{"id":41563,"date":"2015-06-29T02:38:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T07:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=41563"},"modified":"2015-07-01T02:40:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T07:40:05","slug":"if-youre-going-to-refuse-medication-have-an-alternative-plan-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-youre-going-to-refuse-medication-have-an-alternative-plan-in-place\/","title":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;re going to refuse medication, have an alternative plan in place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend had a stroke and adamantly decided he&#8217;ll not take any meds as he doesn&#8217;t trust doctors. I said a prayer and wrote him, &#8220;If you&#8217;re going to do it your way, be smart &#8212; I know you are. (1) make a list of all the meds the doctors want you to take. (2) research and make a list of a natural alternative for each, whether supplementary, herbal or dietary. (3) Make a protocol list for each day: know how much of what you need to take or eat and when you need to do it. That means have a daily hourly schedule and follow it. (4) Some supplements need to be taken with water, some with fat, some with food, some without. Know which is which.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-youre-going-to-refuse-medication-have-an-alternative-plan-in-place\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=If you&#8217;re going to refuse medication, have an alternative plan in place&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-youre-going-to-refuse-medication-have-an-alternative-plan-in-place\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-youre-going-to-refuse-medication-have-an-alternative-plan-in-place\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-youre-going-to-refuse-medication-have-an-alternative-plan-in-place\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=If%20you&#8217;re%20going%20to%20refuse%20medication,%20have%20an%20alternative%20plan%20in%20place&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-youre-going-to-refuse-medication-have-an-alternative-plan-in-place\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend had a stroke and adamantly decided he&#8217;ll not take any meds as he doesn&#8217;t trust doctors. I said a prayer and wrote him, &#8220;If you&#8217;re going to do it your way, be smart &#8212; I know you are. (1) make a list of all the meds the doctors want you to take. (2) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41564,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41563\/revisions\/41564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}