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[3piggles]

Sadly, all medical systems, single payer or personal insurance, are pretty much the same. If we're diagnosed with depression or anxiety, we're classified as "off", and everything gets blamed on us being off. If we have a problem, it just a side effect of the meds. Doctors won't even look for anything else. If they look for something else, they run the obvious tests. If those don't pan out, it's right back to being psychological, not physical. I'm so sorry you're going through that, but you are so not alone 😢

Also, you're not alone liking your own company ,and that of animals, over most people. I hope you find a way out of the systems, and I'm really glad you walked into that pet store. I think your boys are really glad you did, too.

You're dealing with the negatives, which shows a great deal of inner strength. You should be proud of yourself ❤

[gremlin40]

I don't feel proud though...what I really feel is mild surprise lol.

I broke down...my abusers broke me over and over...people who endure psychotic breakdown rarely survive it...I have survived 3. The first left me with the mentality of a 5 year old for 5 months and I was wrongfully arrested by police instead of being taken to hospital for medical treatment...so I never got proper treatment. The second one - I lured police to my home and tried to make them shoot me - I was tasered twice and class 1 sexually assaulted in hospital by staff. The police used a medical barrier device to render me blind and hospital staff stripped me naked with a pair of scissors with makes in the room. I undoubtedly looked like a POW victim on that floor. I was never physically violent during this mistreatment. Not even a little bit. With the last one, I did not try to end my life as I know my abusers were hoping I would. I was sexually harassed by their employee and they returned him to work a week after I filed complaint with key access to my home and said I didn't remember what happened properly. I sued them and my case wad accepted for sex discrimination, but not before they evicted me in retaliation for complaining. I know without any doubt it would have pleased them no matter how "societally acceptable" their fabricated and calculated reaction would have been in the aftermath if I had taken my own life in despair.

I lost suicidal impulse almost completely as I was applying for physician assisted death and composing my after-life package regarding what I wanted done with my remains. How strange is that? The process of procedurally and logically preparing for death must have triggered some deep seeded mental survival instinct that was not working before.

The process turned out to be hugely therapeutic despite the discrimination I am facing in getting approval.
I never had suicidal ideology or impulse until I was 19 and a doctor put me on depression meds after my first boyfriend and I broke up. I wanted counselling, but he suggested pills and I never questioned him. I trusted him.

My new little guinea buddies are every reason I need to actually enjoy the life I still have. 🤗

[gremlin40]

Everything I have noted has happened over the last 10 years.

Everything before that...well, it's just as bad but at least I could work full time and go to college. I paid for all of it myself... I barely dated, I was always so busy. The more I was abused or hurting physically from car accident injury (happened 2 years after I finished college, was rear-ended while I was on way home from picking up my T4 from work on Easter long weekend - all of my friends left me in the car because of the smell of gas - they were afraid of the car catching fire and evacuated themselves. Those pieces of s--t, they never even tried at all to get me to safety. ---

Anyway,the harder I worked...and I became a workoholic until the damage from the car accident almost killed me after 10 years of battling to save my own life.
I used to roll out of bed, hit the floor flat and crawl to the phone to say I could not come in. My employer was an absolutely evil person - so cruel because I was so young...youngest account manager by 20 years. Her brother made a bet with the manufacturing staff that I wouldn't last 2weeks when I started... I lasted 6 years before I finally quit.

Top it off...my doctor at the time put me into a grand mal seizure and then lied about it for 3 years...until 30 days before trial was to begin. He also turned out to have drug addiction issues, which I raised issue of because I believed he may have been high when he did the prednisone injection that caused my seizure. I ended up with a stutter for 2 months...no speech therapy intervention was ordered by my doctor...he was too busy covering his filthy ass and in denial that it happened at all.

When I came out of it, the sob was kneeling next to me with a grin on his face, right up until I said weakly "what the f- did you do to me?"

The thoracic specialist who later diagnosed my Thoracic Outlet Syndrome caused by the accident (Dr. Bill Neleems) said I would be dead of heart failure before 27 is now dead...of sudden heart failure. I am still here. Ironic.

I returned to the Fraser Valley because I expected to die from the heart failure and needed to be with my family, but they didn't want me and abused me and drove me away.

I am still alive. Sort of.

[3piggles]

You have had a really rough time, and you deserve to feel proud of yourself for surviving it. Doesn't mean you have to, but if you did, it would be warranted. I'm not going to psychobabble you about putting it all behind you and moving on. Your life has made you what you are, and will continue to shape you. Just appreciate the aspects of yourself that are good. You are basically a PTSD survivor, and have to appreciate all you can about yourself, as often as possible. It isn't easy, but I hope you can.

If you want to talk more privately, go to the Message section, and send me a message.

[gremlin40]

I deeply appreciate your kindness and I mean this. Privacy is of no issue... I have not been designated as a private person since I became a registered person with disabilities.

That's what the government doesn't tell you. When you become a registered dependant of the state, you are no longer "seen" as a natural person with the same rights as everyone else. You are automatically deemed to consent to a different set of rules...you become the property, or dependent, or burden, on the state...any of these words is suitably applicable.

I realized... privacy is my enemy, and my abusers power. I was never the one hiding and being sneaky and playing games and keeping secrets. I love this the most about me... I didn't have to try hard to face truth my whole life, even the ugliest parts. I am a good person, however poisoned and shattered.

I tell people nowadays: "Handle me as if you are handling broken glass...be reckless with me and you will get cut."

I see or hear evil, I speak of it plainly... I will yell it out in psycho rage if I have to...this is the opposite of the 3 wise monkeys teaching. Ignorance is not bliss...it is civil death for good people, good society, and freedom to be a healthy individual.

Those that ignore and close their eyes and ears are not wise "monkeys"...they are accessories to the crimes they turn their eyes away from. They are willing participants to their own desolate future.

One day each of us will be disabled...unless we are lucky and Death takes us suddenly.

I have become my abusers at times...and I know without any doubt at all that a time will come when my abusers will become me.

I was excellent at bullying the bullies when I was young - I loved making them suffer their own ego, never realizing that I was feeding the horrible growth of my own because it was not natural for me to hurt people...even as I did so I cried after...and focused telling myself that it had to be done to protect the people I loved. I gained wisdom...at a horrible price. My internal rage is an unrestful animal of instinct and violence when provoked.

So me at my ego mental level loved hurting the abusers ..but me at my innermost core wept for the abusers who became the abused...abused by me. What a ton of confusion for a kid to process. My brother gave me heck for crying after beating the hell out of a bully who hurt my little brother severely.

People who mistake me for stupid and weak, and who think it is funny to ridicule me and cause me harm are not only dangerous to me, but to themselves.

I am expected to take pills to solve the problem...the problem was never ever me. I was an abused child trying to protect other children being abused...while lazy minded full grown adults stood by and watched, entertained. In my teen years...same thing. In my adult years, not as frequently but the incidents that did happen were serious. The 2nd to last time I raised my hand to defend myself against a bully, I could have killed her...the very last fight I had I was assaulted by my own brother for standing up for my baby brother. I embarrassed my older brother so he pinned me down so I could not fight back and hit me in the face... I was tiny back then and he is huge. I was taking martial arts training... I will say the training saved my life. He balled his fist to punch me...remember my brain injury...and I struck back with the only weapon I had...my feet...6 times in his crotch at full force. My instructors voice in my head "do not stop...do not stop" - my instructor is a 10 time national champion in taekwondo...and he said this on drills...if we stopped in fatigue, we were punished with more gruelling exercises.

People seriously need to stop being vile jerks to "get off" ... and others should never be joining in to slay the victim(s). Someone like me might be standing in the crowd observing.

You never worry about the victim...worry about the person with the big heart who is slightly psycho and physically tougher than average standing behind the victim, weeping for the victim and rapidly growing seething explosive hatred for the abuser. I am that person.

...will my abusers be able to navigate the absolute repeated loss and rebuild cycle over years as a disabled person as well as I have? I have doubt. They will never be the best of me. They can't even be the best of themselves. This is what it takes...every drop of the best you are right until you are dead.

Life lesson...it is so easy to mistake weakness for strength. Both will grow with numbers... I stay away from packs and herd mentality.

I will stay alone and stay me, with all of my strengths and weaknesses owned and mine. I learned from amazing people, but I do not get close anymore to anyone because I am poisoned, and there is no healing that. There is no going back.

I isolate as often as possible...self-quarantine...and I share and interact with people from a calculated distance always. If I become stressed, I withdraw completely. If I can't, I exhibit increasing aggression and anxiety that perpetuates in severity...if I still can't disconnect, I viciously drive the people around me away like a cornered animal. Then I feel horrible...but so deeply relieved...and I rest and isolate for months at times.
People are demanding, and I generally don't like demanding people... especially when they become recklessly needy.

I have a lot to give, but I have to be so careful to discern exactly what that constitutes when I am giving. Am I giving the best of me...or the poison?

[3piggles]

Unfortunately, our social systems have no place for those who don't fit the norm, yet those who oversee it manage to find ways to completely turn a blind eye to what's really happening, while refusing to accept the obvious in other situations You're right that once in the social assistance system, you're rated as a lesser being, just as once being in the mental health system or the criminal justice system

Our society runs on tax money, and taxpayers want to see results. The results can be police cases closed, even if not closed correctly; criminals incarcerated, even if not the right ones; people who have needed or received mental health benefits, even if only to say the doctors put those people on meds, and those people are cured. I have no idea how to change that. As long as tax money is used, I think our social assistance programs will continue as they always have, plugging away, not caring if the right people get the right help, and justifying it be the number of people processed

[gremlin40]

Funny thing about tax money...

Social Assistance is paired beside health care as the 3 to 5 top GDP in Canada.
It is ALWAYS in the top 5 since I began studying statistics back in 2012.

Do you know what GDP is? It is GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT...or rather PROFIT ...that is, the income generated by a product or service.

How do you make so much money from social Assistance if you are giving money away...and why is it directly par in "gross domestic profit" with healthcare always?

Dependants on the system are not a drain on the economy at all. As it turns out, we are worth more money than most other economic sectors comprised by the working class.

www.statista.com/statistics/594293/gross-domestic-product-of-canada-by-industry-monthly/

How does the government use the disabled and poor to make them so much money??? You will never be mentally prepared to handle the answer ... pharmaceutical drug kickbacks and deemed consent organ donation profits are a good place to start...hence the pairing of profit with healthcare.

An unattached healthy person is gas-lighted...forced on pills...forced to become mentally ill...dies prematurely from the onslaught of abuses and blatant unmitigated rape of their person...chemical interference enforced by threats and intimidation of arbitrary incarceration speed up the decline of health drastically and within 6 months this healthy person is obese and showing severe rejection symptoms to the drugs "medication"...so the doctor changes it to another of the same family of drugs to placate the legal requirements of liability management for malpractice...when the patient is finally dead from the complications, their organs are still viable mostly. Most disabled persons do not live long because of health complications...now you see where they originate primarily?

Do you know how much your organs are worth?

fortune.com/2017/09/14/organ-transplant-cost/

The value goes down with age...wear and tear. How many young people do you see...below the age of 30...hooked on drugs and dying, and being given more drugs to allegedly "get clean"? The drug that most addicts are given is a controlled synthetic version of what is killing them.

For those who are not addicts, the same poison control tactics are used...same pills...same horrific end results...premature death while leaving most of the organs intact.

Poison...control.

What a revealing phrase.




Remember...donated organs are free from the donor. For the doctors and authorities transporting and handling them, it is all huge free money.

And the recipient pays. It isn't poor people getting these organs... we're the ones giving them...whether we give unequivocal informed consent or not.

There is no organ opt out option in BC. If you do not say no, deemed consent legislation answers for you as an automatic yes.

In BC we are not permitted to say no unless a lawyer does it for us. BC Transplant informed me that they have no system in place to process the letter I sent them to refuse organ donation upon my death.

Then there is low income housing profits...and community services donation.

Look up your local community service public financial report...and see how much free money was given to them by the public. It will be in the millions. Chilliwack BC was over 4 million in donations alone when I last checked a year or so ago, not including BC government subsidies.

As for low income housing... I paid 375 a month...BC Housing paid the rest...900 dollars total for a crap motel conversion bachelor suite without a standard fridge or stove...same thing at the place that followed. The system paid 525 dollars...got it right back again every month because they are paying themselves...plus my 375 back to them...and they gained the ability to control me through threatening me with eviction and homelessness if I did not see the psychiatrist THEY PICKED FOR ME to meet. When I said no, I was red flagged by that psychiatrist to RCMP. I called RCMP for help a bit of time later and was arbitrarily detained for telling the cop to do his job... Constable Wilson said "oh yeah?" And dragged me off to psychiatric. The second that psychiatrist saw me he smiled and said "I knew they would bring you in eventually."

What a scam...what a friggin set up con artist rape game.

[shades]

Jan 22, 2020 23:58:11 GMT gremlin40 said:

Do you know what GDP is? It is GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT...or rather PROFIT ...that is, the income generated by a product or service.

I'm sorry but GDP is not the same as profit.

GDP is the total monetary or market value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country's borders in a specific time, usually annually.

Profit is the difference between the amount earned and the amount spent in buying, operating, or producing something.

[gremlin40]

I like your simple answer Shades, but anything with the government is never simple.

But simple is a great place to begin when trying to understand complicated concepts...K...The simple definition of GDP:


"The Gross Domestic Product measures the value of economic activity within a country. Strictly defined, GDP is the sum of the market values, or prices, of all final goods and services produced in an economy during a period of time."

In accounting, assets are cash, and any product or service that can be converted to cash...fluid assets, etc. It's all viewed as "gross worth".

K...so to understand you need to first ask how the government knows this...they know by data reporting...

Where does the data come from...quarterly financial and inventory reports from industry operators. These reports disclose what has sold, what what is manufactured to be sold, and what is destroyed.

The operative word being "final" ... immediate expenditure is not considered relevant in these values... industry operators have already paid these operations costs to make that money or product that will become money received, and the GDP values are what is left over AFTER PRODUCTION COSTS...because the public has already paid for the cost as every dollar was being made in REAL TIME. The GDP values are GROSS TOTAL INCOME after expenses ...PROFIT is whatever is left over after balancing expenditure. The products and income that comprise the GDP values reported are already paid for...by us before the numbers are ever reported. It is not income at this point...IT IS PROFIT.

The GDP is pure "profit" value.

The government does not budget paycheck to paycheck like we do...vital difference to understand. They budget last year's income to pay for this year's income. Or rather, they budget the gross domestic profit generated by our "collective income and assets values" to pay for the needs of the public as a whole, on top of the flagrantly expensive wants and needs of the government itself as well.

The GDP numbers generated are the absolute value for that time period reported - profit received after expenses paid by the budget and by industry operators.

Spending is cost and Loss in financials, not "value gained"...otherwise known as "capital gain".

The GDP value is the monetary reporting of any money received in a fiscal period for that product or service - Hence the word GROSS, as used in accounting terms. Remember the word "domestic" though. The government is not status classified as domestic...we citizens are. They only are required to report to us what is deemed to be "collectively ours"...meaning, shared by the government and citizens.
The GDP values are essentially a gross profit report to the public. If you want government expenditures, those are broken down in detail in government reports and available to the public as well. These expenditures appear publically as profits under the services sectors they are paid into...the government does not spend money and it is "lost" ...it comes right back to the government through us, the public, usually in higher form (profit).
Profit is the difference between the amount earned and the amount spent in buying, operating, or producing something.
Remember...every product and service provided to the public is provided by the public and paid for in REAL TIME. The government is a business manager...the services they provide are asset management. They do not "produce" for the public...they "manage" the public. The public is responsible for production, not the government.

Accounting "carries forward" over more than just the time period being currently reported...hence the need for audits intermittently to ensure the values stay "real".

On a government level all money is essentially purely profit...never fundamentally at expense. It always pays itself to every end.

Hence why the GDP does not report capital gains or losses.

"The sale or exchange transaction, itself, does not increase the owner's wealth nor does it amount to an in-flow of income. Taxing capital gains is akin to property taxation of one's assets and wealth. Indeed, capital gains are not considered to be income by economists, who exclude them from their computations of GDP."


Government generated income has no designated individual owner so is excluded from having to report increased wealth...because the wealth increase can not be taxed. Additionally, it is not automatically deemed to be "community" property to be shared with the public. If we did not produce the profit or income, or pay for it to be produced directly, the government is not obligated to give it to us or use it for us or tell us about it. What's Ceasar's is Ceasar's in Roman law.
Oooo...but let me catch myself as I post this...we individuals of the public produced the money and product that the government made capital gains from right?
Well here's where international law applies in terms of foreign trade and corporate protection...have fun learning to navigate the laws on this one and figuring out how they co-tie with the individualized protections of the common laws of the participating countries in trade themselves...the fact is that we citizens have already paid the capital gains on the products when we report capital gains, and higher law does not recognize corporations as individuals. There is no need for the government to report capital gains because the public has already done all the accounting, filing, paperwork, and reporting for the asset management...the government or interchangeably the "head asset manager" (Revenue Canada ir IRS) checks it to make sure it checks out and collect what is owed.
Still, it means that the GDP is only reflecting some of the money received...but certainly not all of it.

Always remember...the government is not making the product. They are not storing the product. They are not shipping the product. They never physically are in contact with the actual product...Industry operators are. That is you. Me. This is anyone who reports their PROFIT or GAIN to be reduced by taxation. There is no "real capital loss" or "real capital gain" happening with the government itself...the government is a system that reports domestic and some foreign investment income to the public, but the government never loses or gains anything.
It is not an individual and is therefore exempt from gain, loss and taxation. Now you get why "BAILOUTS" are permitted as in corporations.

The government is what is called "legal fiction"...it has no singular identity and is making pure PROFIT always...reporting only part of it's fiscal financial transaction records because it (as an asset management system) and those designated as agents-acting-on-behalf are excluded for not being classed as a "wealth owner" or "individual" unless they act in a manner that breaches office... evidenced "corporate" misconduct" that breaches public interest is civilly or criminally litigatable in most cases..
The government receives the current years income (GDP) after we "the public industry operators" have already paid the expense to generate the product and revenue from the product in the form of operating and production costs...hence GROSS DOMESTIC PROFIT.

If a surplus is reported this is not the same as reporting capital gains...it just means the public was overtaxed and the government is going to keep it. It doesn't account for in-flow income generated by the government in the form of GOVERNMENT INDIVIDUALS (which do not have to disclose as long as it stays exempted under the jurisdiction of the government).

Try thinking of it from the perspective of the government system: The government is the income generating and management force responsible for stabilizing and maintaining the expenses and functions of a sustainable society and its citizens. Government must come first. Well, the system is only as weak or strong as it's collective members. I actually like our system... it's better than a Rubik's cube. I hate people who cheat it, especially when its agents acting on behalf of the system who are doing it.

When government agents on every level corrupt the government system by frauding it, the government gets the blame...the faceless system...a system that has proven it works well when it is upheld with integrity.

GDP values reflect a lot more than just economic worth at face value.

[gremlin40]

Nominal GDP is the measure of the annual production of goods or services at the current price whereas Real GDP is the measure of the annual production of goods or services calculated at actual price without considering the effect of Inflation and hence Nominal Gross Domestic Product is considered a more apt measure of GDP.

That means GDP is a price tag about an economy’s total market value during a particular period.

GDP = C + G + I + NX

Here, “C” stands for consumers’ spending during a particular period.
“G” stands for the government’s spending.
“I” stands for businesses’ capital spending.
“NX” stands for “net exports” which can be further described as “exports – imports”.
So remember...the value reported is actual asset value...cash and/or fluid assets... Calculated from the form of SPENDING... but keep in mind that every coin and dollar in the country is the property of the federal government...so the value of spending is equally interchangeable with income or asset value resulting in profit value assertions that allow the government to use the GDP values to predict future market rates and even periodic rise and fall of demand...it gets even more deep with amortization, etc.


www.wallstreetmojo.com/nominal-gdp-vs-real-gdp/ is a really good site to explain how GDP works and what it means.



Anyways, my whole point at the start of this conversation was that social assistance is one of the top 5 most stable PRODUCING AND PROFITABLE industries in Canada, not a drain on the economy. I used my personal lived experience as a person who has lived almost 40 years in poverty to help explain how this is possible.

As for the deemed consent legislation, it is unconstitutional and not supposed to be legally permitted in Canada. Prima facie, using deemed (assumed) consent to obtain consent or agreement from a participant without unequivocally informing the participant to obtain "lawfully-obtained consent" constitutes FRAUD - specifically if the consent is deemed so as to "gain advantage".

Fraud is in contravention to all federal statutes, including but not limited to The Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, and The Criminal Code. But government is not an individual...this is where the need for international governance and interventions becomes surely needed...because the government will never find themselves guilty of committing crimes against the public. The First Nations people were brutalized for over 100 years before receiving restitution for the crimes committed against them by the government...they are a "class" of people who were segregated and viciously abused and killed because if race and creed.

Persons in poverty and with disabilities are a segregated"class" also...and we are being mistreated as badly as the First Nations were...the mistreatment is identical and has been going on as long or longer.

We are being systematically sterilized through use of medications that often cause infertility or birth defects, our children are being taken away especially if disabilities are present, we are being slandered through the use of words like incompetent, burden, dependant...the physical and mental abuses in psychiatric facilities is horrific and essentially unmitigated.

To top it all off, based on a report made in December 2019, Canada plans on raising the low-income tax level...while they preach to the public that they are "investing 22 billion" to reduce poverty. Raising the low-income tax level is going to wipe out that 22 billion dollar "investment" and bring a much more significant increase to the "profit" ...or social assistance industry category of the GDP...and more people will be poor than ever.

The GDP will reflect government spending, but they get every dime of it back which is not a loss...plus they will get more money back from the poor through the real estate sector as we pay higher rents, higher costs for food, clothing, etc.

And then there is the significant tax increase revenue for the poor when the low income tax bracket is raised... Stats and says 9.5% of Canadians live poor as of 2017...and yet 22% of Canadians live with disabilities, "Among those aged 25 to 64 years, persons with disabilities were less likely to be employed (59%) than those without disabilities (80%)." - the claim by the Canadian government that canadiand living in poverty is only 9.5% natiionally seems extremely false.

I would have to go into provincial breakdowns of poverty percentages to really know better, and compare government statistics with municipal statistics, etc....a huge evidence hunting project. Bah...I have so much better and more enjoyable things to do with what remains of my life than advocate for a hopeless cause. I will be dead soon, I figure a few years at most.
I am not going to waste my time.

My abusers kids can clean up the human rights and economic hell-mess when they get older, lol. Perfect Karma. They won't be smart enough or good enough to get the job done...because good brains aren't what get you into Harvard or the other "ellite schools" anymore lol.

The First Nations had lawyers to help them get on to more solid footing with the government and gain restitution/remedy for damages, loss of life, and suffering... persons living in poverty need expert forensic accountants partnered with lawyers to get this ongoing mess sorted out properly. What the government is doing to us and the rest of the public is absolutely Fraud.

www.nationalobserver.com/2019/12/23/news/statistics-canada-changes-could-soon-bump-poverty-rate

[gremlin40]

Oh...ummm...and still loving the Diatomaceous earth lol.

🙄🙄🙄

Gotta pull this thread back on topic 🤯🥴

[3piggles]

Lol, I think the diatomaceous earth is worth a thread of its own

[gremlin40]

☺️

I had to give Herbie an emergency bath when I got home from work last night. Felix pulled his medical sweater off...lil gremlin lol.

I knew something was up because he was acting guilty...and then I saw it and was like FELIX WTF! Lol, I held up the sweater and Felix just dropped his head and kept blinking slowly and repeatedly hahaha.

I really wish I could post videos of what he does when he knows he's in dukes lol. It's hilarious.

Anyhow, I think the eggs hatched under Herbie skin finally - the timing is about right...there were two spots starting to raise in bumpy clumps at the follicles of Herbies fur and I knew... they're coming. They hatch, surface as larvae, feed, mature to fertility and breed, and then burrow into the follicles and lay the next batch of eggs.
The trick is to nail the larvae as soon as they come up to feed...before they get old enough to breed, which is only a matter of days.

Well Herbie ended up with a small but ugly sore on his middle back...and the nasty colony spot on his bum, above his lil tail (well, spinal portrusion, but I call it their tail...it goes straight out when they're purring and extra happy lol) fell out also. So I knew the larvae was out and trying to feed...both spots shed the egg clumps in the same day. You can literally see the glue and mites on the root of the glued together clump of hair that is lost...😠

So I bathed Herbie in Nizoral, got as much of the black ointment off as I could... it's thick so his fur was a bit hard to dry because the beeswax base is a bit sticky and thick... black ointment is a very excellent antifungal and infection fighting product...it is known as a ""drawing ointment" and is even cited as being powerful enough to draw infection out of cysts and has been used well with skin cancer, psoriasis, and exzema. I have seen it wipe out serious infection from a large wound where the bone was exposed untreated for 3 days...my ex...a dirt biking wound...he tried to hide it from me and I smelled it cause it stank so bad. The infection was so green and his inner flesh looked almost grey. I made him put the ointment directly into the wound to the bone because, for naturopaths, I knew it to be safe to do so - he didn't want to go to the hospital because he had no medical coverage...I got mad and told him if he lost his leg I would dump him lol. I told him the hospital can not give him stitches with that much infection going on...he did as he was told.

Next day - not one word of a lie - the infection was gone and the flesh was beautifully pink...off to the hospital...136 stitches inside and out. Eeesh.

Anyhiw, so Herbie did really well but got too itchy under the drier and really freaked out a bit, which is not normal... especially if I tried to dry near these 2 particular hot spots... I got scared that the larvae might be trying to burrow back down while Herbie was defenseless without the powder, and so I got him dry but his fur felt slightly slick and greasy from the ointment residue...which turned out to be absolutely awesome.

The diatomaceous earth powder had tac to stick to...it stuck beautifully to his hot spots, etc...every bit of his fur. Very little flew off and blasted me in the face this time when he shook his fur lol.

My lil guys are like Pig Pen on Charlie Brown when they shake their fur after getting powdered up.

So... he's doing awesome. He was really trying to attack the sore on his back but I stopped him...put the powder on it...it draws out infection and kills the mites...and now Herbies really doing good. 😊

The diatomaceous earth is dehydrating, so I suspect that it will absorb some of the ointment residue, but it appears to be staying dry and working well.

Diatomaceous earth must be dry to work as a mechanical insecticide...if it gets wet it won't work until it's dry again. Herbie seems very comfortable...we snuggled for an hour when I got home from work. 🥰

I'm finally starting to see a noticeable reduction in the volume of mite bodies... I think we might be getting to the tail end of the staggered egg hatching cycles, if you understand what I mean?

The eggs were not all laid at once...and the eggs can stay unhatched for a bit if conditions are not favorable for them to hatch...so they hatch...and hatch...and hatch...and the guinea pig never seems to be getting less itchy because the batches keep hatching and causing discomfort to the colony area and rapidly spreading hair loss...the Trixacarus caviae (sarcoptic mange mite)...the deadly mite...can even go dormant if frozen, so freezing it won't kill it. They don't just burrow down the hair follicle, they create cross burrows, like ants do. No wonder they are so friggin itchy.

This type of mite is tough as they come, but baby Herbie is way tougher lol. He's such a lil trooper 🥰🥰🥰

[gremlin40]

I'm not just studying the diatomaceous earth... I'm studying the mite I'm trying to kill as well, lol.

Once you truly know and understand the enemy, they're done. Game over.

[3piggles]

I'd have trouble remembering it all. That's an incredible amount of information, and while we always encourage people to take their pigs to a vet. I realize not everyone can afford a vet, so affordable options help.

Peter Gurney wrote a whole series of books on guinra pig behavior, and the use of OTC products to treat a whole slew of ailments.

[gremlin40]

I will definitely look him up. It's strange - I studied Guinea Pigs years ago when I had my first ones and some things have changed, such as diet recommendations. I used to spend 30 bucks a week on veggies but now hay is the primary recommended food source...so I am digging deeper to find out what guinea pigs actually eat in the wild... I know it's definitely not hay.

In a sales and marketing dominated society, we have to be mindful not to be duped by salesman tactics, but rather to consider what we actually need for ourselves.

I am definitely interested in the book that man wrote though.

[3piggles]

I did a quick check, and Amazon has his books. Remember, he's not a vet. He's someone who studied guinea pigs, lived with guinea pigs, watched, listened, etc., for a really long time. He also worked with Vedra Stanley Spatcher, who is a rodontologist. Spatcher created and runs the Cambridge Cavy Trust, which is a wealth of guinea pig information, if you can get through to it. At least from the US, I can't. You might be able to from Canada. Check this link Cambridge Cavy Trust

I know the trust is still active, because a friend of mine keeps getting mail meant for them

I will stress that Peter Gurney did not advise people to avoid vets or rodontologist, but to make sure they got a good one. That can be really difficult, as I live in a state with no good guinea pig vets.

[gremlin40]

Oh I hear you on that - there is only one vet that deals with guinea pigs and I have to travel 4 cities over to get to him...no idea if he is actually any good.

I will definitely check out these resources you've provided. I'm absolutely willing to see what he has to say about what he's learned 🥰

[gremlin40]

Baby Herbie is medical sweater free as of last night. I took off his sweater to powder him up and he squeeked like always and wiggled a bit...tried to run...and then I got his sweater off I began brushing away the dead mites and flaky skin from his fur...the diatomecteus earth is a bit drying...and at first he tried to itch with his teeth as ususal...but then surprised me because he stopped and laid down on his side in a comfortable lounging position.

Usually he twitches, kicks, tries to run because he is so itchy if I touch him. Not this time. I smoothly pet him and he enjoyed and allowed it. I began searching his fur for hot spots and he didn't like that but no hot spots and his bald patches are all filling in beautifully.

I decided to give him a chance. I am checking him every day...if I see bite wound, the sweater is back on but so far so good. 👍

[gremlin40]

Baby Herbie is so grown now, btw. He is slightly bigger than Felix now even though he is younger...they were so tiny when I got them in December.