Day 48--Holy Istic, Batman

I had my yearly checkup w/ my nephrologist this morning to talk about my hypertension and medication.  I don't know what possessed me to schedule the appointment for 8:30 when I have a 9:00 class....thought for sure my blood pressure would be through the roof, especially since it has been for the last couple of months.  But today it was normal.....well, normal for me (152/86).  As w/ each doctor I revisit, I told him what was new w/ my health.  I told him about the sinus and ear infections and outbreak of erythema multiforme along w/ the B-cell lymphoma.  His response was, "Your immune system is shot."  Thank you, Captain Obvious!!  Then he proceeded to tell me how he's  pursuing credentials in holistic health and how I should be getting to the root cause rather than treating all these various problems in different parts of my body.  He used the analogy of a plant who is mostly healthy but might have two brown leaves on completely different stems.  Modern medicine paints the leaves green rather than trying to figure out what the plant is being fed through the soil that might cause the sick leaves.  It was a good analogy, but I really understood w/o it, and by now I was running dangerously close to being late for class.  He did make a very good point when saying that Western medicine should be called alternative since most everything our healthcare providers provide is foreign to our bodies.  Our bodies are perfectly capable of healing themselves, given the proper environment, which is the way I think God intended it.  I would also like to get at the root of my immune deficiencies in a holistic manner.

This doctor's appointment was very ironic.  Three or four years ago, I had asked this same doctor if we could try some alternative ways to treat my blood pressure, and he responded, "Why would you want to change something that's working?"  Now when he's finally onboard to my idea of exploring options, I had no time to talk.