These posts begin in the context of the present. Today is March 3, 2017. I was admitted to the hospital February 9 with a high fever and severe pain in my hips and back to the point where I just wanted to die rather than continue with the level of pain. Given my history, my medications, and my rather high pain tolerance level, this is significant.
The next day, it was discovered that I had cellulitis in my left leg. Again. You see, this is the second time I have had cellulitis in that leg, the first being December 2014. Yeah, almost a year after my previous post, the one I put up in response to a friend’s comments stemming from ultra-Judaistic “Christianity”. The New Testament was necessary to complete an “imperfect” i.e. incomplete Old Testament whose purpose was to point humanity to Jesus.
Oh yes. I should mention for anyone reading this in the future for the first time, I am a Christian and have been for many years. I’m probably not nearly as mature as I should be. Or hope to be.
God created the human body. He created something so marvelous that to study it should at times evoke a sense of worship – not of the creation but the Creator.
But with sin in the world, things go wrong with the human body. Illness, disease (two different things, that), malfunction, dysfunction (again, two different things)… after a while you just get tired of it all.
I have had many many things go wrong with my body, and I’ve spent countless hours trying to puzzle them out, to make some little sense of it all.
There is a maxim in medicine they call Occam’s Razor. It means, the explanation that covers the most known facts/details about a case is the most likely true one. When you have multiple things going wrong, if there exists an explanation that covers most or all of them, it is the most likely correct one over several explanations that only cover parts but not the whole.
I’ve been hoping for and failing to find my Occam’s Razor, my explanation to fit my facts, not just mine but that of family history as well.
So now begins the sorting of information, laying out what I know piece by piece, to see what can be derived from what we know.