The Kitchen Cabinet Physician
Asked my brother about a health concern that I was worried about so he went to his iPhone, googled the concern, and immediately found an answer on WebMD.
Oh, wait, that’s not my brother.
My brother is stuck in the nineteen-seventies. He is not stuck by lack of intelligence, nor is he stuck by ignorance or emotion.
No, my brother is stuck by technology.
He does have a cell phone, but it is a small flip phone with no screen and just a number display.
If possible, my brother would have a hand-held crank cell phone with a full size keyboard pinned to the wall of his kitchen.
However, even without technology he is not without his resources. You see, my brother has his own type of internet.
His Internet?
His kitchen cabinets is his internet when it comes to health concers.
So let’s go back to my question and see how it was resolved by my brother’s internet.
Asked my brother about a health issue I was worried about.
“Follow me,” he said and I proceeded to follow him into the kitchen.
Instead of scrolling through websites, he scrolled through the back of the doors of his kitchen cabinets.
One by one he opened each door, looked at the composition pages filled with handwritten notes taped to the back, then moved on to the next until he found the one to answer my question.
What my question was is irrelevant, but how my brother found the answer is not.
Most people look up their health issue questions on Google, then do whatever the internet tells them.
Regarding that method, let me ask you a question?
Who hasn’t had a random pain somewhere in their body, looked up the symptoms on the internet, and determined that is was terminal and would be dead in six months?
I know I have (and yet I’m still here).
What my brother did to build his internet may seem unconventional nowadays, but it worked for hundred of years before the real internet was invented.
He read books.
Imagine that.
Over the course of years my brother, whenever a health issue arose, he would read through reference books and gather as much information on a given topic. Instead of blindly trusting whatever the internet regurgitated through the screen, he gathered, collected, and wrote down the best way to treat an issue.
Turns out, he’s not the only one.
Apparently, if you go into my sister’s kitchen cabinets, she has similar pages taped those doors. Maybe not as extensive as my brother’s, but its there.
What do I see when I open my cabinet doors?
A mixed-matched set of jelly jar character glasses from the nineties.
Here is a sample of topics my brother’s cabinet internet covers:
Pneumonia
Plaque reducers
Cancer reducers
Cholesterol
Brain boosting supplements
Reduce heart problems
That’s just a sample, there are many additional topics he covers. So, if you have any type of medical or health questions just call my brother…
...he’s in the kitchen.
Author’s Note: Alternative title I almost used for this post was ‘Physician Heal Thy Shelf’ but cooler heads prevailed.
