Advice for a cure

This morning I was at UCSF hospital just being support person for a friend who was having outpatient surgery. I was in two waiting rooms with TVs that didn't turn off with TV-B-Gone, alas! My friend was fine and I saw her off into her housemate's car to go back to Oakland.

On the way home my cab driver was very sweet. He asked me if he could tell me herbal medicine cure for my condition. I said yes and took out my notebook to write it down, just because I was feeling super mellow. (Usually I say something a bit cutting or reject people's "cures" politely but firmly....)

First, catch pigeon. Someone kills the pigeon for you. Put one onion in a pot. One, maybe two, spoonful olive oil. And water. Boil it. A long time. The meat gets soft, very soft. You can eat as much as you want, if you are not vegetarian, of pigeon. I love it. There is no limit! God put everything here for a reason, but we are too stupid to know it for one thousand years. This will help you, I guarantee it. I don't know to what level, but I pray to god it will be 100 percent level.

This is the best herbal medicine cure advice I've heard in 20 years of wheelchair use! I nearly fell over when he started with "First, catch pigeon" and felt very happy my pen and notebook were already out. Hahahaha, omg. He was genuinely sweet, and then explained to me about his diabetes numbers and how chemicals were bad, and that in Afghanistan there is a tiny brown seed very helpful for diabetes, which he takes and is going to tell some people in Marin all about for their diabetes research lab.

Overheard on the bus

From my notebook. Sometimes I jot things down on the bus and the other day I was listening to two women talk in Spanish while trying not to look like I understood. They had been discussing me, my wheelchair, and then their friend who had the same boots and I was proud that I understood this sentence, so I jotted it down. "Ella se camina poquito, poquito, en las botas, al lado, como cangrejo." Describes me fairly well, on the stairs anyway.