Yesterday my mother told me that she had been diagnosed with Trigeminal Neuralgia. This is a condition in which the sufferer has excruciating pain in the facial area. I read one description of it in which it is referred to as the "suicide disease".

I have read about it being linked to mercury poisoning. I have a lot of pain in my body that I believe is mercury related. Unfortunately my mother doesn't have the funds to pursue chelation therapy and at 70 she doesn't have much desire to do so even though she believes that there is something to the theory about mercury.

I fear that all her doctors will be able to do is to give her more and more drugs to suppress the pain. When it comes to treating chronic pain most physicians are worthless because of their poor training.

This makes me even more angry at The System and how little help we can get from it.