The reason many babies got jaundice, which some babies even died from, was due in large part to not having received their cord blood. Such a simple thing to do to ensure the health of a newborn baby and yet modern medical practice paid no attention to it or simply didn't care enough about the baby's welfare. This was one of those things about society that caused me to prefer living on my island separate from it.
The arrogance of belief that a group of educated somebodies knew better and had the right to dictate what should or should not happen with no concern to whatever the wishes or concerns of the individual, who was actually experiencing the event in personal perspective, was abhorrent to me. The medical field was just one of the institutions of mankind's popular practices that eroded away at the freedom of an individual to make their own decisions.
It was that fundamental cancerous mentality to be found in all human societies that had helped lead to the rise of the first Tower of Babel and then later the Code's virtual tower. The belief that a few should take over the thinking of many and decide for all the way things would be, based off of their own screwed up moral compasses justified by the excuse that the majority of society or at least those that mattered most to them would benefit and that the sacrifice of those who wouldn't was acceptable. Such was the path by which freedoms are slowly lost, until the will, endowed upon humanity by their Creator to choose any decision at all over their own fate, is taken from them and they are enslaved to the desires of another.
Although a crisis had been averted in the world thanks to the courageous efforts and sacrifices of many, history often repeats itself. And one day a force already within the world would rise to enslave those hearts of man not already committed and sealed by their Creator, into an opposition of all things God, by virtue of being the opposite of God, the two being diametrically opposed.
Thankfully my spirit was sealed and my destiny sure, but the problem of that anti-force was yet to come, perhaps even within my children's lifetime. Oh how I prayed not! But since the Earth was created and time had begun to be measured, time had been running out and sooner or later those things which must be would occur so that they might also be finished by the sovereignty of God.
Today however was not that time.
Today was a good day. I left off of my gloomy thoughts to focus on the miracle of life held snug and warm in my wife's arms. Little Elisha sated with a full belly and toasty from the heat of the room and our bodies was fast asleep nuzzled against my wife's chest. We had a real family now.