It's Only A Cold.

 It starts as a low rattle.  The rattle becomes a hoarse cough.  Then you stand up and the sneezes sneak up on you.  Now the sneezes never attack one at a time, but rather they come as a pack of wolves and wait till you're not expecting the onslaught.  Let loose the dogs of war, then the nose dribbles.  

Breathing becomes optional and the color blue a normal hue.  Shiva reborn, the destroyer walks and the body raises it's temperature to 104 Fahrenheit.  You turn around to see who's behind you, and the body begins to ache.  Not a real hurt pain, not the kind of pain that is easily ignored deadened with an Aspirin, the kind of pain that brings an almost tear to the eye and that knot in the jaw bubbles.  

A Native Grandma puts a poltus on your chest, an Irish Grand-mom gives you a two fingered shot of Whiskey.  That one endowed with multiple wisdoms uses both, and why not?  

There might be a moment when standing up becomes somewhat of a challenge.  The room spins, the ears ring and the floor may or may not come up to meet you at an accelerated rate.  If the circumstances are in your favor at those moments you are close enough to the porcelain throne to let the vomitus jet expel safely from the body.   If not, there will be a mess to deal with.  Eventually the sleeping allows you to catch it.  

The rising sun brings a promise of a new beginning.  Tea, honey, and lemon speak to you.  An aspirin fights the lingering aches and pains.  The body slowly wakes, coffee is in the cup and the morning routine awaits.  It is a new day.

Peace and Balance,

John 

Illness or Not

 

There are few things more painful than watching a loved one suffer, and there is nothing more hopeless than an undiagnosed disease that the medical community has no way of dealing with. This has been my past three days. 

Witnessing things happening on a human level that defy understanding or science leaves little left for speculation.  The art of gathering information and intelligence is very much related to the scientific method.  The difference is in the experimentation and testing phase.  This stage is replaced with observation and supposition based on experience, training, and education.  The gatherer of the intelligence must use known examples of the information to make an intelligent guess, and weigh with past experience to come up with  rational decisions that lead to answers to said and unsaid questions.  The art of the spy. This to breaks down when the observations defy the understanding. 

There are many types of illness.  First is physical illness when the physical body and the self aren't communicating in balance and something goes awry in the body.  This could be anything that causes a physical injury, a little owie to a real big booboo.  Then there are diseases where something either bacterial or viral that change the operations of the physical being and interject itself into the body in one way or another.  This is when the body gets ill and tries fighting back.  Sometimes successfully, other times not and we either die or we survive. 

Second are non physical illnesses.  These include mental and emotional illnesses as well as psychic and non intelligible illness. This is when the unknown interjects it's sneaky attack upon  our realities and sensibilities. These illnesses would include attacks from nonphysical entities.  Examples of which might be your standard Vampire, and other psychic parasites that may wander into your space.  

There are many cures, reliefs, and methods to create balance back into the being of the patient. These potions and elixirs may include anything from an aspirin to an iron stake pounded into the Vampires heart grounding it forever into the act of creation and destruction permanently binding the Vampire to the void illuminating it from material existence.  A secret not normally taught about a Vampire is that it is a paranoid creature that fears it's own unknown demise.  It will read an implication as blatant as it can be and still be afraid.  Then be sent away fearing grounding at the end of iron. 

As illnesses go, there are few things that are as painful as witnessing the pain of a loved one.  Finding the cure can be as troublesome as killing a Vampire.

Peace and Balance,

John