Back to the Basics - A Very Good Thing

Home made chicken soup loaded with onions, carrots, garlic, cilantro, a dash of salt and my home made red tomato hot salsa + lemon, mint, ginger tea + lots of fluids = a cure for bronchitis/whooping cough?  Oh, I forgot to mention vapor rub slathered all over my chest, back, and feet.  Then as soon as my soup is done cooking, I am going to sit in my bedroom with the humidifier set at full blast and the door closed.  Long gone are my days of sitting with my head over a pot of hot water with a towel over my head to keep the steam in.  Technology is wonderful!

Today I decided to get back to the basics, the old school way of healing.  I have been sick since last Monday, we are talking 10 days of headache, body aches, congestion, cough, sore throat, difficulty breathing, no decent sleep, major disruption to my family schedule and responsibilities, and the stress of possibly not getting a pay check in a week since I have almost no leave from being out of work for so long with my ankle and shoulder surgeries.  Oh, and I will probably have gained a few pounds when it is all said and done since I have hardly moved my body since this all started.  I have been eating a little less, so there is hope.  It has been one heck of a ride with antibiotics, an inhaler, prescription cough meds with codeine, and steroids to make all the meds work better.  Basically, I have been poisoning myself with medication to make myself better.  So, I decided to do some research on my symptoms to see which foods can possibly cure me.  Those listed above are what I found.  I decided to take myself off of the prescription cough meds and switch to a decongestant.  I hope to have come up with the perfect combination of power foods and meds to finally kick this sickness out of my life.  *Now, I am not a doctor, so do not take my plan of action and say that I told you to do it and make yourself worse if you have some kind of crazy illness.  :)

At this point, you may be asking - why blog about being sick?  Well, thank you for asking, I would love to tell you!  I truly believe that we can find good things in everything that we do and in everything that happens to us, IF we choose to see those good things.  For instance - no, I have not been able to move much and I have been feeling miserable, but that means that I have been able to start this blog that I have been wanting to start for a while.  After all, I can only watch so much tv before I feel like my brain is turning to mush.  I have also been able to go through tons of emails in an attempt to clear out my numerous accounts - the accounts that I give out for: emails that I actually want to receive; the one for stuff that I sign up for that requires an email address, but I really don't want to receive the marketing; my very first email account that I have not been able to let go of even though I rarely use it; my other email address that I originally set up for spam mail and then later decided to change, but that I can't get rid of now because it is my full name and I might need it one day; and my business email addresses.  I have three of those (I just set up my blog email).  I always keep up with immediate needs, but I have some old training and marketing emails that I need to clean up. 

I have also had A LOT of time to think about what I want to do when I "grow up."  For some reason, I have not been able to make that decision yet.  Now I know why, or maybe I should say that I accept the why, since I have known it for a while.  I have been afraid to truly admit what I want and afraid of failing at it if I try to do it.  But, I finally decided that not trying is worse than failure.  It is failure mixed with fear and regrets which make up this sludgy stew that catches you in it and does not want to let you go.  I won't divulge everything right now, but let's just say, that I love public speaking, reading, writing and health/environmental causes.   :) 

Ultimately, without this illness, I truly believe that I would not have finally made my decision so soon.  My decision to go get it all.  Don't get me wrong, I love what I do at my day job, but a girl needs to have some great extra curricular activities that she can be committed to and truly love doing.  So, fear, get out of my way so that I can carve my path in life before I kick the bucket.  If I end up being a fantastic success at what I attempt, I am definitely going to retire from that day job before I turn 80.  LOL.

So Bronchitis/Whooping Cough - Thanks!