Why Open Heart Shocks People
My open-heart surgery shocked me. Many are startled by the workings of the heart, for its secrets are hidden and its trials unknown. What is seen as surgery or intervention is but a manifestation of knowledge that humbles the unaware and enlightens the seeker. MODERN INVENTIONS, MODERN ILLNESSES, AND MODERN MAN: In today’s world, new inventions emerge each day, and things once unknown now shape every life. With progress comes new afflictions, and physicians declare them persisted but undiagnosed, for in the past, such ailments lay unnamed. Yet in those simpler times, there was no plastic, no flood of synthetic poisons. Now, chemicals invade every home, i n kitchens and bathrooms, in fields and farms, absorbed by plants, by crops, and carried in the very air we breathe. Plastic drifts across oceans to distant shores, and in its most enduring form, it is called PFAS, The forever chemical that refuses to die. Even the marvels of science conceal their shadows: ...