I, like most Americans, have had lengthy discourse recently about the health care debate. Most provocative has been what I've heard from physical therapist Mitchell Yass (www.PT2therapy.com) and anesthesiologist David Sherer, author of Dr. David Sherer's Hospital Survival Guide. As David said to me the other day, "It's not a health care crisis, but a health crisis.

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On the last day of our summer vacation and hours from home, my youngest daughter developed pink eye. Hoping to stave off a major infection and limit the chances of everyone in the family catching it, I ran into a shop to see if they had chamomile tea -- a home remedy for pink eye (you just wet the teabag and hold it on the eye). They didn't have it, but the woman behind the counter directed me across the street to a health food store.

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With four children and a husband who works with children, someone in my house is usually sick. In our upstairs bathrooms, everyone has his/her own towels so that germs don't spread. But it's our downstairs “guest” bathroom that gets the most use. I used to keep a roll of paper towels there to prevent the spread of germs, but I didn't like creating all that garbage.

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