My great-grandfather, Jonah Fossey, emigrated from England along with his household within the Eighteen Eighties. He landed in Halifax and died on the age of 96 in Nickerson, Kansas.
Jonah’s son, William James Fossey, moved to Oklahoma Territory as a younger man. He established a grocery retailer in Buffalo, Oklahoma, and a cattle-hauling enterprise and died at 92.
James Fossey, my father, grew up in northern Oklahoma in the course of the Mud Bowl years. He joined the Military Air Corps earlier than Pearl Harbor, was captured by the Japanese, and survived the Bataan Demise March. Dad died in a VA hospital in 1999 on the age of 81.
I am 76 years previous, have two stents in my arteries, and suffered a debilitating stroke in 2022. A cyst covers all the proper lobe of my thyroid gland, so the ol’ thyroid’s acquired to go. I might be lucky to dwell so long as my father and don’t have any likelihood of dwelling into my 90s as my grandfather and great-grandfather did.
People aren’t dwelling so long as they did only a few years in the past; my household is only one instance. The U.S. spends extra on healthcare than another developed nation, but we do not dwell so long as the Europeans.
Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Well being and Human Companies. RFK Jr. is fiercely vital of our nation’s healthcare system and meals trade. Trump haters declare Kennedy is “unhinged.” Froma Harrop, a dependable shill for progressive Democrats, not too long ago printed an op-ed calling him a weirdo, an fool, and a fruitcake.
I say let’s give RFK Jr. an opportunity. We aren’t a wholesome nation. One in three American adults is prediabetic, and 40 p.c are overweight. We gotta do higher; we gotta dwell higher.
Talking of fruitcakes. I ate quite a lot of fruitcakes as a child throughout my household’s bleak Christmas celebrations. Is that why a cyst is taking up my thyroid gland?
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| RFK Jr. Picture credit score: Politico. |
