Have you ever stopped to realize more people die from things inside their bodies then those outside. Think about it. I myself only know 2 people that died of gunshot, and 2 that died of car accident. I know one that hung himself. These are all things that come from outside your body. I knew well over 50 people that have died from diseases inside their body. One died from a broken infected gallbladder that she could have been cured of had she had the operation to remove it. She died way too young because she failed to realize the danger of the infection growing inside her. She left behind 4 offspring. The youngest was a 10 year little girl who is now growing up without her mom.
Then there are all the people I know who have died of cancer. Cancer is something that runs in both sides of my family and I have lost many relatives to it including my mother. My father died of a heart attack. Again he was killed from inside his body. The interesting thing about that is 40 years before his actual death an army doctor gave him only a year to live and he lived 40. Just goes to show what a strong will to survive can do for you.
The real tragedies are those who know there is something wrong inside their body and do nothing to find it and try to fix it, because they are doomed. More often then not people could be made well again and live long lives if they just saw the disease, parasite, or infection for what it was and got it taken care of instead of ignoring the signs till it is too late to heal the malady for what it is. I always know if something is not right with my body. I may not know without a doctor what it is but I always know if there is something wrong.
People are so afraid of germs today. The sanitizer and disinfectant businesses are making millions working on peoples paranoia about germs. What they do not tell you is: every time you use one of these things it does not kill all the germs and the ones that escape become immune to the product meant to kill them so the next generation is stronger and immune to the sanitizer or disinfectant. You are also making your own immune system weaker when you use these things because when our bodies get germs inside them and we do not die from them our immune system gets stronger, because it has fought off that germ. I am originally from the mountains, we would often go out to the garden and pull a vegetable wipe the dirt if any off with our hands and eat it without even going in to wash it. It did not kill us it gave us healthy immune systems largely because we did not use all the pesticides the big companies of today do. We had chickens and pigeons that ate most of the bugs around our house. ( Cute side bar about the pigeons because that is not something you see a lot of in the mountains. My big brother got the first 2 from a teacher when he was in high school. Their parents had made a nest in his yard and he did not want them to stay so he brought the babies to school to find them a new home. When he asked the class if anyone wanted them my brother took them. The poor little things rode around in the trunk of my brothers car for hrs till he remembered they were there at 10:00 at night. He ran out to get them and when he brought them in they were still alive. My mom took one look at them and told him they are too little to eat on their own. You should have seen my mom and my brother crunching up corn really fine and holding the chicks beaks open and forcing the food down their throats. It may not have been the best way to foster baby birds BUT it worked they both grew up and stayed. Well Singing Sam stayed unfortunately the girl got caught by a hawk not long after they started flying and dad had to get Singing Sam a new mate. By the time we left there the flock was over 100 pigeons. My dad loved to watch them fly. Some even had feathers on their feet we never did figure that out as neither Singing Sam or the girl neither one had feathers on their feet.)
Back to the point of this blog now: People spend too much time worrying about things on the outside of their body causing them to die. They should worry about the infection inside the body killing them.
Yea this was a little morbid but memorial day is coming up so why not talk about how to keep more people from dyeing? You all drive save because even though car crashes will not kill you as often as the things you put inside your body. On holidays you are facing BOTH the car on the outside of your body and the alcohol on the inside of the body of the person that may hit you.
