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I made an offer on the house today.
I’m trying to convince myself I’m not sitting next to the phone waiting for a response.
My psychic powers tell me this will be an excellent weekend for mowing.
My own psychic powers tell me I’m about to post a political piece!!!
omg, ur br1llant!
I went to the Doctor this morning for this terrible anxiety I’ve developed over the past few weeks. My problems are solved but I cannot shed the anxiety. He gave me some medicine and said to take it at bedtime. I took it this morning and I am zonked! If I relax any more than I am, I’ll be dragging myself across the floor. It is nice to not have the black vision of doom hanging over my head. I will wait until bedtime tomorrow before another pill.
I hope no one drops in for a visit.
Don’t take drugs, you can beat this naturally. It’s all in the diet, check if you’re deficient on vitamins, iron, omega oils etc…
He also gave me some b12, and I take potassium. I will pick up a multivitamin. I eat very well. Lots of fresh fruit and vegetables. More fish than red meat. I haven’t been sleeping well and having heart palpatations so I was a bit worried.
Another reason why you shouldn’t take meds. Vitamins, yes, also you might want to try Acetyl L Carnitine, it’s a natural supplement for people like me (my workload is fairly heavy, and can’t sleep until the sun comes out!) it’s made with plant fiber and magnesium stearate, also from a vegetable source. I can tell you that I feel much better when I go on a course say, for a month. You can buy them from the States at wwwWholeHealthProducts.com
I’ll have Jean check on that while she is up there. She is also bring me some licorice and a digital camera. If I learn to post pix, you will see my village and pets.
When you get your camera I’ll guide you on how to post pics, the easy peasy way.
Oh no, not the black vision of doom!
Is it the flood? Money?? The world in general???
I will think positive rosy thoughts and beam them your way while I’m mowing.
The money problem is solved. The big legal problem is also solved. I just renewed my visa with no problem. Everything has worked out well. The doc said that I am reacting to being under stress for so long. When I was working as a travel agent, I would have migraines on my days off. I will be fine.
Thanks for the kind thoughts. Take care while mowing. Hope you get that phone call real soon.
Ah!
You need to be mowing, too. It’s great for stress.
I don’t think that I have ever seen a lawn mower in these parts. Or a leaf blower. Machetes are the tool of choice.
I did a little yard work this morning trimming bushes and such. I also walk several miles a day.
I hate the black vision of doom! *makes vision-go-away sign*
Sorry the system isn’t ramping back down as it should after the cause for anxiety has gone.
I began a spate of gen-yoo-wine panic attacks about 18 months ago (the whole baseless, causeless, seizure-like episode shebang), and the cure has been on my plate.
Or rather, off my plate: not sure if it was MSG and its evil cousins, or altered fats (fat, after all, is the principal component of the myelin sheath), or HFCS, or what, but only in walking away from ALL commercial food have I found any respite from the terrible attacks.
They come back when I fall off the wagon.
None of which is to say that panic and anxiety are the same thing–they’re not–or that immediate pharmaceutical intervention isn’t a good idea–I’ve been there and saved my life with that.
But the key to lasting relief probably really is in your kitchen.
Hope you’re feeling more elastic soon.
I’m curious as to what you allude to with the “pharmaceutical intervention” thinghy! It’s evocative of un certain je ne sais quoi.
Oh, only that the SSRI class drugs, while very problematic, have saved my own life by cutting into a spiraling cycle of depression.
I’ve since been able to leave them behind, I’m happy to say.
That’s all.
The doc said the people at the store were teasing me about the flood. I guess they didn’t realize how it freaked me out. I came home and moved everything to higher ground. The sky is blue and sunny. But just in case, I am prepared.
Flood? I’m sorry–is your area threateened? I’ve been terribly out of touch. Stay safe!
(And excuse my long ramble above–I wrote it and posted it before reading that you were already feeling better.)
Last September our village suffered a bad flood. I had four and a half feet of sewage in my downstairs. Thank god, I have an upstairs. I am finally getting the house fixed up and the other day, I went to the store and the owners told me a flood was coming and to hurry home. It freaked me out beyond belief. Such a cute sense of humor. I won’t shop there again.
I can certainly understand your lingering anxiety. Even as bad as FEMA is in the US, when there is a disaster, Statesiders can expect some official help. Not the case in Mexico, as you have discovered, mango - and I’m sure that it adds to your anxietious state.
Even though you get aerobic exercise daily, perhaps some more vigorous exercise - such as weights or even boxing - will help boost your endorphins and brun off some adrenaline. I took kick-boxing lessons back in my medical oncologist days, and the act of hitting the bag HARD really helped me with some of the anxiety and sadness that was part of being an oncologist.
Besides burning off adrenaline, weight/resistance exercise really helps your bones!
Hold on there. I am 67 years old! I did take jujitsu when I was in my fifties. I also boxed. Just cannot do all that anymore.
Actually the Mexican government was right here after the flood. The military came through and rescued folks and had evacuations. They sprayed for mosquitos and came inside our houses to check our food and beds. The Mexicans got paid money for the damage from the government but I didn’t since I rent. The owners of my house got the funds. It was so sad, so many folks lost everything they owned. I diaried it on dkos and offers to help came in and I raised nearly seven hundred dollars from folks like AAF and many other good people. I was able to feed and clothe a lot of people with that money. I am still amazed that folks would send me money.
We can do it again, mango, that’s what communities like ours are for.
Always be prepared! Like a girl scout!
It is very hot in the Willamette Valley today, and yes indeed my little spuds are poking up! There are three green leaflets visible down in my potato container.
I’ve been watering them with my kitchen pot-soaking water. They look very dark green and vigorous. I’m inordinately excited.
Video record it!
Wait til they flower. Potatoes are gorgeous plants.
I have some volunteer potatoes from seedlings Kate sent me last year that I planted last year. Oops! Looks like I didn’t harvest all of them …
I’m having a piece of watermelon. It is so good. The farmers drive through town with their pickups loaded with them. I think they price them according to size. Mine is a small one that cost about one dollar.
Reminds me when I used to go to the Chinese stall in the veg market in Sydney, back in the late seventies, the man I knew would grin at me and pointed to the biggest artichokes, making dollar signs with his fingers, the smaller the finger the smaller the artichoke!
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