Monday, August 25, 2008

Why it is easy for me to make people explode.

Some background on me will probably help everyone understand why I am doing this. When I say I am Army Wife Anti-matter, I am not exaggerating. First off, I keep my hair the blood red you see in the picture. (In the interest of honesty, it is currently purple. That is because I had to dye my hair back to it's natural color for my pregnancy, and when I was ready to dye it back I was to broke to buy the red {it takes 4 bottles @ $10 ea to do all of my hair}, and my friend "nee-nee," as the kids call her, was generous enough to give me some purple that she had so I could get rid of the God-awful brown/grey. She was also wonderful enough to put the dye in my hair, which is a 2+ hr process because my hair is very thick, not to mention down past my rear.) And I have my lip pierced. And I tend to wear allot of black (What? It is slimming... lol). Add to all that the fact that I am very crunchy. For those of you who are unfamiliar with that term, a more general term is hippie. I cook mostly organic, I am about 70% vegetarian, I do not immunize my children, I even buy mostly organic body products - IE shampoo, soap, lotion, etc. I have proven that I know more than most nutritionists about REAL healthy food, and I also know more about effective natural treatments/cures than most doctors. I am not saying that all modern medicine is bad. Nor am I saying that all "natural" equals "good". Hemlock is totally natural, but I don't suggest you make tea with it.... and I have personally witnessed natural medicine cure what medical science could not. In Dec of '05, my husband was diagnosed, via biopsy, with Chrons Disease. He was put on 3 different meds, which, without insurance, would cost $1000+ / mo. The meds made him tired and bitchy, and did not help the Chrons at all. So we decided to go the all natural route. $1500 and 2 mo later, he felt great. He was re-biopsied in Aug '07, and was found to be completely free of Chrons. I am not a big conspiracy theorist per-se, but the bottom dollar is all most people/companies care about, so of course they would want him on $1000/mo meds for the rest of his life as opposed to 1 $1500 treatment. Think about it. I think this is why allot of people get aggravated with me. People don't like being pulled out of their comfort zone, and the thought that modern medicine prefers us to be sick is scary. People really hate it when you point out the obvious. I also tend to be very blunt, esp after someone talks down to me like I am automatically ignorant because of how I look (like 90% of the doctors at the MTF {military treatment facility} do). I am sure most people's next question is "If you get harassed all the time without working for it, why are you actively seeking out more irritations, when shutting up would relieve most of the stress from your life?" (My mother asks me this constantly). I could go the pedestal route and say it is because I want to be able to help people learn to think for themselves and question everything (our world would be so much better if people asked more questions instead of blindly accepting what is handed to them). But at the end of the day, the true answer is much more narcissistic than that - I like to irritate those who deserve it. And, yes, it is up to me to decide who deserves it. Because I said so.

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