I've been ignoring the emails I've gotten recently encouraging me to get the flu shot. Maybe I better reconsider.

Hope you and E2 are feeling better soon.

for the new variant?
I don't get it. Means you are
protected for something that
has come and gone I guess.
Paper towels are my friend.

are coming down with something like a cold or the flu. Over time I have ditched the antibiotics for sinus infections which migrated to lungs on a regular basis. This happened three or more times a year when I was in prime working years. When I questioned my doctor about the drainage secondarily infecting my lungs, he said he was firing me as a patient.

From then I started using steam and anything I could to prevent infections but generally was healthier. Decades later moving to France we bought a house with a serious mold problems which caused my lungs to get clobbered. I was eventually diagnosed with Pulmonary fibrosis, based on MRI scans and easily visible damage.

Very scary as I was told that I would never recover. I don't know what propelled me but I continued to look for solutions to maybe heal and to prevent further infections. It's not perfect as I still get seasonal somethings some which feel quite severe but I do have an expanding arsenal which I will share here. I am still experimenting looking for whatever can help me withstand what comes our way.

First to address the broken airways, I started walking at least 5 kilometers a day. It was a difficult start, but we were near the Atlantic coast so walked with our dog rain, snow or shine everyday. It help expel the thick gunk gathering in my lungs and increased my lung capacity. Even when coming down with an infection I would get out for at least ten minutes and slowly crawly to the little stone bridge.

A respiratory therapist gave me some Chinese exercises with my arms stretched out in front; arms stretched overhead; and arms stretched to the sides. Breathing in, then extend and include a low hum to activate the Vagas Nerve. Starting with a set of two and ending with five and doing it twice a day. Expansion of lung capacity, and stretching of ribs and lungs seemed to help.

I ordered a Beurer steam nebulizer which covers the nose and mouth. It's a little thermos which heats up to create steam delivered directly to the nose and mouth. In the treatment water I put sea salt in clean water; peppermint oil to calm the lung inflammation; very little Tea Tree oil to deal with infection; Colloidal Silver to heal wounded lungs; and medicinal hydrogen peroxide also for healing. I think this thing saved my lungs and my life.

This little machine is German designed. Available from Amazon. I have had to replace it several times over four years, but considering what I would pay to go to a restaurant, it was an easy solution.

Finally due to Covid, we read about rinsing nose and sinuses before and especially after going out with people or having someone into our home for lunch or dinner. So we added using a large syringe filled with sea salt water (too little stings like hell; too much stings like hell. It should taste like ocean water.) In 8 ounces of salt water add four drops of Lugol's Iodine. Make the solution in a cup and barely warm, snort into the nose alternating nostrils (at first it seems so gross, but we can do this in under a minute now); after emptying a large syringe (Amazon) gargle and hum with the rest of the cup. It rinses out the membranes of new breathed in viruses or other irritants (smoke, pollution, dust), thins mucus a lot, opens airways. I sleep a lot better if I do this.

If I feel my throat starting to get scratchy or I feel low energy and my lungs are tight, I use first the rinse, then we walk and finally the nebulizer.

Finally, we order from India and keep on hand boxes of 12 mg Ivermectin. If I'm paying attention to my health and something is off or I have developed full blown flu, I take three 12 mg am, noon and evening. It helps slow or stop the symptoms so fast it's quite an amazing thing. A Midwestern Doctor who writes book chapter length essays on "Umbrella medicines" has devoted quite a bit of writing to Ivermectin. It has many mechanisms of action and can work on many dis-eases of the body with little to now side effects even at high dosages.

Vigilant Fox on substack has undertaken the task of editing AMD's work into more concise and readable formats. I don't think it is going too far to say this substance (Japanese guy got the Nobel in Medicine for the discovery because of its effects on parasites) is a miracle.

We also include pure Castor Oil with DMSO (99% pur from Germany)and Colloidal Silver to heal sore joints, varicose veins, small growths, scar tissue and adhesions. Most of these umbrella medicinals are available online.

I know we do other things to keep limber, and eat well ( we are so lucky in the quality and diversity of food we can get, it is our foundation), but this is as good a summary as I can put together for now.

It's never too late to incorporate new practices into daily life or in a time of illness.

If one person finds any of this helpful it was well worth the time to put this into writing.

Good health everyone.

as a result of life-saving surgery back in 2002. So, I m very grateful for my life-long interest in the human body, diet and health. The flu has been wicked here in ECFL, too. One of my good friends told me a co-worker got the flu, and he was so sick, he was praying for death. Thankfully, he recovered, She, too, got it, not from her co-worker and she was sick as a dog. When I had my physical last November, I got both my flu and Covid shots. I hate needles, too. I have not been sick in years, thankfully. RFK, Jr. can go jump in the nearest polluted lake! Rec'd!!