Pondering the Imponderables

Since there is not much to talk abou for me in my future I must dwell on the past. I have many things that are unexplained.: Many things that I must wonder about, and ponder.  My Grandmother was a very wise woman and was very quick to speak her mind. "Speak up!" She would urge us as we sat around the dining room table. She was quick to let her feelings be heard but she was willing to listen to your side. When one of my children was diagnosed as having an alergy to milk, she at first phoo phooed the idea but she did not drop it and move on, she wanted dialogue with all of us to get to the bottom of it. She questioned why one member of the family could be allergic while none of the others were.She had never heard the word "allergy". What did it mean, how did it come aboout? We finally did come to some agreement about the word. We all knew that we suffered stomach discomfort when we ate certain foods. People would say that certain foods disagreed with them. Could these be allergens? We just 'stayed away 'from those foods.

We were aware of environmentally triggered allergies. We lived in Ohio where there was a lot of farm land. Every year when it was time to harvest the grains that had been planted people suffered with "hay fever." Perhaps it was termed an allergy in the medical books but the common term for it was 'hey fever'.Again, why did certain people get hey fever while others breathed the same air and nary a sneeze out of them?

    We  have to wonder if all of the radio waves flowing through the air around us cotain some thing that causes us to react to them. Before electricity was invented did we have these problems? It took quite a few years for electricity to be wide spread, and it took quite a few years for allergies to become more and more prevalent. X-rays that could see through body tissue and bones was discovered.

We can now study the brain, the heart and all other parts of the human body with sophistocated testing implements and machines. Think of the effect those machines must have on us. I've had a multitude of scans and every time I see those big machines that my body is going to be exposed to, I cannot help but wonder in what way I'll be affected.

Years ago Autism was hardly ever heard of but now it is so common. They did a study to see if the encrease in autistic kids was caused by the immunation injections that  the children were receiving and they finally agreed that the shots were not the cause. What is?

Is there still residue left from the Atomic bombs that were dropped over Hiroshima floating around in the air messing with our genes?

I guess I  must continue to ponder! Ciao