About

I'm dying, and with my remaining time I'm trying to save the world. Mostly with respect to the coming "Zombie Apocalypse." Doing this by picketing, distributing flyers, creating a web presence. That's me picketing on the right. Below is the latest flyer.

A lot of the reason I'm dying is that I fight. Always have. Only in my case, I've always had to. Always! Despite adequate insurance, all my life I have been unable to obtain medical or health care from doctors. And I have serious medical problems. My attempts at employment have been amazingly undermined. And on and on, for every aspect of my life. While I do enjoy complaining, these are not trivial.

Let's get to it. What am I dying of? Well, in order of severity

* Omitted, cause if I say this, you might not read the rest. But, you know.

* Addison's disease. It's an adrenal, kidney, deficiency. And it's life threatening without proper treatment. Most people die of it at my age about two weeks after visiting a doctor with complaints, if treatment is not begun immediately. I didn't bother, for obvious reasons. But I have an excellent knowledge of nutrition and was able to save myself. (It does not, btw, make you crazy!) The adrenals help you heal, help you deal with stress, give you energy, help you lose weight when you exercise, ahem.

* A complete auto-immune breakdown. The body attacts itself with any irritants it perceives to be a threat on exposure, making any "toxins" far more dangerous. For me that's just: plants, food, the air. I have asthma and MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity). Especially sensitive to benzene-- anything gas/oline related: car exhaust, gas stations, gas stoves, cigarette smoke, etc. I have Celiac disease, as well, and can't have gluten foods. But that is only a small part of what I can't eat. Eating anything outside a limited set of foods causes auto-immune attack.

* A total life-threatening nutritional collapse. I can no longer digest food. Haven't been able to for about 2yrs. Can't get proper or enough nutrition from the foods I eat and have severe nutritional deficiencies. Even when taking adequate vitamins and eating a very good diet. Manifestations:

    * Pernicious Anemia (B12)
    * Iron-deficiency Anemia
    * Pellagra (B3, can't be exposed to the sun)
    * Endothermia (B5)
    * B6 deficiency (causes heart palpitations)
    * name a vitamin necessary for normal life functioning, I'm seriously deficient!

The reason I have Iron-deficiency Anemia is simple. I bleed 1-2 pints of blood, hemmorhage, every month. I sought medical attention, multiple physicians. Upon telling this to one doctor, he said: "Your Chi is blocked." And that was the end of the appointment, nothing else was done. The head of the UC Davis medical team at the time, simply stared at the floor and nothing was done, not even a blood test for low iron! These visits were not consistent with AMA guideline practices and they were all the same-- incompetent! So, yes, I complain, but not anywhere near as much as I need to!

Here I am at SDCC 2016. I finally made it! Carrying my sign and handing out flyers. Let me assure you- it cost me! I'm wearing the "Grr Argh" tee with my "Firefly" "hands of blue" sun-protective gloves on. Hard to see, but I had just added the Spider-man spider to my left shoulder there, and webbing to my arms.

Several people in the picture are not looking at me, but at my car, at the curb where I'm standing, with its:
"*Resist *Believe *Love" sign.