Monday, February 09, 2009

Waking up to Snow

This morning I could not figure out why my sister was asking if I could come hangout with my nephew. I asked her about his school and all she said was the school is closed. To my spaced out - just woke up brain this made no sense. Of course as soon as I got out of bed and looked out the window I realized why his school had been closed. Last night it snowed! It snowed in the middle of February. It snowed after a week of semi warm weather that allowed hours of walks last week. SNOW?

It was not so bad because the sun ended up coming out to play but it was still a little colder than I like. I am now sitting in my bedroom with a heating pad wrapped around my back. I am still having issues with body temperature and the winter. My back is so fragile now it can not get cold or it will freeze up and cause walking to become almost impossible.

The next area of my cleaning plan is internal. I have cleaned my studio, my bedroom and now I must turn inwards. I have started to increase my fruits, veggies and vitamins in my daily living. I am drinking more than enough water and I have started to detox off my pain medication. I feel like I am starting to gain some control back over my body. Which after a year of my body almost completely breaking down, it is nice to have my health coming back. It was a hard weekend while I tried to get over the detox hump left by the pain medication I have been taking for almost a year. I think I took 10 baths while turning the heat up as high as I could. I thought it would help to sweat out the toxins. I ate apples, bananas and avocados hoping these would help the horrible flu like feeling I had all weekend. I had a "why me" pity party! For the first time since I got sick, I was depressed over it. I usually can get my mind out of the gutter when it comes to my illness but this weekend I was stuck. I thought of all the changes and all the time I have missed while I have been healing. I read blogs of ladies that work all the time on their companies and I get jealous. I felt like I was stuck in a bog. It was a terrible weekend. But finally, this morning I woke up and feel so much better. I think I am finally getting the junk out of my system. I have turned a corner and I am very thankful for this. Detoxing off medications is very hard on the body and mind. I hope to never experience this kind of feeling again.

So hopefully the warm weather will return and I will keep drinking my new favorite smoothies while cleaning out my system and becoming pain free!

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