dollars. It was my first introduction to the broken United States healthcare system and my real first harrowing encounter with the obstacle called pre-existing conditions. But it was just the beginning.

10+ pre-existing conditions …

In 2007, I was permanently disabled – and rendered unable to work – after I fell from a ladder. (I was fortunate to be spared the entire cost of my medical bills because at that time, I had continuous insurance coverage. Since then, I have had 10 surgeries in 11 years, including four spinal surgeries. Three were failed spinal fusions; the last one caused irreversible nerve damage.)

Four years later, I was diagnosed with kidney cancer and lost part of my right kidney, but fought my way into remission in 2016. Since then, I have had two neurosurgeries for benign pituitary tumors, two carpal tunnel surgeries and one surgery to remove a malignant melanoma.

In addition, I have had diagnoses over the last 11 years that would put me in a veritable Pre-existing Conditions Hall of Fame, with conditions including, but not limited, to:

spinal fusion failure

chronic neuropathic pain

degenerative disc disease in both my cervical and lumbar spine

renal cell carcinoma

benign prostatic hyperplasia

osteoporosis

angiomyolipoma on my left kidney

fibromyalgia

Sjogren’s Syndrome

Raynaud’s Phenomenon

small-fiber neuropathy

nodular regenerative hyperplasia (non-cirrhotic liver disease) with portal hypertension and obliterative portal venopathy; and

adhesive arachnoiditis. (This condition has no cure or successful treatment, and I am progressively losing the function of my right leg as it becomes paralyzed.)

… and counting

As though that weren’t enough, in 2013, I was diagnosed with what has become my primary health concern to-date: Lupus. This autoimmune disease creates autoantibodies that not only attack an invading infection, but also turn and continue to destroy healthy cells and organs, thus causing inflammation known as a Lupus flare. Having this disease means I must be checked frequently by my rheumatologist.

I live w/10+ #PreExistingConditions

I fight fatigue of #Lupus every day to get out of bed.

I survived cancer 2x.

I've walked the halls of Congress since 2017 meeting with your Reps to #ProtectOurCare

I'm fighting for my life & YOURS. Fight with me.

pic.twitter.com/v6DccSHVrs

— Peter Morley (@morethanmySLE) March 27, 2019

Lupus has a multitude of side effects, but for me, the most challenging is the chronic fatigue that I fight every day. It is a struggle and challenge to get out of bed every single day. I take 25 different medications daily, 38 yearly, and receive 12 life-saving infusions yearly for my Lupus.

Without access to insurance, I could not afford to pay for these medications and would lose access to my team of doctors. As a result, my disease would progress, and I could die.

Despite all my health challenges, I have flourished by the continuity of care provided to me by the 17 doctors I see on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual basis. Depending on the week, I spend about 60 to 70 percent of my waking moments in doctors’ offices. And as someone who has faced my own mortality on more than one occasion, I am grateful to be here. I know first-hand how essential it is to protect our care. I also realize that due to my advancing diagnoses I am thankful and appreciative for every day.

From private citizen to public advocate

I want you to know that I was a very private person prior to the 2016 election, but once President Trump was elected, I realized I could no longer keep quiet. I had to – in good conscience – do something to promote healthcare advocacy and empowerment. I recognized that meant I had to share the very personal details of my own story on social media. There are people in my life that were not aware I had kidney cancer or Lupus and have found out through Twitter. That’s how guarded I had been.

But listening to President Trump’s campaign rhetoric for 18 months caused me incredible stress and motivated me to speak my truth.

Before the Affordable Care Act guaranteed health insurance coverage to those with pre-existing conditions, many people like myself with Lupus and my multitude of diagnoses could be denied health insurance policies by many providers.

The ACA defined what benefits insurers would be required to include in order to enroll consumers in health insurance products (including Medicare and Medicaid). Before the ACA was passed, each insurance company had different restrictions as to what services its policies would cover, at what premium cost, and from what providers. Someone at each company would review each claim and decide what to pay.

Standardization of options was intended to reduce non-medical administrative costs and make insurance more affordable.

I think we can all agree that the ACA is not perfect and could greatly benefit from being enhanced. We need to return to the intent to cover 10 essential health benefits. And most importantly improve accessibility and affordability for everyone by lowering premiums, deductibles and drug costs.

In the last two years, I have traveled to DC 16 times to advocate not only for myself, but for thousands of people who have reached out to me through Twitter and my website, morethanmySLE.com.

My first trip to DC

I was inspired to make my first trip to Washington, D.C., on July 27, 2017 – the day of the Vote-a-Rama in the U.S. Senate for the “Skinny Repeal” of the ACA. I had made the trip by Amtrak to DC because I felt helpless sitting at home waiting for the outcome – which seemed likely to be that the ACA was doomed.

That day, I walked in and out of every Senate office I could and spoke with anyone who would listen – Democrat and Republican alike. The very last office I visited was Senator McCain’s office at around 5:15 p.m. Though he wasn’t at his office, I spoke with his Legislative Assistant and shared the story of my healthcare fight. When I told her I had Lupus, she burst into tears.

“I’m sorry,” she said. “My best friend worked here in D.C. and she suffers from Lupus as well and had to move to a climate more conducive to her Lupus. And you sharing your story just reminds me of her and her struggle.”

I had seen some emotional responses that day, but not one like this. I offered the aide information about a hotline that could help her friend get access to care and therapy wherever she was. And, before I left, I begged her to ask Senator McCain to reconsider and vote ‘no,’ explaining to her that were so many people who would suffer.

At the end of the day, I headed home, buoyed by my mission, and feeling I had done all I could. I woke up in the morning and somehow managed to get out of bed with my body ravaged by the energy I expended and the chronic fatigue from my Lupus had been triggered. I fully expected to turn on the TV and learn that the ACA had been repealed. Instead, I saw an image of John McCain giving the vote a thumb’s down and I couldn’t believe what I was looking at.

People began sharing their stories with me and asking me to represent them in D.C. I have made 15 trips to DC since July 2017. I’ve met with Representatives and Senators’ staffs from both parties to share these healthcare journeys because healthcare is a bipartisan issue.

Why I fight

People have told me because of all these healthcare repeal and sabotage efforts, that they feel alone, scared, and afraid, when they should be focusing their energy on their own well-being. The truth is, we all know someone who has been helped by the ACA.

I know firsthand that your health can change in an instant. That is why I fight for my life for those who will be left vulnerable if they lose their healthcare. I will continue to use my voice and encourage people to call their state and federal policy makers, because being proactive is empowering. No one should ever have to worry about having their healthcare taken away from them, simply because they became ill!

I lay awake at night worried about the more than 130 million Americans with pre-existing conditions who would lose their protections if the ACA is declared unconstitutional. Losing access to healthcare means different things to everyone. For me, it would mean not affording prescriptions, and infusions that are keeping me alive.

Due to the chronic fatigue that Lupus causes and my other diagnoses, I realize that I put my own health at great risk to travel and share these stories with members of Congress. I frequently schedule mass meetings because I never know if my visit will be the last time that I’m healthy enough to travel to DC.

But having the opportunity to speak to legislators where there might be one who will listen to me and could change their mind, is the reason I keep coming back. It energizes me and has given me a new sense of purpose in my life.

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[mikalajanie]

This battle to protect Americans with pre-existing conditions is personal

EDITOR’S NOTE: On February 6, 2019, Peter Morley testified before a U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee oversight hearing titled “Impact of the Administration’s Policies Affecting the Affordable Care Act.” Peter’s testimony – about the “critical importance of the Affordable Care Act and the Trump Administration’s ongoing efforts to undermine it” – is one of more than 275 meetings he’s held with legislators in Washington, DC, as a passionate advocate for healthcare that is accessible and affordable to people with Lupus and other chronic illnesses.

We’ve asked Peter to share an abbreviated, edited version of his testimony with our readers. 

My introduction to pre-existing conditions

In 1997, I sustained an injury during a period of time when my insurance coverage had lapsed. I ended up paying the costs of my physical therapy, epidural steroid injections, and medications out of my own pocket. Worse, when I needed surgery a couple of years later, my injury was considered a pre-existing condition and all my claims were denied for the procedure – despite the fact that I’d secured health insurance through my new employer.

The bills from that surgery were an incredible financial burden for years, totaling tens of thousands of dollars. It was my first introduction to the broken United States healthcare system and my real first harrowing encounter with the obstacle called pre-existing conditions. But it was just the beginning.

10+ pre-existing conditions …

In 2007, I was permanently disabled – and rendered unable to work – after I fell from a ladder. (I was fortunate to be spared the entire cost of my medical bills because at that time, I had continuous insurance coverage. Since then, I have had 10 surgeries in 11 years, including four spinal surgeries. Three were failed spinal fusions; the last one caused irreversible nerve damage.)

Four years later, I was diagnosed with kidney cancer and lost part of my right kidney, but fought my way into remission in 2016. Since then, I have had two neurosurgeries for benign pituitary tumors, two carpal tunnel surgeries and one surgery to remove a malignant melanoma.

In addition, I have had diagnoses over the last 11 years that would put me in a veritable Pre-existing Conditions Hall of Fame, with conditions including, but not limited, to:

spinal fusion failure

chronic neuropathic pain

degenerative disc disease in both my cervical and lumbar spine

renal cell carcinoma

benign prostatic hyperplasia

osteoporosis

angiomyolipoma on my left kidney

fibromyalgia

Sjogren’s Syndrome

Raynaud’s Phenomenon

small-fiber neuropathy

nodular regenerative hyperplasia (non-cirrhotic liver disease) with portal hypertension and obliterative portal venopathy; and

adhesive arachnoiditis. (This condition has no cure or successful treatment, and I am progressively losing the function of my right leg as it becomes paralyzed.)

… and counting

As though that weren’t enough, in 2013, I was diagnosed with what has become my primary health concern to-date: Lupus. This autoimmune disease creates autoantibodies that not only attack an invading infection, but also turn and continue to destroy healthy cells and organs, thus causing inflammation known as a Lupus flare. Having this disease means I must be checked frequently by my rheumatologist.

I live w/10+ #PreExistingConditions

I fight fatigue of #Lupus every day to get out of bed.

I survived cancer 2x.

I've walked the halls of Congress since 2017 meeting with your Reps to #ProtectOurCare

I'm fighting for my life & YOURS. Fight with me.

pic.twitter.com/v6DccSHVrs

— Peter Morley (@morethanmySLE) March 27, 2019

Lupus has a multitude of side effects, but for me, the most challenging is the chronic fatigue that I fight every day. It is a struggle and challenge to get out of bed every single day. I take 25 different medications daily, 38 yearly, and receive 12 life-saving infusions yearly for my Lupus.

Without access to insurance, I could not afford to pay for these medications and would lose access to my team of doctors. As a result, my disease would progress, and I could die.

Despite all my health challenges, I have flourished by the continuity of care provided to me by the 17 doctors I see on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual basis. Depending on the week, I spend about 60 to 70 percent of my waking moments in doctors’ offices. And as someone who has faced my own mortality on more than one occasion, I am grateful to be here. I know first-hand how essential it is to protect our care. I also realize that due to my advancing diagnoses I am thankful and appreciative for every day.

From private citizen to public advocate

I want you to know that I was a very private person prior to the 2016 election, but once President Trump was elected, I realized I could no longer keep quiet. I had to – in good conscience – do something to promote healthcare advocacy and empowerment. I recognized that meant I had to share the very personal details of my own story on social media. There are people in my life that were not aware I had kidney cancer or Lupus and have found out through Twitter. That’s how guarded I had been.

But listening to President Trump’s campaign rhetoric for 18 months caused me incredible stress and motivated me to speak my truth.

Before the Affordable Care Act guaranteed health insurance coverage to those with pre-existing conditions, many people like myself with Lupus and my multitude of diagnoses could be denied health insurance policies by many providers.

The ACA defined what benefits insurers would be required to include in order to enroll consumers in health insurance products (including Medicare and Medicaid). Before the ACA was passed, each insurance company had different restrictions as to what services its policies would cover, at what premium cost, and from what providers. Someone at each company would review each claim and decide what to pay.

Standardization of options was intended to reduce non-medical administrative costs and make insurance more affordable.

I think we can all agree that the ACA is not perfect and could greatly benefit from being enhanced. We need to return to the intent to cover 10 essential health benefits. And most importantly improve accessibility and affordability for everyone by lowering premiums, deductibles and drug costs.

In the last two years, I have traveled to DC 16 times to advocate not only for myself, but for thousands of people who have reached out to me through Twitter and my website, morethanmySLE.com.

My first trip to DC

I was inspired to make my first trip to Washington, D.C., on July 27, 2017 – the day of the Vote-a-Rama in the U.S. Senate for the “Skinny Repeal” of the ACA. I had made the trip by Amtrak to DC because I felt helpless sitting at home waiting for the outcome – which seemed likely to be that the ACA was doomed.

That day, I walked in and out of every Senate office I could and spoke with anyone who would listen – Democrat and Republican alike. The very last office I visited was Senator McCain’s office at around 5:15 p.m. Though he wasn’t at his office, I spoke with his Legislative Assistant and shared the story of my healthcare fight. When I told her I had Lupus, she burst into tears.

“I’m sorry,” she said. “My best friend worked here in D.C. and she suffers from Lupus as well and had to move to a climate more conducive to her Lupus. And you sharing your story just reminds me of her and her struggle.”

I had seen some emotional responses that day, but not one like this. I offered the aide information about a hotline that could help her friend get access to care and therapy wherever she was. And, before I left, I begged her to ask Senator McCain to reconsider and vote ‘no,’ explaining to her that were so many people who would suffer.

At the end of the day, I headed home, buoyed by my mission, and feeling I had done all I could. I woke up in the morning and somehow managed to get out of bed with my body ravaged by the energy I expended and the chronic fatigue from my Lupus had been triggered. I fully expected to turn on the TV and learn that the ACA had been repealed. Instead, I saw an image of John McCain giving the vote a thumb’s down and I couldn’t believe what I was looking at.

People began sharing their stories with me and asking me to represent them in D.C. I have made 15 trips to DC since July 2017. I’ve met with Representatives and Senators’ staffs from both parties to share these healthcare journeys because healthcare is a bipartisan issue.

Why I fight

People have told me because of all these healthcare repeal and sabotage efforts, that they feel alone, scared, and afraid, when they should be focusing their energy on their own well-being. The truth is, we all know someone who has been helped by the ACA.

I know firsthand that your health can change in an instant. That is why I fight for my life for those who will be left vulnerable if they lose their healthcare. I will continue to use my voice and encourage people to call their state and federal policy makers, because being proactive is empowering. No one should ever have to worry about having their healthcare taken away from them, simply because they became ill!

I lay awake at night worried about the more than 130 million Americans with pre-existing conditions who would lose their protections if the ACA is declared unconstitutional. Losing access to healthcare means different things to everyone. For me, it would mean not affording prescriptions, and infusions that are keeping me alive.

Due to the chronic fatigue that Lupus causes and my other diagnoses, I realize that I put my own health at great risk to travel and share these stories with members of Congress. I frequently schedule mass meetings because I never know if my visit will be the last time that I’m healthy enough to travel to DC.

But having the opportunity to speak to legislators where there might be one who will listen to me and could change their mind, is the reason I keep coming back. It energizes me and has given me a new sense of purpose in my life.

from https://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2019/03/28/this-battle-to-protect-americans-with-pre-existing-conditions-is-personal/

[janekira2]

This battle to protect Americans with pre-existing conditions is personal

EDITOR’S NOTE: On February 6, 2019, Peter Morley testified before a U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee oversight hearing titled “Impact of the Administration’s Policies Affecting the Affordable Care Act.” Peter’s testimony – about the “critical importance of the Affordable Care Act and the Trump Administration’s ongoing efforts to undermine it” – is one of more than 275 meetings he’s held with legislators in Washington, DC, as a passionate advocate for healthcare that is accessible and affordable to people with Lupus and other chronic illnesses.

We’ve asked Peter to share an abbreviated, edited version of his testimony with our readers. 

My introduction to pre-existing conditions

In 1997, I sustained an injury during a period of time when my insurance coverage had lapsed. I ended up paying the costs of my physical therapy, epidural steroid injections, and medications out of my own pocket. Worse, when I needed surgery a couple of years later, my injury was considered a pre-existing condition and all my claims were denied for the procedure – despite the fact that I’d secured health insurance through my new employer.

The bills from that surgery were an incredible financial burden for years, totaling tens of thousands of dollars. It was my first introduction to the broken United States healthcare system and my real first harrowing encounter with the obstacle called pre-existing conditions. But it was just the beginning.

10+ pre-existing conditions …

In 2007, I was permanently disabled – and rendered unable to work – after I fell from a ladder. (I was fortunate to be spared the entire cost of my medical bills because at that time, I had continuous insurance coverage. Since then, I have had 10 surgeries in 11 years, including four spinal surgeries. Three were failed spinal fusions; the last one caused irreversible nerve damage.)

Four years later, I was diagnosed with kidney cancer and lost part of my right kidney, but fought my way into remission in 2016. Since then, I have had two neurosurgeries for benign pituitary tumors, two carpal tunnel surgeries and one surgery to remove a malignant melanoma.

In addition, I have had diagnoses over the last 11 years that would put me in a veritable Pre-existing Conditions Hall of Fame, with conditions including, but not limited, to:

spinal fusion failure

chronic neuropathic pain

degenerative disc disease in both my cervical and lumbar spine

renal cell carcinoma

benign prostatic hyperplasia

osteoporosis

angiomyolipoma on my left kidney

fibromyalgia

Sjogren’s Syndrome

Raynaud’s Phenomenon

small-fiber neuropathy

nodular regenerative hyperplasia (non-cirrhotic liver disease) with portal hypertension and obliterative portal venopathy; and

adhesive arachnoiditis. (This condition has no cure or successful treatment, and I am progressively losing the function of my right leg as it becomes paralyzed.)

… and counting

As though that weren’t enough, in 2013, I was diagnosed with what has become my primary health concern to-date: Lupus. This autoimmune disease creates autoantibodies that not only attack an invading infection, but also turn and continue to destroy healthy cells and organs, thus causing inflammation known as a Lupus flare. Having this disease means I must be checked frequently by my rheumatologist.

I live w/10+ #PreExistingConditions

I fight fatigue of #Lupus every day to get out of bed.

I survived cancer 2x.

I've walked the halls of Congress since 2017 meeting with your Reps to #ProtectOurCare

I'm fighting for my life & YOURS. Fight with me.

pic.twitter.com/v6DccSHVrs

— Peter Morley (@morethanmySLE) March 27, 2019

Lupus has a multitude of side effects, but for me, the most challenging is the chronic fatigue that I fight every day. It is a struggle and challenge to get out of bed every single day. I take 25 different medications daily, 38 yearly, and receive 12 life-saving infusions yearly for my Lupus.

Without access to insurance, I could not afford to pay for these medications and would lose access to my team of doctors. As a result, my disease would progress, and I could die.

Despite all my health challenges, I have flourished by the continuity of care provided to me by the 17 doctors I see on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual basis. Depending on the week, I spend about 60 to 70 percent of my waking moments in doctors’ offices. And as someone who has faced my own mortality on more than one occasion, I am grateful to be here. I know first-hand how essential it is to protect our care. I also realize that due to my advancing diagnoses I am thankful and appreciative for every day.

From private citizen to public advocate

I want you to know that I was a very private person prior to the 2016 election, but once President Trump was elected, I realized I could no longer keep quiet. I had to – in good conscience – do something to promote healthcare advocacy and empowerment. I recognized that meant I had to share the very personal details of my own story on social media. There are people in my life that were not aware I had kidney cancer or Lupus and have found out through Twitter. That’s how guarded I had been.

But listening to President Trump’s campaign rhetoric for 18 months caused me incredible stress and motivated me to speak my truth.

Before the Affordable Care Act guaranteed health insurance coverage to those with pre-existing conditions, many people like myself with Lupus and my multitude of diagnoses could be denied health insurance policies by many providers.

The ACA defined what benefits insurers would be required to include in order to enroll consumers in health insurance products (including Medicare and Medicaid). Before the ACA was passed, each insurance company had different restrictions as to what services its policies would cover, at what premium cost, and from what providers. Someone at each company would review each claim and decide what to pay.

Standardization of options was intended to reduce non-medical administrative costs and make insurance more affordable.

I think we can all agree that the ACA is not perfect and could greatly benefit from being enhanced. We need to return to the intent to cover 10 essential health benefits. And most importantly improve accessibility and affordability for everyone by lowering premiums, deductibles and drug costs.

In the last two years, I have traveled to DC 16 times to advocate not only for myself, but for thousands of people who have reached out to me through Twitter and my website, morethanmySLE.com.

My first trip to DC

I was inspired to make my first trip to Washington, D.C., on July 27, 2017 – the day of the Vote-a-Rama in the U.S. Senate for the “Skinny Repeal” of the ACA. I had made the trip by Amtrak to DC because I felt helpless sitting at home waiting for the outcome – which seemed likely to be that the ACA was doomed.

That day, I walked in and out of every Senate office I could and spoke with anyone who would listen – Democrat and Republican alike. The very last office I visited was Senator McCain’s office at around 5:15 p.m. Though he wasn’t at his office, I spoke with his Legislative Assistant and shared the story of my healthcare fight. When I told her I had Lupus, she burst into tears.

“I’m sorry,” she said. “My best friend worked here in D.C. and she suffers from Lupus as well and had to move to a climate more conducive to her Lupus. And you sharing your story just reminds me of her and her struggle.”

I had seen some emotional responses that day, but not one like this. I offered the aide information about a hotline that could help her friend get access to care and therapy wherever she was. And, before I left, I begged her to ask Senator McCain to reconsider and vote ‘no,’ explaining to her that were so many people who would suffer.

At the end of the day, I headed home, buoyed by my mission, and feeling I had done all I could. I woke up in the morning and somehow managed to get out of bed with my body ravaged by the energy I expended and the chronic fatigue from my Lupus had been triggered. I fully expected to turn on the TV and learn that the ACA had been repealed. Instead, I saw an image of John McCain giving the vote a thumb’s down and I couldn’t believe what I was looking at.

People began sharing their stories with me and asking me to represent them in D.C. I have made 15 trips to DC since July 2017. I’ve met with Representatives and Senators’ staffs from both parties to share these healthcare journeys because healthcare is a bipartisan issue.

Why I fight

People have told me because of all these healthcare repeal and sabotage efforts, that they feel alone, scared, and afraid, when they should be focusing their energy on their own well-being. The truth is, we all know someone who has been helped by the ACA.

I know firsthand that your health can change in an instant. That is why I fight for my life for those who will be left vulnerable if they lose their healthcare. I will continue to use my voice and encourage people to call their state and federal policy makers, because being proactive is empowering. No one should ever have to worry about having their healthcare taken away from them, simply because they became ill!

I lay awake at night worried about the more than 130 million Americans with pre-existing conditions who would lose their protections if the ACA is declared unconstitutional. Losing access to healthcare means different things to everyone. For me, it would mean not affording prescriptions, and infusions that are keeping me alive.

Due to the chronic fatigue that Lupus causes and my other diagnoses, I realize that I put my own health at great risk to travel and share these stories with members of Congress. I frequently schedule mass meetings because I never know if my visit will be the last time that I’m healthy enough to travel to DC.

But having the opportunity to speak to legislators where there might be one who will listen to me and could change their mind, is the reason I keep coming back. It energizes me and has given me a new sense of purpose in my life.

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[johndonohueus]

This battle to protect Americans with pre-existing conditions is personal

EDITOR’S NOTE: On February 6, 2019, Peter Morley testified before a U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee oversight hearing titled “Impact of the Administration’s Policies Affecting the Affordable Care Act.” Peter’s testimony – about the “critical importance of the Affordable Care Act and the Trump Administration’s ongoing efforts to undermine it” – is one of more than 275 meetings he’s held with legislators in Washington, DC, as a passionate advocate for healthcare that is accessible and affordable to people with Lupus and other chronic illnesses.

We’ve asked Peter to share an abbreviated, edited version of his testimony with our readers. 

My introduction to pre-existing conditions

In 1997, I sustained an injury during a period of time when my insurance coverage had lapsed. I ended up paying the costs of my physical therapy, epidural steroid injections, and medications out of my own pocket. Worse, when I needed surgery a couple of years later, my injury was considered a pre-existing condition and all my claims were denied for the procedure – despite the fact that I’d secured health insurance through my new employer.

The bills from that surgery were an incredible financial burden for years, totaling tens of thousands of dollars. It was my first introduction to the broken United States healthcare system and my real first harrowing encounter with the obstacle called pre-existing conditions. But it was just the beginning.

10+ pre-existing conditions …

In 2007, I was permanently disabled – and rendered unable to work – after I fell from a ladder. (I was fortunate to be spared the entire cost of my medical bills because at that time, I had continuous insurance coverage. Since then, I have had 10 surgeries in 11 years, including four spinal surgeries. Three were failed spinal fusions; the last one caused irreversible nerve damage.)

Four years later, I was diagnosed with kidney cancer and lost part of my right kidney, but fought my way into remission in 2016. Since then, I have had two neurosurgeries for benign pituitary tumors, two carpal tunnel surgeries and one surgery to remove a malignant melanoma.

In addition, I have had diagnoses over the last 11 years that would put me in a veritable Pre-existing Conditions Hall of Fame, with conditions including, but not limited, to:

spinal fusion failure

chronic neuropathic pain

degenerative disc disease in both my cervical and lumbar spine

renal cell carcinoma

benign prostatic hyperplasia

osteoporosis

angiomyolipoma on my left kidney

fibromyalgia

Sjogren’s Syndrome

Raynaud’s Phenomenon

small-fiber neuropathy

nodular regenerative hyperplasia (non-cirrhotic liver disease) with portal hypertension and obliterative portal venopathy; and

adhesive arachnoiditis. (This condition has no cure or successful treatment, and I am progressively losing the function of my right leg as it becomes paralyzed.)

… and counting

As though that weren’t enough, in 2013, I was diagnosed with what has become my primary health concern to-date: Lupus. This autoimmune disease creates autoantibodies that not only attack an invading infection, but also turn and continue to destroy healthy cells and organs, thus causing inflammation known as a Lupus flare. Having this disease means I must be checked frequently by my rheumatologist.

I live w/10+ #PreExistingConditions

I fight fatigue of #Lupus every day to get out of bed.

I survived cancer 2x.

I've walked the halls of Congress since 2017 meeting with your Reps to #ProtectOurCare

I'm fighting for my life & YOURS. Fight with me.

pic.twitter.com/v6DccSHVrs

— Peter Morley (@morethanmySLE) March 27, 2019

Lupus has a multitude of side effects, but for me, the most challenging is the chronic fatigue that I fight every day. It is a struggle and challenge to get out of bed every single day. I take 25 different medications daily, 38 yearly, and receive 12 life-saving infusions yearly for my Lupus.

Without access to insurance, I could not afford to pay for these medications and would lose access to my team of doctors. As a result, my disease would progress, and I could die.

Despite all my health challenges, I have flourished by the continuity of care provided to me by the 17 doctors I see on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual basis. Depending on the week, I spend about 60 to 70 percent of my waking moments in doctors’ offices. And as someone who has faced my own mortality on more than one occasion, I am grateful to be here. I know first-hand how essential it is to protect our care. I also realize that due to my advancing diagnoses I am thankful and appreciative for every day.

From private citizen to public advocate

I want you to know that I was a very private person prior to the 2016 election, but once President Trump was elected, I realized I could no longer keep quiet. I had to – in good conscience – do something to promote healthcare advocacy and empowerment. I recognized that meant I had to share the very personal details of my own story on social media. There are people in my life that were not aware I had kidney cancer or Lupus and have found out through Twitter. That’s how guarded I had been.

But listening to President Trump’s campaign rhetoric for 18 months caused me incredible stress and motivated me to speak my truth.

Before the Affordable Care Act guaranteed health insurance coverage to those with pre-existing conditions, many people like myself with Lupus and my multitude of diagnoses could be denied health insurance policies by many providers.

The ACA defined what benefits insurers would be required to include in order to enroll consumers in health insurance products (including Medicare and Medicaid). Before the ACA was passed, each insurance company had different restrictions as to what services its policies would cover, at what premium cost, and from what providers. Someone at each company would review each claim and decide what to pay.

Standardization of options was intended to reduce non-medical administrative costs and make insurance more affordable.

I think we can all agree that the ACA is not perfect and could greatly benefit from being enhanced. We need to return to the intent to cover 10 essential health benefits. And most importantly improve accessibility and affordability for everyone by lowering premiums, deductibles and drug costs.

In the last two years, I have traveled to DC 16 times to advocate not only for myself, but for thousands of people who have reached out to me through Twitter and my website, morethanmySLE.com.

My first trip to DC

I was inspired to make my first trip to Washington, D.C., on July 27, 2017 – the day of the Vote-a-Rama in the U.S. Senate for the “Skinny Repeal” of the ACA. I had made the trip by Amtrak to DC because I felt helpless sitting at home waiting for the outcome – which seemed likely to be that the ACA was doomed.

That day, I walked in and out of every Senate office I could and spoke with anyone who would listen – Democrat and Republican alike. The very last office I visited was Senator McCain’s office at around 5:15 p.m. Though he wasn’t at his office, I spoke with his Legislative Assistant and shared the story of my healthcare fight. When I told her I had Lupus, she burst into tears.

“I’m sorry,” she said. “My best friend worked here in D.C. and she suffers from Lupus as well and had to move to a climate more conducive to her Lupus. And you sharing your story just reminds me of her and her struggle.”

I had seen some emotional responses that day, but not one like this. I offered the aide information about a hotline that could help her friend get access to care and therapy wherever she was. And, before I left, I begged her to ask Senator McCain to reconsider and vote ‘no,’ explaining to her that were so many people who would suffer.

At the end of the day, I headed home, buoyed by my mission, and feeling I had done all I could. I woke up in the morning and somehow managed to get out of bed with my body ravaged by the energy I expended and the chronic fatigue from my Lupus had been triggered. I fully expected to turn on the TV and learn that the ACA had been repealed. Instead, I saw an image of John McCain giving the vote a thumb’s down and I couldn’t believe what I was looking at.

People began sharing their stories with me and asking me to represent them in D.C. I have made 15 trips to DC since July 2017. I’ve met with Representatives and Senators’ staffs from both parties to share these healthcare journeys because healthcare is a bipartisan issue.

Why I fight

People have told me because of all these healthcare repeal and sabotage efforts, that they feel alone, scared, and afraid, when they should be focusing their energy on their own well-being. The truth is, we all know someone who has been helped by the ACA.

I know firsthand that your health can change in an instant. That is why I fight for my life for those who will be left vulnerable if they lose their healthcare. I will continue to use my voice and encourage people to call their state and federal policy makers, because being proactive is empowering. No one should ever have to worry about having their healthcare taken away from them, simply because they became ill!

I lay awake at night worried about the more than 130 million Americans with pre-existing conditions who would lose their protections if the ACA is declared unconstitutional. Losing access to healthcare means different things to everyone. For me, it would mean not affording prescriptions, and infusions that are keeping me alive.

Due to the chronic fatigue that Lupus causes and my other diagnoses, I realize that I put my own health at great risk to travel and share these stories with members of Congress. I frequently schedule mass meetings because I never know if my visit will be the last time that I’m healthy enough to travel to DC.

But having the opportunity to speak to legislators where there might be one who will listen to me and could change their mind, is the reason I keep coming back. It energizes me and has given me a new sense of purpose in my life.

from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8246807 https://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2019/03/28/this-battle-to-protect-americans-with-pre-existing-conditions-is-personal/

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24th April 2017

I’m slowly getting more ill as the days go by. Stupid cold! Steve was up and out for work by 0645. I was in a positive mood for work because I knew what I had to do when I got there and it was probably going to take all day.

I got to work and sat at my desk. I was sorting out government departments in jurisdiction order and in state order including The Commonwealth, Tasmania and New Zealand. I then had to sort out contact details I had for the relevant people in the relevant departments. There’s about 20 different departments like ‘Department of Attorney General and Justice’, hence why it took me all day. I’ve been using excel spreadsheets which are brilliant except the last person who had to sort the database out didn’t put them in ANY order. It took me hours to filter through. I had no idea whether what I was doing was right either because I had only been verbally told what to do yesterday. Lisa hadn’t checked whether what I was doing was right, in fact she never came up to me at all. I couldn’t even tell you if she was in or not.

The day flew by stupidly fast. Before I knew it, it was 1600. I had found a few other databases on the G Drive so I flicked through those finding other relevant contact details. I hadn’t been asked to do it but I was finished and Lisa wasn’t in her office. I couldn’t sit there doing nothing… I found loads more contacts so I’m sure it’d be fine.

Lisa eventually caught up with me around 1630 to check how I was getting on. Better late than never I guess. She was happy with what I had done and said that I’d be ready to start making calls tomorrow. I can’t see how this is going to last three weeks though. The computers stopped working around 1640 so I was able to leave early. Hooray. The company switched over internet companies on Monday hence all the trouble they’ve been having. They’ve got agency internet wizzes in all week to help.

I got home and Steve was home from work already. He spent the day knocking down part of a house to build an extension. He then had to clear it up which I didn’t know he knew what “clean up” meant.

I chilled on my bed chatting away to Meg and Dan before going down to make dinner. I had bought a Thai green curry paste for a big vegetable curry type thing. I mixed in a bag of mixed veg, chick peas, kidney beans, green lentils and sweet corn. Sounds disgusting but it was delicious, considering I don’t like spice. I added skimmed milk rather than coconut and some yoghurt too. I made a massive batch, enough for 3-4 dinners.

After dinner, Steve and I went for a walk to see the lights for Manchester. Steve had found out that The Town Hall and The State Library were going to be lit up in red, white and blue for Britain.

We had to be back for 2000 because we were having a family film watching The BFG. Sophie, Becky, Meg, Steve and I got comfortable on our beanbags. Wednesday night is movie night so they make and hand out free popcorn which is nice.

I didn’t particularly like the film if I’m honest. Steve laughed a lot during it. I can imagine it would be something my dad would enjoy. I LOVED the BFG character himself but the film lost me half way through. I know they have to copy the book but it was rubbish.

It was 2200 when it finished so it was time for bed. Unfortunately, the Dutch/Japanese female left our room and we have a new roommate from DC. She’s loud and doesn’t really understand “bed for work in the morning”. We had to wait for her to sort her stuff out before turning the light off. It was 2300 by the time that happened. Worst part about hostels. I was exhausted. Steve's alarm was on for 0415 to go the Crown to watch football. Knowing him, he won't wake up for it. In fact, I'd put money on it.

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The Big Take Down

This is the most accurate gathering of info I have found thus far Q WWG1WGA 🇺🇸

Via: John Brown

TAKE DOWN OF THE CABAL AGAINST ALL ODDS BY TRUMP, NSA, Q & JFK JR

Donald J. Trump did not want to be POTUS. Trump was enlisted by Q and the Earth Alliance (EA). They needed a man who was not part of the deep state and who could pay for his own campaign.

Trump didn’t want to run. When Trump was first approached by the EA, he refused. But over a 2-week period, he was shown everything the NSA had on the deep state/cabal/illuminati.

At the end of those 2 harrowing weeks, for the love of his country, Humanity, and for the love of all God given rights and freedoms that should automatically be granted to all God-created Souls—Donald J. Trump ran for POTUS and won in a landslide.

Since Trump has been in office he has donated his $400k POTUS salary and his businesses have lost money. He became POTUS with the hallowed understanding of these words: God. Country. Service. Love.

A year before Trump announced his candidacy on June 16, 2015, Kim Clement in a sermon on February 22, 2014, Clement said, "Trump was God's Choice! He is a genius. He will throttle the enemies of the West, or true Israel.

"They will shout 'impeach, impeach, but this won't happen. This nation will come very subtly. He is a man of prayer, choice words, not verbose and may even say he is not speaking enough.

"The people were asking how to kill the giant socialist deep state. God said, "I have placed that man amongst you. And those that reject him will be shocked at how quickly he takes the giant down. They will laugh at him, but the Divine Plan that came from Me is so brilliant!"

The 2nd key point is that one needs to have a clear understanding of what adrenochrome is because the evil empire that Trump, Q, The Alliance and NSA have defeated, the deep state / illuminati / cabal and their minions, are the most horrific vile disgusting evil of the deepest darkest evil that has ever existed in all Creation — they harvest adrenochrome from angelic terrified children who they torture and then murder in their sick revolting grisly satanic rituals.

A gifted-healer-friend, who has worked with survivors for many years, gave me a definition of adrenochrome. It is too vile and she didn’t think the general public was ready for it. So instead, here is the eloquent Sacha Stone who on April 24, 2020 said, "Adrenochrome is a psycho-active molecule that is activated in Human blood when the Human subject or victim is tortured. In the same way that a cat toys with the mouse before eviscerating it and pulling out its kidneys and slowly killing it. It is known to the Feline species that the more you adrenalize the blood of the victim the more prana or life force you can induce through the in-taking of that blood.

"So in simple terms, these sociopathic sub-human entities that proliferate in Hollywood and on the big screen, and pop idols,  nd Rock Gods, and Sports idols, amongst Political leadership, elements within Royalty as well as boxes of the Corporatocracy, the Oligarchies and the powerful Technocrats that exist in Government, in the Banking sector, in the commercial arena, in the Military Industrial Complex, in the Mainstream media and the press as well.

"These folks are variously conjoined in blood covenant through long standing blood ritualism. It sounds absurd, like a bad BATMAN script, but it’s all too real. The fact of the matter is that this goes on. The adrenochrome molecule is arguably the most prized element on Earth, with a higher value one imagines than even platinum or Helium-3 which you can only scoop off the Moon.

"So the fact is that to get a pranic rush similar to a hyper-dimensional cocaine rush, in harvesting blood, you first terrorize the victim and  conduct the most aberrant satanic ritual becomes of paramount importance to this diabolical echelon.

"What they are requiring is to be anchored to the Temporal [Earthly] plane, because they’ve already abnegated their consciousness and their conscience. Their Spiritual sacrament has been so violated through their own choice in surrendering or abnegating their true conscience that they have already been walked into and are now under the remote influence of the Egregore, or the lower astral intelligence, or the demon, if you wish to look at it that way.

"The bottom line is they’re sub-human, not Homo Sapiens Universalis, or Homo sapiens sapiens, or Homo sapiens freighter like we are. They are absent in their capacity for empathy, compassion, to love or be loved and my heart goes out to them for that fact.

"But that again was a chronology and a pathology of choice that was made and taken by each of them. So they’ve got to the point where the only way that energy can anchor through them in the Temporal/Earthly realm is to continue imbibing the adrenochrome or the traumatized blood. So in simple terms that’s why.

"Why the toddlers are sodomized and raped is because it’s an inversion of kundalini. It’s a technique to inverse the life force, the prana, the kundalini, the chi of that victim, in order to induce or transduce that very hyper-dimensionally active life force into the perpetrator.

"It’s very ugly stuff. But when you get into advanced satanism that’s the game you play or you perish, because by the time you learn about blood drinking and the fact that you are required to go into the blood covenant, it’s normally too late for you to extricate yourself."

That, my friends, is what Pres. Trump, Q, NSA and EA have soundly defeated—an army of demons that had run rampant on this blessed Earth, infecting every aspect of our lives with fiendish imprisonment.

After all their crimes have been publicly pronounced and the punishments handed down according to Earthly tribunals as well as Divine tribunals—the New World of Light, Freedom, Love, Kindness, Abundance, Health and Peace will begin in earnest for Gaia, her Kingdoms, Humanity and our children.

And we won't have to wait much longer for miracles and wonders because the RV, GCR, NESARA and GESARA are well on their way.

Charlie Freak said, "CNN is now is control by POTUS, Donald J. Trump. Boris Johnson and the British government is under control of POTUS, NSA and the Q-plan and Q group. This is ALL being run by this group. Every single government on Earth, all of them, have capitulated over to Trump from 2017 to early 2019. He hit the ground running.

"He took 6-months to clean house, clean the swamp in Washington DC and then he went to Saudi Arabia first. There’s a reason. He needed to go to Saudi Arabia first in the Summer of 2017.

"It's really up to us. If we weren't so sound asleep none of this would have been allowed to happen in the first place.

"We should have woken up to the milk cartons of MISSING children 30-40 years ago, with all of these children going missing. What the heck are so many going missing for and why are so many kids on Milk Cartons?

MISSING CHILDREN PER YEAR

America 800k UK 230k Germany 100k Canada 50.5k Mexico 45k Brazil 40k France 39k

TOTAL: 1 million 264 thousand children missing per year that we know about.

"All of us are responsible for this. But see this as an opportunity. The next 6-months are an opportunity for all of you to become the kind of hero that you’ve always wanted to be in your eyes. Trust in YOU! Trust in the Plan that there are good people fighting against the sickest most evil people in the creation so get up and be part of this! Let’s support them, we’re the Digital Warriors. Be strong for your kids like you already are, don’t just sit back and think, 'Trump’s going to do everything. No it’s YOUR country, not theirs.

"Everything is about Donald Trump and the abbreviation you get with Q called DECLAS. It’s short for De-Classified, the main people behind all of this have been the NSA, because once the Military was given access to cameras everywhere, spying technology everywhere, access to your cell phone, to everything about you, as soon as that information became available, a group of people within the Military said, 'This is our chance to get the cabal, this is our moment in time and we must act upon this.

"Because they don’t seem to know that the cabal minions, or foot soldiers, whomever is hidden in the background are just as vulnerable as we are. And so what has been going on, my friends, since 9-11 (how evil, of God killing God on Sept. 11, 2001). That was the symbology of it. They were laying out for us in plain sight what they were about to do and finish.

"And the Coronavirus through the 5G Towers. The 5G wireless signal was their coup de grâce, their killshot for us and everything went wrong when Hilary didn’t win that election and what you all need to wrap your minds around is that they, still to this day, don’t understand how they lost that election in 2016 to Donald Trump because it was so rigged in their favor. The machines were rigged in all the key states. Trump actually won in a landslide. It was a runaway for Trump across the entire land. If Hilary winning had happened we’d already be in these FEMA camps, locked in our homes. Those of us who didn’t comply to them would be in FEMA camps or body bags.

"So it all starts with the symbol DECLAS, declassified, that comes from the NSA. They’ve been spying on them and they HAVE IT all and NOTHING CAN STOP THIS PLAN that’s coming.

"Julian Assange has been a big player. Eventually when the truth comes out about Julian Assange you’ll go, oh, I should have noticed that. There's a remarkable physical resemblance to Dr. John G. Trump, POTUS’ uncle and Julian Assange.

"John George Trump (August 21, 1907 – February 21, 1985) was an American electrical engineer, inventor, and physicist. A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1936 to 1973, he was a recipient of the National Medal of Science and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. John Trump was noted for developing rotational radiation therapy. Together with Robert J. Van de Graaff, he developed one of the first million-volt X-ray generators. He was the paternal uncle of Pres. Donald Trump. ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Trump.

"Assange isn't really under arrest. It was all part of a ruse for the Mainstream Media to buy into it, to brand him a certain way. He’s played a very dangerous role. None of this has been safe and easy for Julian Assange. He’s put himself at risk, but then that whole Trump family has.

"And there’s much more to this Trump family that we’re talking about that is yet to come. You don’t know all of it yet, what's coming out next. There will be another person in this family that’s going to be able to shine in the coming months because this is all about Technology at the end of the day and making electricity free again via Tesla.

"AG Barr was placed well in advance to be a fly on the wall for the CIA. They realized a long time ago, from the Kennedys, that the CIA was too far gone and too dangerous to try and take down, too many [CIA] tentacles out there, so they haven’t even tried to take down the CIA, they just cut them off. The CIA is now what it has always been it’s just in plain sight now, a rogue agency, they exist for the 13-families and that’s all they answer to. JFK said, “I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.”

THE13 BLOODLINE FAMILIES

1 House of Borja 2 House of Breakspeare 3 House of Somaglia 4 House of Orsini 5 House of Conti 6 House of Chigi 7 House of Colonna 8 House of Farnese 9 House of Medici 10 House of Gaetani 11 House of Pamphili 12 House of Este 13 House of Aldobrandini

"AG Barr has gleaned a lot of information that’s been valuable in helping them understand the CIA’s role in all of this and what they were likely to do when this all came down, so, DECLAS is everything because the NSA and Trump have Everything.

"By June of 2017, only 6-months in office, Trump had, for the most part, cleaned most of the swamp, restructured the DOJ and the FBI, which is most important and some other key offices closer to home, closer to the Pres., were all cleaned out and the proper people that they had waiting in the wings were put in place.

"In the Summer of 2017 Trump first went to Saudi Arabia. He paid a visit to the Crown Prince Alwaleed bin Talal at that time. Alwaleed got right into the adrenochrome thing and the harvesting of children and Saudi Arabia began to put in massive tunnel networks underneath the ground because Alwaleed got sucked in by the cabal/the 13-Families as a HUGE player, one of the 3-main arms of their cabal weaponry.

"He was exalted with enormous power among the minions. Alwaleed became one of the key minions by going really evil and there were a lot of Saudis that didn’t like this. You can say what you want about their beliefs but a lot of people draw the lines with children. This is why Alwaleed needed to be taken down first.

"There are articles everywhere in the Mainstream media, CBS news, do your own research, after Trump left Saudi Arabia in July 2017. He was arrested, taken down, and in his place was Mohammed bin Salman (Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia) who was not okay with what Alwaleed was doing.

"Alwaleed hand-picked Obama as somebody they could work with, exalt into power, and he’s the guy that funded Obama and that’s why Obama has this real kind of Muslim background, because Alwaleed of Saudi Arabia was the one who decided they’d make Obama this lynchpin of US Presidents.

"If you’re not aware of this as a kid, Obama was passed around as a sex toy in these big gatherings of powerful men. He was sodomized so it explains a lot about B. Obama but it doesn’t excuse him for anything, just suffice to know he had a rough upbringing, so he was ripe for the picking and Alwaleed funded him. Alwaleed got Saudi Arabia heavily invested in adrenochrome and child sex trafficking and the set up and the murder of all of these children for adrenochrome.

"So when Trump arrived in the Summer of 2017, he laid out all the documents. That’s what they did to everyone. They had huge folders and the folders had all the documents, photographs, disks, CDs and DVDs and the CDs and DVDs had fantastic production value and it had all of their footage doing the most horrific things.

"The NSA has it all on all of these people. The BIG things that scared them the most were these DVD compilations of their greatest hits of evil/horrific acts. So Trump was there the first day and handed all this stuff out. The 2nd day both the Crown Prince and the King both submitted publicly control over Saudi Arabia to Donald J. Trump.

"We know this, because they publicly held the Sword Dance ritual, which is a very big deal in the Muslim culture, only the King holds the sword, but we have the images here, and who’s holding the sword? Who is at the very center at the top of the podium, who everyone else is in support of? Donald J. Trump is holding the sword. He is at the center of the state. This is Saudi Arabia publicly capitulating and in one of the photos we have it shows the Saudi King looking like he’s about to die, he’s in so much pain at what’s going on here.

"They just handed over the keys to Saudi Arabia to Donald J. Trump in the Summer of 2017. That was Step #1.

"After the declassification of the documents by the NSA… this was Step #1. Saudi Arabia was the big player, so they had to get on site. What is important to know is where Trump went next, he went with Saudi Arabia as part of his Team. Trump didn’t just go there and take them down, they’re now working for him, earning credits towards their own safe salvation and their own not being as harshly punished as they could have been. We’ll see how that all plays out.

"Saudi Arabia is part of the Q-Team now and the new Crown Prince that replaced Alwaleed was bin Salman and he really stepped up and became a key player and did a lot of things to help Donald Trump.

"Step #2 Trump went immediately to Israel. Remember how angry everyone got at those pictures of Donald J. Trump at the wailing wall confirming all of our worst fears that he was a Zionist tool? Let me burst your bubbles here a little bit. This whole thing of Israel being the lynchpin, none of its even real, It’s all fakery, subterfuge, there’s no such thing as a genetic Jew. There’s Hungarians, Poles, Germans and Czechs, Jews are just like us, there’s no genetic race called the Jew. Israel is the ultimate Trojan Horse designed to take you down a rabbit hole and there’s no getting out of this rabbit hole because none of this really exists. Just like they’re playing the black card now [BLM] they love to play the Jew card.

"So they invented all of this with the Jews and then bad Jews, the Zions. I feel so terrible for all the people who were dragged into this, beautiful people. Remember folk, there’s just the Venetians, just those 13-families. They created this ultimate Trojan Horse.

"Trump went to Israel and he sat down with everybody in front of the camera and behind the camera with people who are really in power and he laid it all out on these minions. I'm talking to you, he said, not who you try to present yourself to be. I’m talking to YOU, minion, Netanyahu and everybody else, who is a child eater. This is for you and you have a choice to make here. They were balking at Trump, even though the Saudi’s had signed over. The Israeli’s were balking at Trump and were not prepared to sign over and that’s why Trump stayed an extra day. Trump was not going to leave Israel until they capitulated to him.

"The 'how do you know moment' is after visiting the wailing wall Israel publicly submitted by allowing the US to move their embassy to Jerusalem with our US Military protection. This is a symbolic act to show who has the power even in the Holy Land with the Jews and the Zionists. It was only done for one reason, to show those who had eyes to see it that Trump had now taken down Israel. So Step #2 was completed. Saudi Arabia and Israel are on board as part of the Q Team.

"Then Trump went to the Vatican and presented to Pope Francis a massive folder and said, 'Take your time, have a look. You may want to put your red shoes.' Trump is saying, I’m not leaving here until you sign some documents for me. It took the Vatican only that night and the next day they capitulated to Donald Trump.

And there’s a very famous photo in that Summer of 2017 of POTUS in Vatican City, next to Francis where Francis looks like he’s been run over by about 60 semi-trucks and Trump has a look on his face that is a mixture of victory, joy and mischievousness, like he knows he’s committed a big act here, a massive grin on his face.

"Now what did the Vatican have to do to sign off? The Fed is controlled by a certain group within the Catholic Church who went forth and spread the teachings of Christianity they twisted. They're the Jesuits, the real MAFIA, not holy men.

"Every little group of Mafia in every single town across this vast Earth, every little MAFIA pays homage to this particular group in the Catholic Church. They are in charge. They are the true Mafia and they were in control of the Fed. The MAFIA acronym stands for 'Morte Alla Francia Italia Anelia' or ‘Death To The French Is Italy’s Cry.’

"So Trump did not leave until Pope Francis issued a Papal Bull (a public decree, charter issued by a pope) announcing that by a certain date that the Vatican Bank, which was in charge of, the exchequer of all of the Earth-wide Federal Reserve banking systems in each country, will be handed over to one Donald J. Trump. Donald J. Trump is not marked just the executor, the exchequer of the US Treasury and therefore the Fed within the US.

TRUMP IS THE EXCHEQUER FOR EARTH

"He is the exchequer for the Treasuries for every single country on Earth. No human being in history has ever been more powerful, owned more things, or richer than Donald J. Trump.

"Where does this leaves the Rothschilds? At this meeting that cut the legs off at the knees of the Rothschilds in London. London was the financial arm of the cabal, Washington DC was the Military, Rome was the Central Brain, they call it Spirit, but it’s not, it was the Central Brain of this unholy trinity of power and what they did by doing this? Trump’s thinking is like the CIA and the Rothschilds and the Financial City of London is too evil, too far gone, don’t even want to work with them and he’s not, he circumvented them.

"Like the crucifixion in human physiology you can’t get through atlas, the 33rd vertebrae, so you have to go up and around. Trump went up and around the Rothschilds who are really a nasty evil piece of work.

"The atlas is the first cervical vertebra, commonly called C1. It is an atypical cervical vertebra with unique features. It articulates with the dens of the axis and the occiput, respectively allowing rotation of the head, and flexion, extension and lateral flexion of the head.

"The City of London, in the Summer of 2017, and I'm talking about the real City of London owned by, ultimately, the Venetians, but run by the Rothschilds, had their legs cut off at the knees and they have not been a real player ever since. All of their power was cut off. They have been forced to do some really humbling things over the last 18 months in particular by POTUS. So the Rothschilds are still looking for their legs from the knees down. That was Step #3. The 3 main arms of this evil unholy pyramid have now been controlled, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the Vatican, his first 3 stops.

"When Trump left Rome he flew directly to Brussels and you all know the 2 big players that are in Brussels the European Parliamentary for the EU and NATO. Trump called a meeting. They were all there, the political heads along with their finance ministers and then all of the behind-the-scenes individual players were all there for this meeting and Trump very famously came late, he made them sweat this out, they didn’t know what to think and what was coming, so Trump makes them wait. He walks in late and throws this big folder on the table and said, 'We have it all.' What’s your answer? He played incredible hardball with the EU and NATO and in short order those little cowards all capitulated in very short order.

"There was a whole bunch of things that occurred in the following days from there including the EU backing down on BREXIT and NATO having to step up and basically pay for the bulk and all of these different Nations instead of the US having to fund all of them. It’s not like that’s a big deal in terms of saving money or anything, it’s symbolic.

Donald Trump said to Them, 'YOU’RE GOING TO PAY FOR NATO FROM NOW ON, WE’RE NOT, BECAUSE I’M IN CHARGE and you do what I tell you to do.' When the photo op came for this famous meeting in Brussels, Trump again came late. All the film crews are there and all these heads of the EU and NATO are there all under bright lights in their fancy suits and they’re all sweating like crazy. He walks in late, acknowledging none of them and he’s whistling when he comes in and he just showed everyone who was there that he was in charge of the meeting, He disseminated the information to the press and then he left. He owns the EU and NATO and that’s why they’ve done everything they’ve done ever since.

"In October of 2017 there was an attempt on the life of the new Saudi Crown Prince, bin Salman, who replaced Alwaleed as he was helping Trump in this little operation that was set for him in Las Vegas (Hotel Mandalay Bay) was taken down at the last second and he was protected. There’s conflicting reports whether Alwaleed is still in custody or if he’s been exterminated now for this indiscretion from behind-the-scenes.

"What happened at this Las Vegas battle when bin Salman was saved by the US Military through the INTEL received by the NSA and then given to bin Salman by Trump is that he was asked to take on an even bigger role and he agreed to do it. He basically said to Trump, 'Anything my brother.'

"So what happened next is that staying in the US on Trump’s behalf, bin Salman went to all of the major corporations, in particular the Media Companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, all these main companies were all targeted by bin Salman on Trump’s behalf and he visited all of them. This is all verifiable. I’ve got all the documentation, all of the imagery showing all of these meetings taking place in late October, early November of 2017.

"This is bin Salman essentially helping Trump to do all of this work for him. He visited all of these puppet heads for all of these puppet companies and he basically read them the riot act, showed them the documentation that the NSA had on all of them, and basically said, 'You play for Team Trump. Trump is now in control of these corporations or DECLAS. All of this information will be declassified one by one and each one of you will be offered up to the masses as a child murderer.' So they all capitulated and there’s the money shots of all of these heads of all of these various companies including Jack Dorsey for Twitter.

"So all this stuff that’s been going on lately of the censorship of Trump by Twitter is all part of the game being played-out for people to get angry and to wake-up to what the heck is the evil that’s going on and to say something about it.

"From there, in late Nov. 2017 Trump took his Asian tour and again it’s the same thing. He went to Japan first and did the same thing and the Japanese capitulated without much fight at all.

"The symbolic gesture was at this Sumo Wrestling Championship Event that was taking place. They had Trump come on stage, and this is only supposed to be the highest figure in the land, to present this enormous trophy to the champion Sumo wrestler. It is the symbolization of Japanese submission to Trump, the NSA and the Q-Plan.

"From there, and Q-Anons did great stuff working this out, all of this stuff with North Korea that started when Trump left Japan and flew directly to South Korea and this first meeting was ostensibly to see if they could talk peace with North Korea. But no, what it was to get all these Asian governments to capitulate their control over to Trump via all the documents / DVDs / CDs they (NSA) had. Remember, one of the biggest arms of procuring children for adrenochrome has always been Asia and Southeast Asia and the Southeast Asian countries have been in cahoots with Hollywood and Washington DC politicians.

"So a lot of these people who NEED children have leaned heavily upon these Southeast Asian governments to procure for them children they demanded from them and they’ve done it for years. So Trump showed up showing all the documentation that they (NSA) had showing that they were all complicit and that these were all capital punishment criminal acts, so they all capitulated.

"And in secret, when Trump had that first meeting, he went to the North Korean border and met with Kim jong un and began the process of peace talks with the North Koreans. Trump in subterfuge, in silence, completed those things on his own and then as a HUGE surprise to the Mainstream Media announced his treaty with Kim and the North Koreans.

"All of this was done because all Trump had to do was to show him the power that he had, and that was now all of these countries and all of these countries are not just stepping down from doing evil, they are also being forced into helping the Q-Plan. All of these countries are now part of this process to help.

"The next stop was China, and this was huge, and I know you have been very pleasantly surprised to see what the Chinese Free Peoples have announced publicly through Steve Bannon the 'New Federal State of China.’ Another story the Mainstream Media forgot to tell us about. China has kicked out the Communists-devil-worshiping-satanists. It’s huge and the Mainstream Media ignored all of it.

"In the Spring, not long after Trump had become President, President Xi Jinping visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, Trump’s big resort house in Florida. Trump hasn’t been president for that long and people were absolutely shocked. Mainstream Media didn’t do much of a job reporting on this. He came all the way from China and met Trump at Trump’s leisure at Mar-a-Lago. That’s huge!

"So after Trump cleaned  all the houses in Southeast Asia he then went to China and He meets Xi in the Forbidden City. This is HUGE! It’s called the Forbidden City for a reason because it’s a very private, Spiritual, secretive place to Chinese heritage and culture,

"And that’s where they met and that was at Trump’s request with every one of these things there’s always a marker showing how each of these Nations has capitulated powerfully to Trump as their overlord. Meeting with Trump in the Forbidden City is probably the biggest one! You can’t imagine how big this was. And of course the Mainstream Media was silent about all that.

"And at that meeting, apparently, the Americans were very surprised to find out how desperately these Chinese officials wanted these evil Communists within their midst to be kicked out. They wanted to get away from all of this evil.

"Remember, some of the worst possible things have taken place in China and it is horrifying to people who have a conscience. Not everyone is an evil person.

"So they met Trump with open arms and capitulated to Trump’s authority willingly because they wanted this end to the cabal-rule over them through the subterfuge of a Communist State.

"I know it’s felt that the general public is not ready to handle this explosive information yet, and yet I'm able to reveal all this stuff on the podcast today, maybe tens of thousands of people will hear this. Very limited far from the Mainstream general populous getting to hear about this. I was the first one to say that no, EVERYTHING IS A LIE. And I mean EVERY-THING IS A LIE. And then going into the Religious aspect of things that Jesus is this figure of this Swiss looking dude by the name of Jesus Christ isn’t real. He’s got some good stuff, granted, and he and Colleen and good people for what they do, working so hard with all of the Animals.

"So there’s a reason why we have 4,000 subscribers and not 40,000 or 400,000 when all we teach is the Holistic Truth so we’re kind of insulated by TELLING THE TRUTH.

"We’re very safe to have this knowledge to come out no matter what happens moving forward our services are going to be desperately needed and some of these others, not so much. It’ll all come out in the end, I promise you.

"So after China Trump went to Vietnam in Nov. 2017 and at this very public ceremony Trump was placed slightly ahead and to the right of the Vietnam President and showed himself to be in charge so what the Vietnamese promised was to stop their participation in procuring children, human sex trafficking.

"They capitulated quickly. Most of these did not put up a fight, folks. Israel put up the biggest fight.

"Now this is a big one for me, you talk about going into the Lion’s den, the big one after Vietnam and the end of the Asian tour for Trump. In Jan. 2018, Trump attended a very famous meeting because of everyone who was purported to be there at Davos, Switzerland.

"This was quite a big deal. Soros was there as well at this meeting. You’re talking about the biggest international corporations in the world, these are the key players, the most evil met at Davos, Switzerland, it was called by Trump. That’s not what they said publicly, of course. Trump came in late again, sat at the very middle of the table, and basically everyone was wrapped around Trump because he was the boss of this meeting.

"Trump laid out documents and folders. He started with envelopes, very similar to what occurred at the George H.W. Bush funeral when he first arrived and you had a lot of very worried people for the meeting the next day because of what was said in these envelopes the day before.

"And then the next day at this meeting he provided a whole bunch more information about each one of these evil ___ and the meeting went very quickly. This is a very scary place to go to Davos, Switzerland with the caves and tunnels underneath those mountains and they could have abducted him and said that this was some kind of kidnapping and they don’t know where he is. This is BIG!I’m sure he didn’t go there alone. This was Trump at his most vulnerable was this Jan. 2018 meeting in the Lion’s Den at Davos, Switzerland. Must have had crazy security for that trip.

"And like scared little rodents they capitulated quite quickly. Trump played it quite well with those envelopes the first night and then made them sweat it overnight and then the folders the next day and they capitulated and Trump did not leave without them.

"And remember, this is not just saying to Nestle that you’re not going to poison the water anymore, but you’re also working for us. And, 'What we ask you to do, you do and if you don’t we go public one by one, we don’t make this look like one big conspiracy, you’re a lone nut, a sick child abuser and we’re going to pick on you individually. We're going to single you out and eat you alive,' That’s what Trump said to each of them.

"So they all capitulated at this meeting and this is a huge one because these are the biggest companies. HSBC was there, this is evil, the faces of evil were at this meeting and George Soros was at this meeting.

"There has been a notable absence of ISIS terror attacks. I don’t think we’ve heard from ISIS for a good couple of years or more. Let’s do the John McCain map here. When John McCain was alive, when was John McCain spending a lot of time in the Middle East and when did John McCain get taken out with dishonorable discharge and dishonorable funeral? He was dishonorably discharged from the Military before he was shot in the back of the head. Then ISIS seemed to go away. John McCain had to nurse those idiots into doing the things they did. ISIS was his charge and that’s why you have so many shots of McCain in the Middle East hanging out with all of ISIS evil heads.

"Then Trump went to India. He took India and made India work for him.

"Then the Central Americas, starting with Mexico, Amlo (Andres Manual Lopez Obrador, President of Mexico since Dec. 2018) he was quite resistant. He didn’t want to give up eating children or give up his power to Trump, but he did.

"From Mexico City he went to all of the Central American countries, they all signed over and in all of these meetings, all of these various leaders, AMLO included, all were clasping their hands together, their wrists together like they were being bound.

"We get to Brazil and the new Brazilian Pres. of Brazil thinks he’s got the best job in the world because he’s far away from the bright lights of the Mainstream news and he can just rape and go to the bank in Brazil. Trump pays him a visit and tells him he’s working for Trump and so they have this public meeting where once again, Pres. Bolsonaro submits to Trump as well.

"And then after Trump leaves, one of the first acts that Bolsonaro did as the Pres., and this is very key, all of these key arrests after Trump leaves these countries of key pedophilia cover companies and individuals and Bolsonaro arrests Oprah’s best friend, that beautiful man of God Faria, who is running one of the largest child trafficking and adrenochrome production facilities in the world, an absolute monster, Oprah’s best pal, He was arrested shortly after Trump left Brazil.

"Then he went to Argentina, which has long been a safe haven because it’s as far as people can get away. Obama was planning his safe escape, his retreat there, if certain things should come out. He spent a lot of time in Argentina as did a lot of people.

And the Argentinian Pres., who is such a corrupt person, Mauricio Macri (2015-2019). He’s just brutal. Trump was so disrespectful to this guy. They had the G7 in Argentina so they had the global banksters there. Trump’s behavior to this Argentine was just brutal, treating him like the scum of the Earth that he is. Of course he capitulated.

"The press always presents this as Trump not observing protocol. This big thing with this Argentinian Pres. is that Trump just up and walked off the stage. Trump had felt he’d spent long enough on stage, for like 5 minutes, for a photo-op. it’s a power move, basically saying you’re scum of the Earth, we know who you re, just obey what we tell you to do or else.

"And then at the G7 Summit in Canada. He had horrific pedophile and adrenochromer Justin Trudeau was hosting the meeting. He was there. Angela Merkel was there as well and she was one of the big ones Trump wanted to have be there as well because she didn’t play a major role back in Brussels, so at this meeting he got everyone there but in particular, it was the capitulation of Justin Trudeau of Canada and Angela Merkel of Germany. Both of them did the same thing, spent most of the G7 meeting with hands clasped like they were in handcuffs. Trump did a lot of very suggestive gestures to Trudeau as well, kind of pointing out some stuff.

"One of the ones Trump treated the absolute worst was the French Pres. Macron, who is so known for being a Rothschild stooge and a horrible adrenochromer. And the stuff that Trump did with this clown in public, in front of the press and the media to make him look bad was actually incredible, so he got Macron to capitulate also.

"Now, Teresa May in the UK resigned to allow Boris Johnson to take over as a Trump supporter. Remember May crying and crying and she couldn’t control herself? The real reason she was actually crying is not just all the stuff they had on her, but Trump showed her INTEL from the NSA that the Venetians were actually planning on taking her out. She was actually set for an assassination. Trump showed her all the INTEL all the detail on where and when she was going to be hit and how, so he basically saved her life. The objective of taking her out was perhaps to get Boris Johnson in. They must have had somebody else they wanted in. Boris Johnson is a strong character. he does appear to be strongly evil, but if he is playing this role.

"At the speech at the UN. and the first half of that speech,  Boris Johnson showed you that an evil mechanism is in place, the cabal is running things. But then he ended with covid and the vaccine. Remove this fake evil gov't from power. Don’t wait till 2020 to do it. Johnson should be taken down. He’s been a horrific Prime Minister surrounded by horrific people.

"And then of course, his famous trip to Buckingham Palace and there’s a lot of conjecture if that was even the real Queen that was there that day, because she famously has the most body doubles in place, but his behavior was just incredible. He just walked all over her everywhere he went and that Camilla Parker, she really hated it. She was incensed by Trump’s apparent lack of protocol. Trump walked right up to Prince Charles, that’s a good indicator that Charles wasn’t even there. Trump stepped ahead of Charles and started to walk away at a pace that Charles couldn’t keep up. He walked over to Charles’ private guard and began shooting the breeze with him.

"The coup de grâce shot was Trump managed to have a photo-op in Winston Churchill’s leather-bound-chair, looking like the Boss.

"And then from there he went to Norway and met Putin there. At this meeting between the 2 of them, they’re both at the podium. Putin has a soccer ball. It’s symbolic about the adrenochrome molecule that looks like a soccer ball. It’s horrific, horrific, but you couldn’t put it more in plain sight in front of all the press taking their pictures and video. Putin hands over to Donald Trump and he famously says, 'The ball is in your court now, Mr. Pres.' so does everyone get that Putin hands Trump at this public conference. Putin is saying 'We’re on your Team, please don’t have us killed, the ball is in your court and we just want you to know we work for you now.' I’m sure that’ll all come out eventually who in the Political realm is working with Trump.

"Not a bad first 3-1/2 years of work. A pretty good track record. Even away from all the Trump stuff, the adrenochrome stuff sticks out like a sore thumb. The mechanism for eventually communicating all of this to the masses is presumably going to require an emergency takeover of the Broadcast Networks and what’s going to happen is that the only thing that will be available via multiple sources of signals will be the one channel and it will be from GITMO, Guantanamo Bay, the Military Tribunals where all of these people who are left are going to be accused and sentenced.

"That’s the big thing how this all plays out because there’s no real defense. They all tried to make their defense by capitulating. Again, Kevin Spacey, Geoffrey Epstein, the Bush family, when everyone was at the funeral service for GHW Bush when they were all served those letters, they requested meetings with Trump after that.

"Trump arrives at good old Timberwolf’s funeral. He arrived late, interrupted the service. He was in the front row and he interrupted all of these past sitting presidents and the entire service. He made a mockery of this service to the monster known as George HW Buch, code name 'Timberwolf.'

"And they all had an ashen face after they got their envelopes. And let me throw you the punch line. Trump had them and he’s had famous people deliver pizzas in public. Do you see the significance in doing this?

Image: Hillary served, Pence served, Biden served, GW Bush served.

"Why would he have Kevin Spacey deliver pizzas in public? Why would Donald Trump have George W. Bush serve pizza to the Secret Service during the shutdown? And make sure this was a photo-op and have photos taken of it? It’s submission and it’s also symbolism will be their downfall and also what these Secret Service guys had to witness as security for these evil folks.

"There were millions of victims in WW3. It’s just different, these Secret Service agents, all of those Royal guards where Trump famously outpaces Prince Charles. What do you think he’s saying to the Royal guard, 'I love you guys, I can’t imagine what you guys have had to witness, just know that help is coming.'

"So there are a ton of victims, the #1 victims are the kids, when the numbers come forward you’re going to be sick to your stomach. This is WW3. This is the worst war ever. It doesn’t seem that way, but it is. We are saving the children and it’s certainly worth pausing the world to do so.

"He took Nancy Pelosi down very famously, Gavin Newsom, Gov. Jerry Brown. He took them down very publicly. In fact, it’s after those Paradise fires in California… there was a video of Trump with boots on the ground checking out the source of the fires and for 3 straight minutes both Newsom and Jerry brown had their hands wrapped together behind their backs, they were told to have their hands behind their backs for the whole 3-minutes as their walking in the wreckage, the insanity of those Paradise fires.

"Trump forced New York Gov. Cuomo with his nipple piercings in showing under his shirt, and not a single person in the press said anything, and in one shot Cuomo was forced to pull back his jacket and unveil the whole front of his chest. Hey Gov. why are you wearing nipple piercing? The back story to this is the footage that Trump had on Cuomo is there was a ‘party’ where there was child murder, torture going on, and Cuomo was all beaded up in ceremonial paint with these big nipple rings.

"You can see how Trump can be pretty tough here. You’re pretty proud of those nipple rings when you’re killing kids. How about you wear those nipple rings at your next press conference? And he did what he was told.

"If the cabal knows its days are numbered, there’s every chance they might try to roll out every weapon they have in their arsenal at this point you would think. So they pulled the George Floyd, Black Lives Matter stunt out of their toolkit. Have they been so muted by now and rendered so impotent as so many of the ringmasters have been put out of action, so they don’t really have that many tricks up their sleeve. just the Mainstream media and all the propaganda and fear that they can spread through that.

"We do you expect more false flag stunts between now and Nov., but not to the same extent. Soros has been removed. I’m not saying that I know that Soros has been murdered or not, because a Soros trial publicly would be exactly what they want. Just like Oprah, people are calling. 'If they killed Tom Hanks, please kill Oprah.' No they don’t want to do these things. They want people to have their first of 2-judgement days, the only one that really matters and they want one for Soros. Soros has been removed, but I think he’s still alive. They want these key people for these trials.

"The ones that they have killed, they have had to do so. When one child’s life is at risk they made the decision to execute. So the ones they have executed are the ones that posed the greatest threats to children, and that’s why Tom Hanks has been taken out. We were told Rita Wilson as well, I have no idea whether that’s true or not, but she might as well be. Did you see those pictures of Rita Wilson in her last days? Or last photos that exist of her? She was missing her adrenochrome so much.

"There's a picture that Tom Hanks had taken in Australia of some Vegemite spread on some toast, and there appears to be an image carved into the Vegemite on the toast, Again more symbolism. Most people didn’t get the symbolism of the glass of water tilted up on the side of the plate but the water is level. People are saying see it’s a mistake. No, this is Australia and he’s been taken into custody by the US Marines and the Marines are the ones that have been going ship-to-shore all around the world. Marines have been doing all of the International arrests, so he was on a US Naval Ship. I take all of that that he was going to be executed that day. That was his last message. The image was of a hanged man.

"It's a disgusting good-bye, talking about little boys, little kids) and I make no apologies. That’s Tom Hanks being a devil to the absolute end. So if you’re wondering why Hanks was taken out? It’s because they could not guarantee the safety of children with that man alive. So how sick and evil was Tom Hanks?

"And it’s all going to come out, what he was really doing and what he was really behind. Tom Hanks was behind a massive, massive organization. How does that psychologically affect you? It affects me because I liked Tom Hanks as an actor and I used to think he was a fairly decent person. And just knowing that I even liked someone like that, and the thought of the things that he’s done. It just makes me want to take a shower I feel so dirty.

"The takedown of the deep state criminals and all these pedophiles, etc., is something that will be welcomed by anyone in their right mind. Everyone would want that! What lies beyond all this? What will the world look like once this system has been dismantled under Donald Trump? So when he enters his 2nd Term how can we be sure it wouldn’t just be another expression of a kind of New World Order One World Government just under Donald Trump in his vision? And also, what will happen at the end of Trump’s 2nd term? Presumably he’s going to get re-elected in Nov. That will take him to 2024 then by which point he’ll be 78 years of age. What happens then?

"Trump is going to walk away from all of this. He’s not going to continue on with this much longer. This has taken an incredible toll on him. He’s done it at his age because Trump is a very remarkable Soul. He has a strong will of life. There's a lot of things about Donald Trump that people don’t know. His maturity and wisdom, about the Spiritual side of Donald Trump as well.

"If you really understood your numerology and symbology you’d absolutely know, and so the biggest reason we know and are absolutely sure about so many things is for all the numerology and symbology that has always been used by the Q-team, by Q, by John F. Kennedy Jr., by Donald J. Trump. There’s never been a mistake in a situation where they used the wrong symbology. It’s always beautiful.

"Trump and the Q movement are trying to really create leaders. We are to all become leaders. And that’s why they will give it back to the people but before that, we need to find out who we really Are. And what’s really been going on. And that’s what the Great Awakening is and that’s what all this is about and that’s why we’re doing what we do, and why you all do all you’re do. We’re trying to create Leaders, not followers, or creating money for ourselves. It’s about creating a mindset for people to go and discover their own truth. There’s a truth out there we need to discover. It’s been hidden from us. When we realize all of that we will be the people that we need to be.

"We can then run our own Shambhala Communities completely free of the techno-matrix and eventually money. We don’t need politicians and so-called authorities. We will not let ourselves get into this predicament again where we give our power away.

"What do we have to prove that Trump is going to do this? I think we’ve laid out a lot of who Trump is and what he’s about and we have to have faith at some point. And we have to grow up. We have to become responsible for our own lives, for our families and our own actions. When that happens we will be the regenerated Ascended Master that can do all of those wonderful things and share in this incredible world that they say, 'We’ve taken the evil, now what am I going to do?'

"And if this does turn out to be just another Social Engineering psyop it would be just about the cruelest psyop ever played on the public psyche. One of false hope. It would be but I know it’s not. And again, that’s not just a hope statement, if you know your symbology, if you know your numerology, you know all of this is relatively real in the Dream. This Awareness is ancient Spiritual Godly, as is the symbology and numerology. It's beautiful and what they use all the time.

"Trump is constantly making references out of the Bible to the highest, most beautiful thing and when Trump talks about Religion or his Spiritual nature or when Q—John F. Kennedy Jr., it’s always God! The ultimate power is God and why would we not go straight to God? The ruse of Religion is they’ve become the intermediaries between you and God. It’s all going to come out.

"Big things have always been the Plan. They’ll continue the resurrection of GEORGE from the pages of GEORGE magazine 'Platform 2020' on GEORGE mag with the Full Moon over Mount Rushmore. Donald Trump has announced he’ll be there. It happens to be on a magazine cover of Feb. 1998 owned by his best friend in the world, John F. Kennedy Jr. who said, 'If my dear friend Donald Trump ever decided to sacrifice his fabulous billionaire lifestyle to become President--he would be an unstoppable force for ultimate justice that Democrats and Republicans alike would celebrate.' ~ John F. Kennedy Jr., GEORGE magazine, June 1999

"When you hear these stories from behind the scenes that Donald Trump is doing this to aid in the completion of his favorite President, which is JFK, to help the dream of the President’s son, JFK Jr. who went to such an extent that he faked his own death and went underground for 21-years to put together the master Plan that will take down this fake techno-matrix world. 'I will expose my father’s killers no matter who they are, even if I have to bring down the whole government.' ~ John F. Kennedy, Jr.

"And then he disappeared and there’s a beauty to this and people who don’t get this have anger in their lives. The people that get this have Love in their hearts. Those that are not getting this and are worried that suddenly this Angelic Creation in Donald Trump who’s doing this like he needs this like he needs a hole in his head is somehow evil? These people lack Love and balance inside.

"That’s why we teach meditation, Qi Gong, Tai Chi, diet—all of these things are going to be so important as we move forward in the year 2021. HEALING is what is going to happen.

"Society is going to be very slow to get back to work and pretty soon it’s going to be the election, after that election, after the Winter Solstice when the Sun is the lowest that it can possibly be there’s going to be a time for Soul reflection and that’s when these tribunals are going to start and that’s when all of this is going to come out in 2021. Then all of us will be needed to help everyone fully Awaken and lead the way of all exiting the cities of the dying techno-matrix system into the Shambhala Communities that will eventually replace all cities worldwide.

"I know these things and I know that Donald Trump is aiding John F. Kennedy Jr. in avenging his father’s death and completing the Plan. It was his Father and his Uncle’s Plan of giving back Liberty to those that have the strength to grasp it and freeing Humanity completely from the techno-matrix.

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Weekend Reading, 4.28.19

Those of you who’ve been reading for a while might remember that 2017 was the year of bread baking around here.

It all started when my friend Ali published her (wonderful) cookbook, Bread Toast Crumbs. I’d wanted to get serious about homemade bread baking for a long time, but everything I’d read until that point made my eyes glaze over: it was all so technical and intimidating. Ali’s peasant bread technique—which involves no kneading and almost no dirtying of hands at all, in addition to the heartwarming fact that the loaves get baked in buttered Pyrex bowls—gave me the courage I needed.

Months later, Emilie gifted me with sourdough starter and a copy of her cookbook. Baking my first loaf of homemade sourdough was a small victory: I couldn’t believe it had actually worked, which I guess is the magic of natural leavening.

Bread baking found me at the right moment. I was having a hard time in March and April of that year: a longterm relationship had just ended, in a way that I wasn’t ready for and didn’t yet understand. For the first time in my life, I felt completely ill-suited to being on my own. I moved through my space and my days in a haze of confusion and grief, feeling scared and alone and more than a little sorry for myself.

If that period of time taught me anything, it was the gift of small things. None of the big stuff—love, graduate school, sense of direction or purpose—seemed to be working out. Even work, which is typically a major source of meaning for me, felt rote and joyless. My post-bacc years and the ones that followed hadn’t been easy, but they’d been animated with an incredible sense of yearning and direction. Suddenly, I had neither.

What I did have were my daily routines, which I fought to maintain even when things like cooking and chores felt insurmountable. I knew from past experiences with depression that keeping up with small habits, even if they felt suddenly like a lot of work, was the least I could do. And I did, day after day, until they started not to feel so tough anymore.

For a while it was all pretty muted, but as the months went by, I was reminded of my own capacity to be gratified by simple pleasures: good food, a clean home, a walk to the park, an hour of reading. I didn’t have a plan, but I did have the next meal and the next task, and at that moment, those things were enough.

And there was bread. It’s always been my comfort food, and I’d have eaten plenty of it that spring even if I weren’t baking it from scratch (for a while there, toast and cake were the only two things I wanted to eat). But I was baking from scratch, week after week, and it was wonderful. Unlike some other DIY food projects I’ve tried—kombucha, yogurt, seitan—this felt like the right ratio of effort and reward. The bread was so much better than anything I could buy, and I actually liked the process: mixing, shaping, scoring. The smell of a loaf in the oven on Saturday morning became something I looked forward to all week long. I wouldn’t quite say that bread baking got me through the year, but I can’t imagine that spring and summer without it.

I kept up with homemade bread for a while. But sometime last spring, in the race to the grad school finish line, the habit fell away. Once my internship started, it felt silly and imprudent to bake when I needed grains, beans, and fully cooked meals as weekly mainstays. During my acute care rotation, when getting the laundry done was a challenge, feeding my starter was the last thing on my mind.

My GI rotation gives me two weekdays off, which has been a gift in so many ways: it allows me to ease up on my batch cooking, to get work done during the week, and to have a true weekend. Most of all, having a little extra time on my hands gave me a kick in the pants to bake bread again. Now that I’m in the swing of it—one or two loaves weekly for the last four weeks—I’m rolling my eyes at the fact that I didn’t make time for it sooner. It’s a time commitment, sure, like anything/everything else. And it’s time perfectly spent.

I cook because it’s fun, healthful and economical. But cooking and feeding myself will always be a symbolic act as well as a practical one: it’s my way of asserting the desire to be alive, nourished, and whole. Bread making speaks to this desire more than almost any other type of cooking that I do. The fact that the process demands patience and time is only more evidence that, no matter what’s going on, I want to eat well and be well. I’m so glad to have been reminded of this in the past month.

Wishing you a week of good food and good self-care. Here are some recipes and reads.

Recipes

Speaking of Ali, I’m loving her latest, Indian-inspired fried rice recipe.

Yet more motivation to branch out with my air fryer. This time, a vegan sheet pan supper with lemony tempeh from Susan at FFVK.

I love the looks of this sun-dried tomato pesto (and the yummy pappardelle that accompanies it).

A pretty phenomenal looking vegan kidney bean burger.

I’ve never made cookie dough in a blender, but consider me inspired by these chocolate cookies.

Reads

1. I believed that too much water at mealtimes could “dilute” stomach acid for years! Evidence says otherwise, and this article—in which my current preceptor, Tamara Duker Freuman, is interviewed—explains. (For the record, when I was working in a GI practice in DC, I did learn that chugging water at mealtimes can encourage the swallowing of air, which can be bloating, so steady sips are still a wise idea if you’ve got a sensitive digestive tract.)

2. More support for the value of eating breakfast.

3. Popular Science busts some sleep myths (sobering stuff for those of us who often do without enough of it, and tell ourselves it’s NBD).

4. Yikes! Bad news for allergy sufferers like me (yes, it’s getting worse, and climate change is in part to blame).

5. Finally, I wanted to link to this post from my friend Maria. It’s a lovely meditation on meeting oneself and one’s feelings—including the despondent ones—with acceptance and faith in the promise of release and transformation.

On that note, enjoy the remainder of this Sunday. And happy Orthodox Easter to those of you who celebrate today—maybe a bowl of vegan avgolemono is in order.

xo

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Health Care Needs Its Rosa Parks Moment

BY SHANNON BROWNLEE

On Wednesday, October 25, 2017 I was at the inaugural Society for Participatory Medicine conference. It was a fantastic day and the ending keynote was the superb Shannon Brownlee. It was great to catch up with her and I’m grateful that she agreed to let THCB publish her speech. Settle back with a cup of coffee (or as it’s Thanksgiving, perhaps something stronger), and enjoy–Matthew Holt

George Burns once said, the secret to a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending—and to have the two as close together as possible. I think the same is true of final keynotes after a fantastic conference. So I will do my best to begin and end well, and keep the middle to a minimum.

I have two main goals today. First, I want to praise the work you are doing, and set it into a wider context of the radical transformation of health care that has to happen if we want to achieve a system that is accountable to patients and communities, affordable, effective — and universal: everybody in, nobody out.

My second goal is to recruit you. I’m the co-founder of the Right Care Alliance, which is a grassroots movement of patients, doctors, nurses, community organizers dedicated to bringing about a better health system.  We have 11 councils and chapters formed or forming in half a dozen cities. I would like nothing more than at the end of this talk, for every one of you to go to www.rightcarealliance.org and sign up.

But first, I want to tell you a bit about why I’m here and what radicalized me. My father, Mick Brownlee, died three years ago this Thanksgiving, and through his various ailments over the course of the previous 30 years, I’ve seen the best of medicine, and the worst.

My father was a sculptor and a scholar, but he was also a stoic, so when he began suffering debilitating headaches in his early 50s, he ignored them, until my stepmother saw him stagger and fall against a wall in the kitchen, clutching his head. She took him to the local emergency room, at a small community hospital in eastern Oregon. This was the 1970s, and the hospital had just bought a new fangled machine—a CT scanner, which showed a mass just behind his left ear. It would turn out to be a very slow growing cancer, a meningioma, that was successfully removed, thanks to the wonders of CT and brain surgery. What a miracle!

Fast forward 15 years, and Mick was prescribed a statin drug for his slightly elevated cholesterol. One day, he was fine. The next he wasn’t, not because his cholesterol had changed, but the cutoff point for statin recommendations had been lowered. Not long after Mick began taking the statin, he began feeling tired and suffering mild chest pain, which was written of as angina. What we didn’t know at the time was the statin was causing his body to destroy his muscles, a side effect called rhabdomyolysis. Even his doctor didn’t recognize his symptoms, because back then, the drug companies hid how often patients suffered this side effect.

The statin caught up with Mick at an exhibit in Seattle of Chinese bronzes, ancient bells and other sculptures that my father had been studying in art books his whole career. Halfway through the exhibit, he told my brother to take him home; he was too tired to take another step.

Three days later, he was in the hospital on dialysis. The rhabdomyolysis had finally begun to destroy his kidneys. Three weeks later, he was sent home alive with one kidney barely functional. Soon his health would begin to deteriorate at a steady pace.

Fast forward another 15 years, and my father, at 84, was frail, falling down repeatedly, intermittently incontinent, and mildly demented. He had been hospitalized several times over the previous decade for a kidney stone, intractable constipation, dizziness, a small stroke. He was sleeping much of the day and was, as he would tell anybody who would listen, ready to die. He would walk into the ocean, if only he could get to the beach. By then, my stepmother had hidden the gun.

Just before Thanksgiving, Mick was taken by my brother to the local hospital with severe abdominal pain, which turned out to be a volvulus, a twist in the gut that if left untreated can lead to sepsis and a painful death. He was whisked off the hospital in Portland, a two-hour ambulance ride away. Knowing how frail Mick was, and how done he was with being hospitalized much less alive, I told my brother to ask the hospitalist for a palliative care consult. My brother did as instructed. The hospitalist said no, he wasn’t going to call in palliative care, because, and I quote, “We’re not there yet.” In that hospitalist’s mind, palliative care was for those at death’s door, and my father was only in the waiting room.  You won’t be surprised to learn that nobody asked Mick what he wanted, or what course of care he preferred.

By the time I could leave work and get a flight from DC to Portland, six days later, my father’s various doctors had managed to give him a pre-op cardiac stress test, and put him on total parenteral nutrition, a sort of food that goes straight into the blood stream. Only then did the gastrointestinal surgeon see him and pronounce him unfit for surgery; Mick was obviously so frail he would likely die on the table or if he survived the surgery, he would spend the rest of his short life in a nursing home.

Finally, we got our palliative care consult, which allowed us to take Mick home, where he was able to die surrounded by his beloved collection of art and his family.

***

I suspect that each of you has experienced some aspect of my tale. We all have stories of being misdiagnosed, ignored, not listened to, and maybe most important of all, not being heard. Of having to fight to get the comfort your child, father, sister needed. We’ve all had to seek out the right care, and be vigilant to avoid the wrong care, too little or too much care. Which probably should not even be called care at all, since if it’s unnecessary, it’s not very caring.

Anatole Broyard, an editor at the New York Times, wrote about the patient’s plight in a brilliant essay he published in August, 1990, 3 months before he died of prostate cancer. He wrote, “To most physicians, my illness is a routine incident in their rounds. For me it’s the crisis of my life. . . I would feel better if I had a doctor who, at least, perceived this incongruity.”Later in the essay he says, “I just wish my doctor would brood on my situation for even five minutes, that he would give me his whole mind just once. I’d like my doctor to scan me, to grope for my spirit as well as my prostate. “

What Broyard so eloquently expressed can be summed up as a crisis of relationship—a fracturing of the therapeutic alliance that we know is essential to offering comfort to patients, but is also part of healing. We all know implicitly, that healing involves far more than the physician’s knowledge and skill. It is more than making a correct diagnosis and delivering the right treatment.

True healing, as journalist David Bornstein writes, “is the process by which a doctor helps a patient accept, recover from, adapt to, or endure a serious illness, and it is full of nuance and mystery.  .  . I was often moved by how much my father-in-law — an actor who died from a form of leukemia — drew comfort and even inspiration from the relationship he had with his hematologist (who requested a Shakespeare recitation at each visit).”

Or as my colleague Vikas Saini says, hope and healing come from the companionship between doctor and patient in facing an unknown future together. The therapeutic alliance is a two way street, whose destruction also harms those who sit on the other side of the stethoscope — you in the white coats, you have stories, too.

Of being burned out, and chewed up by the system. Nearly half of medical students report feelings of depression, burn out, cynicism. Medical education has been characterized as being akin to living in an abusive and neglectful family. It places unrealistic expectations on students, keeps them sleep-deprived, overstressed, hypercompetitive, and in a state of fear of making mistakes. It sends a message that doubts or grief should be kept to oneself.

Worse yet, young clinicians perceive the gap between what is formally espoused — the proclaimed ethic of medicine’s empathy, compassion and altruism — and what they are actually learning through the “hidden curriculum.” This hidden curriculum is the socialization process that increasingly teaches them detachment rather than connection. The hidden curriculum says money is what matters in the system. The hidden curriculum instructs young clinicians to see patients as “customers,” and to view the doctors with the biggest incomes as the happiest and most admirable.  It is even teaching residents to do rounds at the hospital by standing in the hallway looking at their laptops rather than gathering at the patient’s bedside.

What the explicit and hidden curricula are not doing is teaching young nurses and doctors to listen without interrupting much less share decisions. Young clinicians are not even learning the ancient and powerful art of taking a history and physical. The novelist and physician Abraham Verghese is doing a booming business at Stanford medical school running remedial courses for young doctors who are coming to their residencies without those essential skills.

So how can we expect such an education system teach clinicians to “perceive the incongruity” of what it means to be sick versus well? Or to take five minutes to “brood” on their patients’ situation?

It should come as no surprise that five out of six doctors say that medicine is in decline. Close to 60 percent would not recommend it as a career for their children.

And as the work speeds up, and clinicians are treated more like assembly line workers than healing professionals, there is less and less time to grope for the spirit of a patient, to serve as a companion in the face of an uncertain future. There’s no time for such niceties when “productivity” is measured as throughput of patients, and when burnout has reached fever pitch.

What all of this means is the topics of today’s meeting strike at the emotional and spiritual heart of what it means to be a doctor, or nurse, or physicians assistant. This gathering also speaks to the deep need of a patient or family member to be heard, and to be cared for as fellow human being who is suffering.

And what you are all doing today, those of you who have spoken before me or are sitting in the audience, Randi Oster, Geri Baumblatt, Tom Delbanco, Harlan Kumholz, and all of the researchers and physicians and patients who have been laboring in these fields for so many years — every single one of you deserves a medal for making these deep and important issues rise to the surface. For giving a voice to patients — and likewise to the clinicians who care about them as well as for them.

***

And yet . . . here we are today, struggling to make those voices be heard by our colleagues, by our regulators, and our politicians.

Why has it been so hard to get Tom Delbanco’s Open Notes implemented? Why doesn’t every medical and nursing school in the country teach real history taking? How is it that shared decision making has been an idea whose time has been coming—for more than 20 years? Why doesn’t every medical and nursing school in the country teach shared decision-making?  Hundreds of studies, thousands of decision aids later, and we know that shared decision-making is a vast improvement over the misinformed consent that so often occurs. Why are these ideas still lurking at the fringes of medicine?

Why do so few hospitals have family advisory councils, and even fewer have councils with real power? Dig even deeper, and we should also be asking why so few communities have any real say in how hospitals allocate resources.

Where I live, in Washington, DC, three hospitals already have a proton beam machine. A fourth is being built. Each one of these machines costs $100 million— and each one is unnecessary. They get built not because they will benefit the DC community, but because they are good for the hospital’s bottom line. And if shared decision-making were actually practiced, and adult patients were actually informed of the fact that there’s no valid evidence to suggest that their cancer will be helped by using this incredibly expensive machine compared with standard therapy, there would be no reason to build another one.

The building of more proton beam machines holds a good part of the answer to why shared decision-making, and family advisory councils, and Open Notes, are not standard practice in every hospital and clinic in the country. And that answer points to the two reasons there are no community advisory councils to prevent every hospital in the country from wasting $100 million on a useless machine.

Those reasons are money and power.

As individual patients, we don’t have much power. It is incredibly hard to advocate for ourselves. Even doctors who become patients find themselves feeling nearly powerless in the face of their fellow white coats.

This idea that the patient/consumer is going to change the system, one transaction at a time, has become part of our national religion of the free market, and the neoliberal catechism we’ve all been absorbing for the last 40 years. That doctrine says that patients can fix the system — if only they would behave the way they do when purchasing other goods. High deductibles will make sick people and their frightened families more “prudent consumers” of health care, and when all those prudent consumers begin to vote with their wallets, the system will be transformed.

Right. How’s that been working out so far?

Here’s an alternative. There’s only so much we can do as individuals, especially when we are sick enough to be under a doctor’s care. Maybe it’s time to think about a different “theory of change.” Maybe it’s time to stop pretending the “market” will fix health care, and start recognizing that we have to pursue a different path. We need collective action.

***

This December, it will have been 62 years since a seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus. Her refusal and subsequent arrest is just one of many iconic acts of defiance that have come to symbolize the civil rights movement. That movement is ongoing and its business is unfinished, as recent events in Ferguson, Staten Island, and around the country are making clear. But think back to the 1950s and 60s. What an extraordinary distance we’ve come because of collective action by the civil rights movement.

It’s tempting to imagine that all of what has happened since that December day in Montgomery was triggered by a seamstress who was tired and fed up and decided on the spur of the moment to sit in the front of the bus. But that’s not really what happened.

Rosa Parks’ pivotal act of defiance was carefully planned, and it was preceded by years of grassroots organizing that came before. In the first half of the twentieth century, African Americans and their allies mostly fought discrimination through litigation and lobbying, and they set important legal precedents. Yet victories in the courts and legislatures were not enough to change a deeply entrenched culture, and the dream of civil rights only began to make real headway when the activists shifted tactics to real movement building and organizing.

And that organizing began not with a pivotal moment on a bus, but in the black churches. It began when people talked about the lived experience of racism. It was in those churches that people began forming the bonds that made them brave enough to register to vote in the face of police intimidation. Those relationships gave them the courage to face down dogs, and water cannons, and imprisonment for their cause.

It was grassroots organizing that created the bus boycott that followed Rosa Parks’ arrest, and organizing that brought white students from the North to register black voters, and to join marches.  It was the endless press releases sent by organizers that made those marchers impossible for the world and the White House and the U.S. Congress to ignore. If the civil rights movement had stayed in the churches and not moved to the next phase, of organizing and mobilizing, just imagine what our world would be like today.

Make no mistake, what we are doing at this meeting serves the same purpose as the years of discussion that happened in the black churches before the movement truly began.  But now it is time to consider the next step for our cause, which is real organizing and mobilizing.

Getting shared decision making standard of care, fostering a true therapeutic relationship, giving patients control over their own records and communities control over their hospitals are not technical problems, with technical solutions. They are natural outgrowths from a health care system that has become another business, and a powerful one—one that does not want to change.

In other words, this is a fight about money and power, and in the history of the world, very few people and virtually no institutions have given up either willingly just because it’s the right thing to do. Maybe George Washington really did refuse to become King of America because he believed so fervently in the experiment of democracy. But he is the exception that proves the rule. To change the flow of money and power, we the people must take them.

We need a real movement. A movement that is willing to break glass, step on toes, and picket hospitals to force the deep change that is necessary. Health care needs a Rosa Parks moment.

So here comes my pitch to join the Right Care Alliance. We are just beginning to build our ranks of providers, patients, lawyers and community activists.  Our steering committee has started to lay out our strategy for the coming years.

But I have to be honest: We are hardly the only grassroots healthcare movement out there. You can join the National Physicians Alliance, or one of the single payer organizations that exist in every state. It almost doesn’t matter which group you get involved with, because we are eventually going to have to come together to pool our efforts. And our first step will need to involve going into communities and helping Americans understand how bad our health care system really is and what it will take to have a great system. For those of us who are old enough to remember the 60s, you’ll know what I’m talking about when I say we need a strategy for teach ins across the land.  Every one of you can be involved in that effort.

Getting to a system that opens the door to patients being active participants can no longer be left to the health care industry, or even to health care professionals. And it cannot be accomplished by patients acting as individual “consumers” in the clinic and hospital. The demand for change must come from the American people, from students, workers, community activists, business leaders, the clergy — and clinicians and patients, all those who are affected by health care’s failure to deliver.

In closing, I want to pay homage to the incredible work that all of you have done. You are testifying to the lived reality of the need for care that makes patients and families true participants. But to achieve our goals, we must take the next step towards activism and organizing.

Shannon Brownlee MSc is Senior Vice President at the Lown Institute and author of the classic Overtreated

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5 Ways We Can Begin Taking Preventative Measures Today To Improve Brain Fitness

When we talk about cures for brain illness, we tend to think in terms of the distant future. Diseases like Alzheimer's pose challenges to society at large, and the search for solutions is often measured in decades—not days. The biggest societal challenge is, of course, disease burden, with mental health costs being the largest category, even above cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, cancer or diabetes. Furthermore, mental illness will account for more than 50% of the projected economic burden over the next twenty years. With that impact in mind, now more than ever we should be asking ourselves, “What can we do today?”

In a separate but parallel silo is the evolving field of “brain fitness.” Interest in brain training grew in the early 2000s, after scans on London cab drivers showed enlarged hippocampi, the part of the brain that processes memory. As it turns out, remembering the winding roads and side streets in London significantly impacted not just a London cab driver’s ability to remember, but the actual structure of the physical brain itself.

This study was one of the catalysts for other researchers to begin exploring just how malleable the brain truly is, and how brain performance can be improved through deliberate practice.

Combine these two categories of brain health—diagnosable diseases and “brain fitness”—and suddenly a new conversation has risen: can neuroplasticity-based brain training and related research-to-practice innovation actually impact mental health, help improve people’s lives, and finally, have a significant impact on the associated economic issues.

BrainFutures thinks so.

BrainFutures 2017, a conference set for September 6-7, in Washington, DC, is devoted to spreading awareness of the latest evidence-based advancements in brain fitness and treatment technologies that can, and are, making an impact today. BrainFutures’ lens will be focused on three key areas of interest to most people:

· How is our understanding of brain plasticity transforming learning outcomes, and what are the innovative programs in schools that are helping kids succeed?

· What should we know about steps we can take to maintain brain capacity and performance as we age?

· How are advances in the use of technology (such as games and magnetic brain stimulation) and knowledge about the positive impact of diet, meditation and exercise impacting treatment outcomes for mental illness and addiction?

BrainFutures 2017 will bring together industry pioneers, experts and brain health leaders to discuss innovation that can make a difference here and now, as well as emerging practices on the horizon. The event is a meeting ground and opportunity for thought leaders and audience members alike to tackle this pressing but poignant topic, to both impact people’s lives for the better and have a profound impact on the health care economy.

So, what are some everyday preventative changes that can be done today to improve brain fitness?

1. Physical exercise can improve memory and thinking skills.

Harvard Medical School recently wrote about a University of British Columbia study that found that aerobic exercise can actually increase the size of the brain area responsible for verbal memory and learning—the hippocampus.

“Think of exercise as medication,” says John Ratey, M.D., an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. “For a very small handful of people with ADHD, it may actually be a replacement for stimulant medication, but, for most, it’s complementary — something they should absolutely do, along with taking meds, to help increase attention and improve mood.” “Exercise turns on the attention system, the so-called executive functions — sequencing, working memory, prioritizing, inhibiting, and sustaining attention,” says Ratey, author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. “On a practical level, it causes kids to be less impulsive, which makes them more primed to learn.”

In his contributions to ADDitude Magazine, he shares that exercise is an effective complementary strategy that can help to increase attention and improve mood, and for a small number of people can actually be a viable replacement for stimulant medications.

According to another study, regular physical exercise makes changes in the brain that may be able to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s. If physical exercise can reduce the onset of this disease even the slightest, it’s worth spending a bit of time each and every day getting the heart pumping.

2. Fuel for function.

When someone suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, inflammation leads to a loss of connection between nerve cells (neurons) and the brain, as explained by the National Institute on Aging. Research has shown that metabolic disorders can also affect the brain, and that by adjusting your eating habits, you can reduce the inflammation that occurs.

According to April N. Winslow, a certified nutritionist, expectations drive action. Our body is driven by the brain. This predominantly fatty acid mass of bioelectrical potential requires quality fuel if peak performance is expected. Any mental health condition (e.g., depression, anxiety, chronic worry, restlessness, fatigue, hopelessness) can be positively impacted by directing a little more attention to the fuel that is offered to the brain each day. This does not mean rigidity, rather, reflecting on the desires you have for your day, afternoon, morning, or next hour with confidence you

know how to fuel your brain."

There are three key nutrition concepts that will keep your brain running smoothly:

· Fat needs fat – The brain is 60% fat. We must lay aside our fear of consuming a food that has been labeled a word we do not want to become Omega-3 fatty acids (i.e., DHA/EPA) have repeatedly been shown to reverse the negative symptoms of most mental health conditions. Additionally, a brain bathing in plant fats, including seeds and oils, can enhance capacity for memory, integration of complex ideas, and abstract concepts.

· More color please – Color is more than just visual detail. The pigments (i.e., beta-carotene, zeaxanthin, chlorophyll, lutein) in fruit, vegetables, and fungus offer inflammatory reversing gifts along with their well-known disease preventing properties. Aim for variety and preferably, seasonable produce. Experiment. Play with cooking each of the foods in different ways (e.g., grilled, coconut oil-coated peach halves with pink sea salt, cinnamon and nutmeg).

· Drink frequently - Directing the metabolic activities of the body leaves a trail of waste that needs to be removed. Proper hydration promotes improved circulation, filtration by the kidneys, temperature regulation, and removal of waste by the digestive system. Water is an essential nutrient. Needs will vary throughout the lifespan and only you will know what is ideal. However, a perception of consistent calm energy is one option that can result with a properly hydrated brain.

3. Use it or lose it—your cognitive functioning.

With the proliferation of computer brain training programs, has come controversy about their effectiveness. However, a January 2017 Study published in Neuropsychiatry Review recently shed light on this important topic. These researchers reviewed the number and quality of studies demonstrating the effectiveness of commercially available computer cognitive training programs, and rated the evidence for seven. Study authors report that at least some of these products have good scientific evidence supporting claims that they play a role in maintaining healthy brain functioning as we age. One such study, the NIH Active Study found that older adults who received 10 sessions or more of brain training improved their cognitive functioning not just in the short-term (within months) but also over the long-term (as distant as 10 years later).

4. Prioritize quality sleep.

Those who suffer from mental diseases tend to also suffer from insomnia. However, research also shows that issues with getting a full night’s sleep aren’t just a symptom but also a potential risk factor. Studies now link poor sleep to higher levels of protein clumps forming in the brain (called beta-amyloids,) which makes it more difficult for an individual to fall into deep sleep, which is absolutely necessary for cognitive functioning and memory.

An NPR report added that “the brain appears to clear out toxins linked to Alzheimer’s during sleep, and in animals that don’t get enough solid shut-eye, those toxins can build up and damage the brain.”

The good news is that exercise, among other treatments, can help enhance quality sleep.

5. Meditation.

The practice of meditation has been found to not only reduce stress levels and improve mental clarity, but actually reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s.

According to a study done by a UCLA-led team of neuroscientists funded by the Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation, yoga and meditation showed improvements in the verbal memory skills of participants, such as remembering names and lists of words. Participants also saw improvements in visual-spatial memory skills, such as recalling locations and navigating while walking or driving. The study was comprised of people aged 55 or older.

Helen Lavretsky, the study’s senior author and professor in residence in UCLA’s department of psychiatry, shared in this UCLA column, “Memory training was comparable to yoga with meditation in terms of improving memory, but yoga provided a broader benefit than memory training because it also helped with mood, anxiety and coping skills.”

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5 Ways We Can Begin Taking Preventative Measures Today To Improve Brain Fitness

When we talk about cures for brain illness, we tend to think in terms of the distant future. Diseases like Alzheimer's pose challenges to society at large, and the search for solutions is often measured in decades—not days. The biggest societal challenge is, of course, disease burden, with mental health costs being the largest category, even above cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, cancer or diabetes. Furthermore, mental illness will account for more than 50% of the projected economic burden over the next twenty years. With that impact in mind, now more than ever we should be asking ourselves, “What can we do today?”

In a separate but parallel silo is the evolving field of “brain fitness.” Interest in brain training grew in the early 2000s, after scans on London cab drivers showed enlarged hippocampi, the part of the brain that processes memory. As it turns out, remembering the winding roads and side streets in London significantly impacted not just a London cab driver’s ability to remember, but the actual structure of the physical brain itself.

This study was one of the catalysts for other researchers to begin exploring just how malleable the brain truly is, and how brain performance can be improved through deliberate practice.

Combine these two categories of brain health—diagnosable diseases and “brain fitness”—and suddenly a new conversation has risen: can neuroplasticity-based brain training and related research-to-practice innovation actually impact mental health, help improve people’s lives, and finally, have a significant impact on the associated economic issues.

BrainFutures thinks so.

BrainFutures 2017, a conference set for September 6-7, in Washington, DC, is devoted to spreading awareness of the latest evidence-based advancements in brain fitness and treatment technologies that can, and are, making an impact today. BrainFutures’ lens will be focused on three key areas of interest to most people:

· How is our understanding of brain plasticity transforming learning outcomes, and what are the innovative programs in schools that are helping kids succeed?

· What should we know about steps we can take to maintain brain capacity and performance as we age?

· How are advances in the use of technology (such as games and magnetic brain stimulation) and knowledge about the positive impact of diet, meditation and exercise impacting treatment outcomes for mental illness and addiction?

BrainFutures 2017 will bring together industry pioneers, experts and brain health leaders to discuss innovation that can make a difference here and now, as well as emerging practices on the horizon. The event is a meeting ground and opportunity for thought leaders and audience members alike to tackle this pressing but poignant topic, to both impact people’s lives for the better and have a profound impact on the health care economy.

So, what are some everyday preventative changes that can be done today to improve brain fitness?

1. Physical exercise can improve memory and thinking skills.

Harvard Medical School recently wrote about a University of British Columbia study that found that aerobic exercise can actually increase the size of the brain area responsible for verbal memory and learning—the hippocampus.

“Think of exercise as medication,” says John Ratey, M.D., an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. “For a very small handful of people with ADHD, it may actually be a replacement for stimulant medication, but, for most, it’s complementary — something they should absolutely do, along with taking meds, to help increase attention and improve mood.” “Exercise turns on the attention system, the so-called executive functions — sequencing, working memory, prioritizing, inhibiting, and sustaining attention,” says Ratey, author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. “On a practical level, it causes kids to be less impulsive, which makes them more primed to learn.”

In his contributions to ADDitude Magazine, he shares that exercise is an effective complementary strategy that can help to increase attention and improve mood, and for a small number of people can actually be a viable replacement for stimulant medications.

According to another study, regular physical exercise makes changes in the brain that may be able to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s. If physical exercise can reduce the onset of this disease even the slightest, it’s worth spending a bit of time each and every day getting the heart pumping.

2. Fuel for function.

When someone suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, inflammation leads to a loss of connection between nerve cells (neurons) and the brain, as explained by the National Institute on Aging. Research has shown that metabolic disorders can also affect the brain, and that by adjusting your eating habits, you can reduce the inflammation that occurs.

According to April N. Winslow, a certified nutritionist, expectations drive action. Our body is driven by the brain. This predominantly fatty acid mass of bioelectrical potential requires quality fuel if peak performance is expected. Any mental health condition (e.g., depression, anxiety, chronic worry, restlessness, fatigue, hopelessness) can be positively impacted by directing a little more attention to the fuel that is offered to the brain each day. This does not mean rigidity, rather, reflecting on the desires you have for your day, afternoon, morning, or next hour with confidence you

know how to fuel your brain."

There are three key nutrition concepts that will keep your brain running smoothly:

· Fat needs fat – The brain is 60% fat. We must lay aside our fear of consuming a food that has been labeled a word we do not want to become Omega-3 fatty acids (i.e., DHA/EPA) have repeatedly been shown to reverse the negative symptoms of most mental health conditions. Additionally, a brain bathing in plant fats, including seeds and oils, can enhance capacity for memory, integration of complex ideas, and abstract concepts.

· More color please – Color is more than just visual detail. The pigments (i.e., beta-carotene, zeaxanthin, chlorophyll, lutein) in fruit, vegetables, and fungus offer inflammatory reversing gifts along with their well-known disease preventing properties. Aim for variety and preferably, seasonable produce. Experiment. Play with cooking each of the foods in different ways (e.g., grilled, coconut oil-coated peach halves with pink sea salt, cinnamon and nutmeg).

· Drink frequently - Directing the metabolic activities of the body leaves a trail of waste that needs to be removed. Proper hydration promotes improved circulation, filtration by the kidneys, temperature regulation, and removal of waste by the digestive system. Water is an essential nutrient. Needs will vary throughout the lifespan and only you will know what is ideal. However, a perception of consistent calm energy is one option that can result with a properly hydrated brain.

3. Use it or lose it—your cognitive functioning.

With the proliferation of computer brain training programs, has come controversy about their effectiveness. However, a January 2017 Study published in Neuropsychiatry Review recently shed light on this important topic. These researchers reviewed the number and quality of studies demonstrating the effectiveness of commercially available computer cognitive training programs, and rated the evidence for seven. Study authors report that at least some of these products have good scientific evidence supporting claims that they play a role in maintaining healthy brain functioning as we age. One such study, the NIH Active Study found that older adults who received 10 sessions or more of brain training improved their cognitive functioning not just in the short-term (within months) but also over the long-term (as distant as 10 years later).

4. Prioritize quality sleep.

Those who suffer from mental diseases tend to also suffer from insomnia. However, research also shows that issues with getting a full night’s sleep aren’t just a symptom but also a potential risk factor. Studies now link poor sleep to higher levels of protein clumps forming in the brain (called beta-amyloids,) which makes it more difficult for an individual to fall into deep sleep, which is absolutely necessary for cognitive functioning and memory.

An NPR report added that “the brain appears to clear out toxins linked to Alzheimer’s during sleep, and in animals that don’t get enough solid shut-eye, those toxins can build up and damage the brain.”

The good news is that exercise, among other treatments, can help enhance quality sleep.

5. Meditation.

The practice of meditation has been found to not only reduce stress levels and improve mental clarity, but actually reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s.

According to a study done by a UCLA-led team of neuroscientists funded by the Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation, yoga and meditation showed improvements in the verbal memory skills of participants, such as remembering names and lists of words. Participants also saw improvements in visual-spatial memory skills, such as recalling locations and navigating while walking or driving. The study was comprised of people aged 55 or older.

Helen Lavretsky, the study’s senior author and professor in residence in UCLA’s department of psychiatry, shared in this UCLA column, “Memory training was comparable to yoga with meditation in terms of improving memory, but yoga provided a broader benefit than memory training because it also helped with mood, anxiety and coping skills.”

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The Internet Is In BIG Trouble, Inventor Says

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The Internet Is In BIG Trouble, Inventor Says

The arena Extensive Web, as human beings, realizes it nowadays became, created by using a man named Tim Berners-Lee. With the current birthday celebration of the explosive technological innovation’s twenty-eighth anniversary, the person himself isn’t in lots of a celebratory mood. In truth, with the net nearing 30, Berners-Lee sees three challenges that he believes are the service’s greatest threats.

In line with Berners-Lee, the riskiest trends affecting the net right now that could significantly trade the manner it’s far used for the worse are the loss of control of user information, the spread of faux news, and the vagueness of political commercials on-line. Inside the letter that Berners-Lee wrote about the problem, he notes how the net has emerged as a bastardized model of what he at the beginning predicted.

In many approaches, the Web has lived up to this vision, though it has been a routine war to hold it open,” the letter reads. “But over the past one year, I’ve end up increasingly more concerned about three new traits, which I accept as true with we should address so as for the Net to meet its true capability as a device which serves all of the humanity.”

On the subject of non-public statistics, Berners-Lee expresses his problem that customers have become more and more nonchalant in freely giving non-public information which will advantage get admission to unfastened offerings. Facebook has been one in all the biggest goals of criticism bearing on this issue, However, Google and even Microsoft also are guilty of such practices.

The matter of misinformation and skewed ads to push specific political agendas are also worrisome Within the eyes of the inventor as it has made the WWW just any other platform of manipulation for monetary or political advantage, Quartz reports. Not anything makes this greater obvious than the fierce on-line conflict that went on throughout the most current presidential elections.

On the time, each facet has been competing for the pinnacle spot in spreading misinformation to bolster their candidate’s chances and diminish the other In the eyes of citizens. via all bills, the Republican facet of the aisle is the winner in terms of the sheer wide variety of fake news posted and shared.

Inventor of Treadmill

William Edward Staub becomes an American mechanical engineer who invented and advanced the first purchaser treadmill for domestic use, the PaceMaster 600, throughout the overdue Sixties. Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, who helped to popularize Staub’s invention, has described Staub as “a pioneer in a workout – no longer for the athlete, but for the loads.

Staub developed the first client treadmill after reading the 1968 ebook, Aerobics, by means of Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper. Cooper’s e-book mentioned that individuals who ran a mile for 8 mins 4-to-5 instances every week could be in higher bodily condition than folks who did now not.

Staub noticed that there were no lower priced treadmills for domestic use at that point and determined to increase a treadmill for his personal use. His son Gerald, designed an on-off transfer for the gadget.

William Staub died on July 19, 2012, at the age of 96. Apparently, he became the use of the treadmill until Might also 2012.

One of the maximum famous forms of home workout system is the treadmill, which provides a straightforward, green aerobic exercise.

For plenty, treadmills are a good choice to start a new exercising routine due to the fact on foot is well tolerated by most individuals regardless of fitness degree. As energy and patience are advanced, the treadmill may be used for walking and for c program language period schooling.

In terms of health and health, each person has different wishes, dreams, and exclusive workout routines. In case you are a runner and strolling defines your way of life, you usually pick it to be outside. But, succumbing to the tight paintings schedules, one of a kind occupations and an extended iciness warfare ahead,

Treadmills prove to be a great investment for health workout routines and strong indoor pieces of training, improving your cardiovascular health. Starting from manual to the best-motorized treadmills, they suit in one-of-a-kind budget requirements and ought to be purchased preserving in mind the long time health desires.

The following matters must be paid interest to at the same time as buying a treadmill for home or a business enterprise:

– Cost of the treadmill

Usage and fitness desires (strolling/ strolling/ Weight loss/training for runs and so on.)

Motor and horsepower(look for 1.5 to two.5 HP continuous obligation, DC cars are generally quieter)

Must offer balance, durability and smooth journey.

Are Your Adrenal Glands in Trouble

Are Your Adrenal Glands in True Form?

First, a touch heritage. Our two adrenal glands, part of the ultra-connected endocrine machine, take a seat atop our two kidneys, searching a chunk like floppy berets. Whilst they do not appearance large, they play a huge position in fitness. As in large.

Only a few doctors apprehend the adrenals and how they paintings. And, until you are at demise’s door, adrenal blood assessments are useless. The medicos lack of understanding means their adrenal remedies don’t help–and may do damage.

My adrenals haven’t finished their obligation on the grounds that a drunk motive force crashed into my parents’ vehicle whilst I used to be a child. So I’ve had a lifetime of opportunity to learn the way the adrenals paintings and what to do after they don’t paintings.

The last time I went to an endocrinologist, I had to provide an explanation for to her how adrenals feature and why the blood check doesn’t paintings. After she checked to look if I used to be accurate, she got all excited and hoped I would end up an ordinarily affected person so she may want to examine greater.

What do adrenals do?

In trendy, adrenals suppose the whole lot that occurs inside the frame is their business, so the listing in their sports is long and sundry, but allow’s have a look at some basics.

• The smaller a part of the adrenal gland creates the fight-or-flight hormones, epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine which prepare us for war while a Bengal tiger (or an ordinary strain equal) appears on the scene.

• The bigger a part of the gland creates fifty (at remaining count) exclusive hormones, maximum of which are still a thriller. some, even though, are recognized, if now not absolutely understood.

• Aldosterone balances our minerals, which facilitates keep our blood strain in taking a look at. Our food regimen and dietary supplements ought to supply the minerals, otherwise, the entire commercial enterprise does not paintings.

• Androgens produce intercourse hormones. And whilst age slows the production of estrogen, testosterone, and progesterone, the adrenals soar in to maintain everything going along, making a song a track. Which can’t appear if the adrenals are in Problem.

The Internet Get admission to and The Destiny Of Online Balloting Taken into consideration

After this hair-elevating 2016 Presidential Election and all of the communicate approximately “Voter Fraud” of Voting machines, illegal extraterrestrial beings Balloting, dead humans casting ballots, electoral university reneging, and the CIA talking approximately WMD

Whoops, I simply Russians Hacking our election system, one has to wonder if any of our votes ever get counted or that Balloting even topics? Properly, if you think our election manner is risky now, just wait until in the Destiny anyone votes Online or thru their smartphone. Yes, it’s coming, and it’s far obviously a logical development of our generation, but are we able to make it safe from hacking?

Currently, our suppose tank turned into discussing this and a fellow philosopher said that some humans, negative human beings may not be able to vote due to the digital divide, hence, it might be unfair to the terrible and African American network, here is his mind on this:

“My most effective hassle on the virtual divide among lower and better incomes is this; the government may permit $8.25 per month to pay for the Internet Get right of entry to but that only works if you have a smart cell phone or a laptop after which on pinnacle of that you have to pay for the wi-fi router if you need that the Internet Get admission to in your home. I see a couple things that the government does not always pay for. I think that we should absolutely keep away from this trouble all together via having each the app for Voting and still having the human run physical Vote casting institutions at the same time.”

I see a couple things that the government does not always pay for. I think that we should absolutely keep away from this trouble all together via having each the app for Voting and still having the human run physical Vote casting institutions at the same time.”

Sure, I’m no longer in the desire of the FCC subsidizing the Internet Get admission to both, because customers need to pay for this, much like all the ones more expenses to your cell phone invoice that nobody can determine out. There are plenty of open-WiFi structures at Starbucks, McDonalds, Libraries, authorities Homes, etc. – so, more provide-aways simply manner greater government, and extra humans counting on government, plus if authorities offers you Net Get right of entry to,

They automatically have a right to peruse the statistics, although meta-statistics, which all of us recognize can without problems perceive the individual primarily based on their past utilization. What if, everybody gets a text message to vote, then within 24-hours they need to vote for it to be counted? by using that time they might have long gone Online to publish on Fb, made a telephone name, and so forth. those without mobile telephones,

Nevertheless are a venture, however in truth, the ones are the very folks who’d vote for free stuff besides, not that everyone ought to be excluded, I am nonetheless underwhelmed at the concept that a person can be drafted at 18 but can’t vote in opposition to a warfare at the same time as 17 and that you can not drink until 21 but we are to believe the ones citizens to vote for a President?

And extra humans counting on government, plus if authorities offer you Net Get right of entry to, they automatically have a right to peruse the statistics, although meta-statistics, which all of us recognize can without problems perceive the individual primarily based on their past utilization. What if, everybody gets a text message to vote, then within 24-hours they need to vote for it to be counted? by using that time they might have long gone Online to publish on Fb, made a telephone name, and so forth. those without mobile telephones,

Nevertheless are a venture, however in truth, the ones are the very folks who’d vote for free stuff besides, not that everyone ought to be excluded, I am nonetheless underwhelmed at the concept that a person can be drafted at 18 but can’t vote in opposition to a warfare at the same time as 17 and that you can not drink until 21 but we are to believe the ones citizens to vote for a President?

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Weekend Reading, 4.28.19

Those of you who’ve been reading for a while might remember that 2017 was the year of bread baking around here.

It all started when my friend Ali published her (wonderful) cookbook, Bread Toast Crumbs. I’d wanted to get serious about homemade bread baking for a long time, but everything I’d read until that point made my eyes glaze over: it was all so technical and intimidating. Ali’s peasant bread technique—which involves no kneading and almost no dirtying of hands at all, in addition to the heartwarming fact that the loaves get baked in buttered Pyrex bowls—gave me the courage I needed.

Months later, Emilie gifted me with sourdough starter and a copy of her cookbook. Baking my first loaf of homemade sourdough was a small victory: I couldn’t believe it had actually worked, which I guess is the magic of natural leavening.

Bread baking found me at the right moment. I was having a hard time in March and April of that year: a longterm relationship had just ended, in a way that I wasn’t ready for and didn’t yet understand. For the first time in my life, I felt completely ill-suited to being on my own. I moved through my space and my days in a haze of confusion and grief, feeling scared and alone and more than a little sorry for myself.

If that period of time taught me anything, it was the gift of small things. None of the big stuff—love, graduate school, sense of direction or purpose—seemed to be working out. Even work, which is typically a major source of meaning for me, felt rote and joyless. My post-bacc years and the ones that followed hadn’t been easy, but they’d been animated with an incredible sense of yearning and direction. Suddenly, I had neither.

What I did have were my daily routines, which I fought to maintain even when things like cooking and chores felt insurmountable. I knew from past experiences with depression that keeping up with small habits, even if they felt suddenly like a lot of work, was the least I could do. And I did, day after day, until they started not to feel so tough anymore.

For a while it was all pretty muted, but as the months went by, I was reminded of my own capacity to be gratified by simple pleasures: good food, a clean home, a walk to the park, an hour of reading. I didn’t have a plan, but I did have the next meal and the next task, and at that moment, those things were enough.

And there was bread. It’s always been my comfort food, and I’d have eaten plenty of it that spring even if I weren’t baking it from scratch (for a while there, toast and cake were the only two things I wanted to eat). But I was baking from scratch, week after week, and it was wonderful. Unlike some other DIY food projects I’ve tried—kombucha, yogurt, seitan—this felt like the right ratio of effort and reward. The bread was so much better than anything I could buy, and I actually liked the process: mixing, shaping, scoring. The smell of a loaf in the oven on Saturday morning became something I looked forward to all week long. I wouldn’t quite say that bread baking got me through the year, but I can’t imagine that spring and summer without it.

I kept up with homemade bread for a while. But sometime last spring, in the race to the grad school finish line, the habit fell away. Once my internship started, it felt silly and imprudent to bake when I needed grains, beans, and fully cooked meals as weekly mainstays. During my acute care rotation, when getting the laundry done was a challenge, feeding my starter was the last thing on my mind.

My GI rotation gives me two weekdays off, which has been a gift in so many ways: it allows me to ease up on my batch cooking, to get work done during the week, and to have a true weekend. Most of all, having a little extra time on my hands gave me a kick in the pants to bake bread again. Now that I’m in the swing of it—one or two loaves weekly for the last four weeks—I’m rolling my eyes at the fact that I didn’t make time for it sooner. It’s a time commitment, sure, like anything/everything else. And it’s time perfectly spent.

I cook because it’s fun, healthful and economical. But cooking and feeding myself will always be a symbolic act as well as a practical one: it’s my way of asserting the desire to be alive, nourished, and whole. Bread making speaks to this desire more than almost any other type of cooking that I do. The fact that the process demands patience and time is only more evidence that, no matter what’s going on, I want to eat well and be well. I’m so glad to have been reminded of this in the past month.

Wishing you a week of good food and good self-care. Here are some recipes and reads.

Recipes

Speaking of Ali, I’m loving her latest, Indian-inspired fried rice recipe.

Yet more motivation to branch out with my air fryer. This time, a vegan sheet pan supper with lemony tempeh from Susan at FFVK.

I love the looks of this sun-dried tomato pesto (and the yummy pappardelle that accompanies it).

A pretty phenomenal looking vegan kidney bean burger.

I’ve never made cookie dough in a blender, but consider me inspired by these chocolate cookies.

Reads

1. I believed that too much water at mealtimes could “dilute” stomach acid for years! Evidence says otherwise, and this article—in which my current preceptor, Tamara Duker Freuman, is interviewed—explains. (For the record, when I was working in a GI practice in DC, I did learn that chugging water at mealtimes can encourage the swallowing of air, which can be bloating, so steady sips are still a wise idea if you’ve got a sensitive digestive tract.)

2. More support for the value of eating breakfast.

3. Popular Science busts some sleep myths (sobering stuff for those of us who often do without enough of it, and tell ourselves it’s NBD).

4. Yikes! Bad news for allergy sufferers like me (yes, it’s getting worse, and climate change is in part to blame).

5. Finally, I wanted to link to this post from my friend Maria. It’s a lovely meditation on meeting oneself and one’s feelings—including the despondent ones—with acceptance and faith in the promise of release and transformation.

On that note, enjoy the remainder of this Sunday. And happy Orthodox Easter to those of you who celebrate today—maybe a bowl of vegan avgolemono is in order.

xo

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