I hope you never have to follow this advice, but if you end up having a hospital emergency in America, having no way to pay the bill, know that: without insurance, you should seek a public hospital where you live or near where you are.

Some hospitals let you pay according to how much you earn.

Now, if you’re not sure the hospital is public or not, look for the words “COUNTY” or “PUBLIC” in the name of the hospital.

Someone who works in ER said:

“It’s sad to see people sacrificing their health for money, but because some hospitals are closing more and more patients are going to the ER with neck pain, chronic pain, severe flu etc..”

He said: “I wish nobody had to go to these places without insurance, but maybe if some rich and influential people lose their jobs in the future, they will realize how hard a situation like this is and end up fighting for this cause and change it.”

But no matter what kind of hospital you go to, the emergency doors are always open!

Now the shortcuts that I would use to save time:

1 – Call my doctor, telling him of my emergency. He can call and tell them what kind of treatment you will need at the ER, (and request the tests in advance)… Of course, if it’s a true emergency, do not waste time looking for your doctor, call 911 quickly.

And be prepared… Each ER serves the sickest and worst situations first… Now, if they already have some information from your doctor about you, that should make everything move faster and better on your side.

2 – Always carry your insurance card with you, if you have one, and even a card with a list of all the doctors and specialists you have seen, or that you’re seeing.

3 – Make another list of all medications, vitamins and herbs (with dosages), and put it in your wallet with your documents.

4 – It’s also a good idea to have on you a card with all your medical information. This will save you from medical errors and lots of time.

A reader wrote asking how I keep my skin so healthy at my age, having lived in Texas for 13 years and walking every day under the ‘caliente’ Texan sun, that beats down on us 8 months a year…

Here is the answer:

Lots of water and this sunscreen, after many attempts, I discovered it to be of the best!

If you can’t see my badly taken photo very well, it’s the sunscreen DR.JEFFREY of Dover of the skin Cancer Foundation of the USA recommends. It’s not greasy and has even been tested by dermatologists!

My skin’s very sensitive and I’m white as paper, and of course, sometimes I forget to reapply it during the day as is necessary with the other sunguards. Ahhh, there are far fewer chemicals and it has Vitamin A, C and E. It doesn’t clog pores and it never burned my eyes when I forget, and rub them. I recommend it.

Another reader, who must stay away from salt, wanted to know, if I had a recipe for homemade Mexican seasoning.

‘Si’ I have, here it is…

1/4 cup chili powder

1 tablespoon oregano

1 tablespoon cumin

1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

Put it in a tightly closed glass.

For tacos or chili I use 2 1/2 tablespoons per pound of minced meat or ground turkey for fajitas, and 1 tablespoon per pound of beef or chicken.

It’s another name for ‘influenza’, ‘Flu’ or whatever virus is within our body, and I believe that everyone knows and understands very well what I’m talking about.

Sometimes a vaccine works, but sometimes it doesn’t…

That’s when I think that all ‘materia medica’ would be much better for humanity, if it were thrown into the sea. But as I feel sorry for that those that live down there, I shake my head… tsk, tsk, tsk … No, no no, no that isn’t the answer…

Because of my disillusionment, I became a… what would you call it…? With great humility, a researcher, always looking for natural cures, because this may be the only health plan that 45 million people have here, at the moment.

And isn’t it wiser to avoid diseases than to trust in and expect to be cured by drugs…?

Who would have guessed? Look what I found, good in the ‘war against our well-being’.

The word is: QUERCETIN.

The “anti-flu diet” consists of eating apples, blueberries, broccoli, spinach, lettuce and red onion, The last one one red onion, researcher Mark Davis, PhD, University of South Carolina says it has 4 times more quercetin, than any other legume, vegetable or fruit.

I had already loved quercetin, because I used it against urticaria in the past, and besides having a delicious taste (drops), it worked wonderfully for me, even when in 2005, during and after Hurricane Rita, which became known as the hurricane of the worst traffic jam in the history of America.

And we ‘were there’. It was horrible. Traumatic. People died of stress trying to escape from Rita. Beloved pets were released to their own fate at the sides of the freeways. An emotional catastrophe.

But Quercetin held back my stress, my tension, my post stress urticaria and I didn’t even remember to scratch. I swear.

And now that this bioflavonoid will hold back our flus, white and yellow onions will forever stay there on the the supermarket racks, because only the red onions will enter my kitchen.