[Vision2020] Beyond Crackpottery

[Rosemary Huskey]

Hi Lee and Nate,

Thanks for the offer.  Actually, for the sake of truth, justice and the
American Way would you considering running it under the column heading
"Cowgirling Up"?  What I wrote - drawing largely from text on Ms. Hoger's
websites - is not limited to my perspective but more an exposure of a very
curious worldview from someone offering "medical" - I use the term very
loosely - services. 

I could certainly cut some of the fluffy stuff - for example, I would not
include the humiliating ya da ya da ya da crap she wrote for all the world
to see about her little boy.  In my opinion, grisly doesn't begin to cover
it. It doesn't take my level of maternal experience to know that he will so
not be thanking her in eight or ten years if she is silly enough to leave it
on-line.

Best, 
Rose

PS  I am loath to have photos taken (and no, I don't think the camera can
capture my spirit), but to tell the truth, I would prefer using a photo of
my great grand dog Susan.  She is a cunning little terrier with a feisty
temperament, and somehow the notion of me hiding behind the image of a
female dog is just too funny to pass up.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Rozen [mailto:lrozen at dnews.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 12:43 To: Rosemary Huskey
Cc: 'Nathan Alford'; vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: Beyond Crackpottery

  Rose,

Thanks for your email. We would consider running it as a HER VIEW, but at
970 words it exceeds our 650 word limit. If you would cut it to 650 words
and include a photo of yourself, we will run it by the editorial board to
schedule it for publication.

Lee Rozen
Managing Dimwit, Moscow-Pullman Daily News
409 S. Jackson St., Moscow, ID 83843
Off: (208) 882-5561 ext. 209
Cell: (208) 669-1590
lrozen at dnews.com


On 6/12/2012 8:45 AM, Rosemary Huskey wrote:
>
> On the whole, I support eccentricity - after all, I am not unaware of 
> my own tendency to occasionally stop by the kingdom of Quirky.
> Nonetheless when idiosyncrasy includes a genuine risk to others, it 
> crosses the line from harmlessly peculiar to potentially dangerous.
> What jackassery prompted the Daily News editorial board through its 
> designated spokesperson Murf Racquet to address obstetric protocols at 
> local hospitals? It's not too late to share with your readers the 
> professional credentials held by Daily News editorial board members 
> which provided you with even a scintilla of the background and 
> training necessary to evaluate the risks connected to VBAC deliveries.
> And what in our troubled world with the genuinely serious issues of 
> political upheaval , economic crisis and environmental degradation 
> suggests to you that VBACs are worthy of your editorial attention?
>
> It was a dim-witted decision to put your two cents into a VBAC debate 
> in the first place. To follow it up by giving space to a VBAC advocate 
> who advertises the following special 'gifts" and powers tells me more 
> about the decision making ability of the Daily News than it does about 
> the mystical Ms. Hoger.
>
> 12/08/2011
>
> "I have identified with the Crow as a bird itself for its intense 
> beauty, magic and intelligence and as the representation of the link 
> between death and life, the transition, the veil, whatever you want to 
> call it, it is the space in-between. I've lived in that space to a 
> substantial degree myself and it is an interesting and sometimes 
> difficult place.
>
> My youngest son, [*I removed his name to protect his privacy although 
> his own mother clearly didn't give a hoot*], was very much a girl and 
> very much a different entity up until three weeks prior to birth. We 
> never had an ultrasound, there was never a measurement, and of course, 
> to most people, my statement will sound ludicrous. "He was obviously 
> not a girl at anytime!" (Other than the fact that we all start as 
> girls, but that is yet another story). Anyway, we had quite a series 
> of events occur right at the end of pregnancy and there was a time 
> (although I never worried that he would not be ok) where I had no 
> idea, suddenly, who he/she/it was.
>
> There is the Heisenberg principle
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenberg_uncertainty_principle> which 
> essentially identifies the fact that we can only be so certain about 
> physical properties at any given time and the closer we interact with 
> the system we are studying, the more change we bring to the very 
> nature of that very system. In a very simplified manner, you can take 
> this also to mean that when we nail down the sex of a fetus in an 
> ultrasound, the parameters become that much harder to change. Ie. If 
> you measure it as a boy, it will most likely be a boy. But anyway, we 
> never measured the baby or nailed him down into any kind of matter and 
> once huge life changes took place, there was this shift. And then, 
> finally, when everything else fell into place, I got the feeling he 
> was going to be a boy and that he was finally going to be born. And 
> there 'he' was."
>
> One Child in Either World
> <http://www.umacenter.com/2/post/2011/12/one-child-in-either-world.htm
> l>
>
> Among the many "products" she sells I found (and gagged over):
>
> "Replenish and restore hormonal balance with Placenta Encapsulation. 
> Using either a raw foods method or the Chinese Methodology of steaming 
> the placenta first, the placenta is then cut and dried at temperatures 
> which preserve the nutrient and energetic values of this amazing organ 
> which provides the perfect balance specific to YOU.
> ~ Minimize post-partum blues
> ~ Restore vitality
> ~ Provide plentiful antibodies for you and your child The dried 
> placenta is ground and placed in capsules for ease of consumption. 
> Umbilical cord is also saved and allowed to shape in its natural way 
> during drying. A tincture will be made for long-term use (menopause, 
> etc.)*$250 ~ includes encapsulation, tincture, pick-up & delivery, and 
> cord drying"*
>
> http://www.crowmedicine.net/products.html
>
>
> Her ability to "heal" includes:
>
> *Distance Sessions 
> <http://www.crowmedicine.net/distance-sessions.html>*
>
> "Many of the same concerns we deal with in the office can also be 
> discussed and worked with from a distance (by phone or email) using 
> elements of Reiki and Clairvoyance or Shamanic Journeying. It is not 
> necessary that we have met in advance or that you have been seen in 
> the office to receive distant work. There are quite a few different 
> ways to describe the techniques or processes, but I feel we are simply 
> tapping into the collective shared consciousness to access details 
> that are parts of the whole.
>
> /Fees are the same as for in-office sessions:/
> /$90 for your initial 90 minute session/
> /$75 for 1 hour follow up sessions thereafter. / /Payments online 
> through PayPal."/
>
>
>     And her credentials, if you had any interest in verifying her
>     claims related to obstetric practice include:
>
>
>     "I have decided to move away from being a doula and am honoring
>     the many past lives of midwifery and herbal training I have had as
>     a mode of channeling that knowledge and wisdom into other sources:
>     the shamanic side of my work, the online education, and my
>     writing. Crow Medicine is and has been many things over the years,
>     but first and foremost, it is how I live and walk through this
>     world; shifting and changing and living on the border of transitions."
>     Shifting 
> <http://www.crowmedicine.net/3/post/2012/01/shifting.html>
>
> Does the DN have any responsibility to readers when it comes to 
> publishing credentials of advocates for a particular point of view?
> Was this whole pile of baloney an attempt to stir up discussion and 
> increase circulation? Do you think that these kinds of editorial 
> decisions increase your credibility?
>
> Shaking my head - which frankly was exploding when I researched this 
> woman's philosophy - and deeply grateful that placenta is not on my 
> lunch menu.
>
> Rose Huskey
>