{"id":7577,"date":"2021-07-21T14:56:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T14:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/?p=7577"},"modified":"2021-07-21T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T14:56:23","slug":"a-letter-to-my-waxing-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/a-letter-to-my-waxing-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"A Letter to my Waxing Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have many waxing friends. Some have spoken quietly, \u201cI got my second wax today.\u201d Some have posted smiling pictures of their face, or their hair free shoulder in a circle of flowers, happy, healthy images on Facebook and Instagram. When I see bragging, I fear they want me to join them. When I see the quiet ones, I fear some will get more than they signed up for. This dam emic is all about fear. That’s why we have fright checkers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do not fear the vid, never did. My first \u201ctwo weeks being grounded<\/em>\u201d came when I was in Arequipa, Peru. I was shocked, and afraid. Not of my transgressions, of the governments. I knew immediately that two weeks was just a taste of what was, and is, to come. Two weeks became four. Shortly afterwards, soldiers arrived from Lima. Los\u00a0Arequipe\u00f1os\u00a0were never well behaved. The bureaucrats were not amused. A few weeks later, we left for the security and safety of Canada, our home country. I never felt any immediate fear, nor fear of the vid, only fear of what the future might bring.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have followed and at the same time tried to avoid listening to the news. The stories and statistics were impossible to comprehend. They still are. Statistics can illuminate. But scientifically they are designed to produce more questions, than answers. When I see or hear any statistic, I try to figure out what’s missing?<\/em> What are we missing? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I studied the vid, looking for cures. Most people are cured, many without a diagnosis. Cures appeared in droves and were swatted down like flies. This pattern continues today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For months, more than a year, we have walked forward, blindly, in a tunnel ranging from numbness and fear to panic and hysteria. A friend quoted the title of a Pink Floyd song: Comfortably Numb. That describes perfectly how I feel and what I am seeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then the light appeared. Waxing will save us. At first it was a faint hope, gradually growing. Quickly rushed through emergency approval. The light continues to grow. I fear it may blind our friendship. That\u2019s why I write this letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am not anti-wax.\u00a0 I am not waxing-hesitant. I have been waxed many times in the past. As a traveler, I carried a wax passport, proving yellow-fever waxing, necessary to visit Brazil \u2013 although I only got as close as the middle of the river at Iguazu Falls. I am 68, at the age where I constantly need to consider a shingles wax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe strongly in the basic medical right to refuse treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n