Hobbit feet and Placebos

Today was a beautiful day, noticeably colder than recent days, but after last night’s deluge it was a chance for the places that got flooded to dry up a bit. We seem to be getting deluges every few weeks to pay for the lengthy spells of dryish weather. A bit like the tropics minus the heat.

I was sitting in the garden and watching the clouds racing across the sky making artwork of mother nature. I don’t mind the cold I’m just grateful right now to just experience the weather as the Norwegians say ” no such thing as bad weather only bad clothing” I suppose that is perfectly true. I’ve never met a Norwegian complaining about the weather so that answers that.🇳🇴

Today I’ve been boosted , I had to stand and wait in a queue for over an hour for the privilege of having another needle in my arm.💉

The Norwegian saying certainly came true today as luckily my wife said don’t forget your jacket it’s cold out. She was right as she is 99.6% of the time. The .04 % of the time she is wrong is not worth talking about😃 

Where was oh yes I was in the Covid booster jab queue, sadly most of it was in the shade so the jacket was gratefully worn. There was some moaning and bickering going on. Why are people so rude and horrible to the staff. 😭

I got chatting to a nice lady and we talked how the poor young volunteer was getting some grief off of people. You can see it from both sides but people sometimes just go a bit over the top with their responses. I suppose people like me who have a reason to want to experience more life will see it differently and don’t see it their way I’m just happy to be able to stand in a queue. ❄️

As you get to the last bit of the queue there is a patch where there is a gap in the trees and the sun was shining warmly down,☀️ now that was nice. I made sure I told the volunteers what a great job they were doing, I thought this young girl who was being bullied handled it well. 👏

Next thing I had to do was I had a hospital appointment as I wasn’t expecting such a long queue I had assumed I would be able to go home have a bite to eat and then go to the hospital most importantly I would be able to have my lunch time tablets which I needed. I thought I’ll go home and if get to the hospital I’ll explain what happend. The appointment was to see the surgeon at the fracture clinic. 👨‍⚕️

I managed to get home have lunch and take my meds and get up to the hospital with about 5 minutes to spare, I didn’t get stressed out what’s the point I can’t control time or traffic so why get upset and stressed. 

The fracture clinic was running 30 minutes late so I had enough time to pick up a take away coffee. ☕

I was called into the office for what turned out to be very brief session I’m not really sure what was the point of the consultation the only advice I got about my swelling ankles and almost Hobbit like feet was as long as it was in both legs that’s ok it won’t be a blood clot. I thought what if it’s two clots but didn’t want to override his expertise and just shut up. Not the most positive experience I’m searching for a positive to say. I suppose the coffee was good and it had chocolate sprinkles on it , oh and I qualify for free parking oh and I didn’t get lost even once.🅿️☕📡

Now before I leave, I have some thoughts about doctors, in my opinion there are two types of doctor, I’m talking personality here not what they do. Those that give you hope and those that we’ll, just don’t have that demeanour.He was of the latter. Now don’t get me wrong he’s probably a brilliant surgeon and saved many lives and I totally respect him for that but he made me feel like a terminal cancer patient. It’s hard to explain feelings like this, I suppose it’s like a teacher telling a young child they will never be clever and that is how I felt and I can’t help that. 👦👧🚸

As a driving instructor I told little white lies to all my students whether they were learner drivers or ambulance students. You see I know how it feels to feel put down and it’s not motivating in any way. It’s easier to give up when the teacher is not inspiring you. 

I know I produced very good drivers because of this style of being. Why tell someone they are crap or will never get through this course, people in general like to be told good positive things, I used to look for the positives in people. Once you find the positives the other stuff starts taking care of itself.➕

My Lovely Italian doctor gave me facts but with every fact she told me a positive. I left her room with hope and possibility.☀️

I left the doctor yesterday feeling like a dead man walking, it’s hard to explain these feelings. You just know deep down in your soul I suppose. It’s interesting because I read in a book once that doctors just by their very demeanour can alter someone’s prognosis it’s a bit of a placebo effect in fact the book is called you are the placebo effect by Dr Joe Dispenza.

It’s a facinating book Dr Joe says you are the the placebo effect and I totally agree with him. My life is full of placebos. 💊

I have a jug of water at home labeled love positiveity gratitude and kindness, and if you read the findings by a Dr Maduro Emoto you will see that if you label any thing that contains water it changes the property of that water. Facinating stuff. 💦🚰

He did an experiment which I believe is also repeated by many school classes he took 3 gasses and labeled each one with a word, love hate and ignore sometimes he just didn’t label the third jar. 

He filled each glass with rice to about half way and then poured water on to the rice enough to cover the top of the rice he left the glasses on a shelf and then each day he did what it said on the label. He ignored the one that said ignore he spoke to the glass that was labeled love in a kind way using kind words to do with love and gratitude . He treated the one labeled hate with disdain and used hateful words to it.

He did this for a month and the results were always the same the one labeled hate had turned rotten the one labeled ignore had also turned rotten and black, the one labeled love hadn’t changed the water was clear. 

He did this experiment over and over again the result was always the same . This was repeated by Japanese school children in their classes the results were always the same, this experiment has been done all over the world.

Dr Emoto then started to take water samples from and froze them to see the shape and clarity of the ice crystal again the crystal changed depending on what he labeled the water before he froze it.

So let’s think on that a moment your body is approx 75 % water the earth is covered by the same ratio your brain is about 75% water too . You are literally made of water and you want that water to be clear and not contaminated , that water that is your life because with out you can’t live, think of this experiment and think of what you constantly say to yourself is the water picking up the things you say. I’m not enough I’m useless, I can’t , Im ugly, Im hopeless the list of negatives of what people tell themselves in that self talk.

who knows but it’s a possibility in my placebo world for sure, if you don’t believe you may be missing out on something no matter how rediculous it all may sound.

 Interestingly we stopped using that jug about 6 months ago I gues the label fell off and nobody bothered to replace it. 

Before that I and my family had no illness since that label was on a good 3 years and I mean no illness what so ever. since we stopped using the jug we’ve all had covid and I’ve got cancer.

My wife and daughter have both had colds and coughs.That’s the power of belief or is it the power of being kind to water. Did that label do what Dr Emoto says it will do. I like to think it did.

The new label that I believe in is on the jug, my daughter made it on her ipad. 

My life is a placebo effect I say thank you to each tablet I take, each injection I have, each drip that goes into me, you just got to have something to hold onto and believe.

Did you know that Disney plasters work better than plain ones for children , it’s the belief that comes from the Disney character that works in children not the plaster.