Humpty Dumpty – what a name! Visualize for a moment what this eggy person would actually look like if they lived next door – overweight, out of shape, humped over and off balance. Well, your neighbor just fell off bedpost and the ambulance is at the door step.

We are no different; we break. Sometimes we break suddenly as in a serious accident. If we are healthy, we heal – hopefully quickly. If a few long bones are broken, a reasonable smart doc will know how to properly set them to start the proper healing. But often, (twice last week, it happened in my clinic) a 65+ lady steps off a curb or simply picks up a grandchild, and snap. A vertebrae crushes; it compresses to half its height in a moment. Gone is a half an inch or more. Often, several go at a time, and grandma is now nose to nose with her 10 year old grandchild. 

A few years ago, the treatment was a brace, and encouragement. (largely useless). Now, we have percutaneous kyphophasty, known as balloon technology. An inflatable balloon device (tamp) is inserted, the balloon inflated and a viscous cement is infused, filling the balloon and hence restoring a significant portion of the lost height.  With our modern technology (if it is available on short-term notice, and affordable), we probably could put Humpty back together. 

Except for the side glance, Principle Nine is not about technology. It is about having the proper resources, knowledge and experience to build you back up when you are down. The body, its cells, your brain are all smart, but let face it – there is nothing in you that knows how to build a gram of calcium, magnesium, zinc, manganese, or boron, all needed repair nutrients when bone density is getting marginal or when the fracture occurs.

Our body needs to take a lesson from Wal-Mart, the model for store stocking efficiency. All on smart wired interchange, legions of trucks cover the highways day and night, just waiting to stock the used up items. Our US Armed Services were so impressed with Wal-Mart’s delivery system of supplying needed items, that they copied the hovering supply technology of Wal-Mart. 

When we need repairs, and we do, we need the raw materials and the smarts. We all get old one day at a time, but the net package looks very different when supplies are back ordered and the wrong software is running.

This is what Principle #9 of the Healing Response is all about. Learn to have supply when demand necessitates it – i.e. Supply the Demand is better than Demand the Supply.

It may seem like a chicken or egg argument but it isn’t. Let’s not have our thinking be like the donkey turned backward.

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