This is a tuff one. How can I pick out pics to talk about a negative discovery? No, to God be the Glory! Methinks he invented flowers and bushes for my consuming pleasure. My morning joy is such….COFFEE, Fox News, Check my texts…..blogging, is it 4:30 AM yet? When Russ is up, feed my dog, the birds, AND woodpecker…water the patio plants with the hose, use rain barrel for other garden plots and the beat goes on…..If you read yesterday’s byegonegaragesaling.com……you might have noticed that blog was #100, but today’s is #99. On purpose of course, since yesterday’s was on Dyslexia and living with it. Hard to believe that it took me a lifetime to figure out how that has touched so many points of my life.
And if you read that blog, you would remember I subscribe to 8 magazines. It is soooooooooooo vital if you want to have a life that you MUST expose your mind to what the world has to offer…to read about other’s challenges and how they overcame, to look at the pics and DREAM BIG! To learn how to eat the right stuff, what benefits Kale has to your body…… Like Dr. Oz sez….you can eat to live or you can eat to die. Information is LIFE.
Since I was in my 30’s I had a philosophy NOT to accept negative things going on in my life. And some were terrible things like the death of a little son…..but I always looked to the silver lining around that cloud. There were always reasons to walk where I did……but I chose to look AHEAD. It was told to me once, Satan knocks on the door holding a basket of snakes…smiling, and these gifts were free…would I like one? Well, of course not, and that was the attitude I have carried ever since.
Oprah’s June 2019 “O” magazine arrived. Now I NEVER in my whole life read anything about diseases because I want to keep my mind pure and clean. Why muddle it with facts of things that have no meaning in my life? BUT…..this time I read THE TROUBLE WITH LYME by Marissa Evans. I believe in 1991 I had 3 tick bites. My mother was visiting and I came down with 105 degree fever and we could not figure anything wrong with me. Shortly afterwards pain started traveling all around my body. I could follow it everyday where it was…., when it hit my right rib cage, I couldn’t move that side. It would go down thru my arm and up again and then start up the other side. It was a path of pain. I had to put my face down by the sink to apply makeup because I couldn’t lift my arms. Curling my hair was a nightmare! I started the habit of washing my hair in the kitchen sink which I still do today. As time went by, I never told anyone as I couldn’t claim that snake in that basket. Years later, it again started up and seriously grabbed my hips. I discovered glucosamine. And the beat goes on. I refuse to claim anything negative and open the door and welcome it in.
You ask, “How did that work for you?” If you read the article about what various people have gone thru with treatments and costs…..maybe I can sum it up…Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t. 28 years later I will say I hurt everywhere till I get to moving around and once or twice a day over the counter acetaminophen works very well. If no storm fronts move in, I might go a whole week and not take anything.
I just am not openly going to claim “stuff” though I assure you, “stuff” has claimed me.
