I was supposed to be working on my Anatomy and Physiology course today, but the text was so dry and confusing that I decided I was going to take a break from it. I typed “Anatomy” on Stumbleupon, hoping to find some interesting sites that would help me more than the text I was reading, and I stumbled upon this very interesting article about a man who was forced to operate on himself to take out his appendix.
One of my teachers have actually mentioned something about learning how to do this for himself. He’s an adventurer and frequently goes hiking and camping in the wilderness on his own. Although he’s never had to operate on himself, he knew that if he got appendicitis when he was alone in the woods and far from any help, he would die if he couldn’t operate on himself.
So he studied anatomy and herbs, figuring that he’d use what he could find in the woods, and he did some meditation stuff to help him learn to control his heart rate and body functions so that he’d be able to operate on himself if he ever needed to, and that was what started him on the journey of becoming a herbalist.
I myself am interested in herbs and natural health, but I am not an adventurer like him, and I would be too afraid of the many other ways I could die in the wilderness, forget about appendicitis! I would probably never venture into the wilderness on my own, ever, and never to a place that’s so isolated that I couldn’t get to help in an hour or so.
Yes, I’m a wimp, and that’s why I have the utmost respect for people like my teacher and the man in the article who actually did have to operate on himself. All I can hope for myself, is to learn as much as I can about herbs and natural health so that I can help people, and myself, without having to resort to invasive surgery.
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