When possible, I avoid taking medicines and over the counter drugs, preferring effective homeopathic remedies. But, there are times when one must put chemistry over principle and take a prescription in order to feel better.
It's been quite some time since I've had a sinus infection and I don't recall it feeling so terrible. Funny how our memory filters out pain and discomfort for us. Yet, this is what I have and I know there is only one way to rid oneself of that horrid illness and that is antibiotics. It's been a long month of restless sleep, occasional fever, earaches and headaches and overall blahness. I did nothing more than the strictest of minimum required and even passed on some of that. Needless to say, I got behind. In everything.
Today is day five on medication and I woke up feeling like I actually could participate in something with a somewhat clear head and with a renewed energy rather than working from dwindling reserves. Keeping in mind doctor's orders, "don't overdo it", I have done several changes of laundry, cleaned the kitchen and the floors, climbed on all fours into Pinkie's kennel and scrubbed it out, took out the trash and recycling and washed the trash can, done a little work work, caught up on poop scooping, scrubbed some water buckets, played endless fetch with the poodles who were so happy momma could once again fling that ball with some umph, hammered a loose flashing on the horse shelter, fixed a pesky part of the fencing that keeps coming down, watched the Bald Eagle new eaglet activity and the beginnings of the second egg hatching, talked to my mom, topped off with a few more miscellaneous items. And I still have a little left to give!
I'm going to start slowing down for the day as I might be coming close to the overdo limit. It's when your meds really kick in that you realize just how crappy you have been feeling.
Good health is on the horizon! May you be healthy as well.
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Monday, April 7, 2014
Compassion
"Let the ugliness of unkindness in others impel me to make myself beautiful with loving-kindness.
May harsh speech from my companions remind me to use sweet words always. If stones from evil minds are cast at me, let me send in return only missiles of goodwill.
As a jasmine vine sheds its flowers over the hands delivering ax blows at its roots, so, on all who act inimically toward me may I shower the blossoms of forgiveness."
~~~Paramahansa Yogananda
May harsh speech from my companions remind me to use sweet words always. If stones from evil minds are cast at me, let me send in return only missiles of goodwill.
As a jasmine vine sheds its flowers over the hands delivering ax blows at its roots, so, on all who act inimically toward me may I shower the blossoms of forgiveness."
~~~Paramahansa Yogananda
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