December 22 2015

December 22 2015 Greetings My Friend My new found energy is wonderfully profound. My days are filled with more activity, my thinking grows even more clearer. The free fall into chronic fatigue and in the midst of chronic fatigue I longed for energy and days of sleeping and feeling exhausted to move about the house started to feel normal. I still don’t know to what extent I will continue to gain and retain a decent energy level so I move into life with caution. I overextended myself recently thinking I was going to pay the usual price of extreme tiredness. I did pay a price but not tiredness. I was over wound up where sleeping was impossible. I was able to keep moving and doing well into the night. Sleep did come eventually. For some reason I found myself sleeping in segments throughout the day. I even was able to do housework, run an errand or two and work on crafts. The next night I was able to get to sleep at a decent hour. I was awake very early the following morning and so far I have not needed to take a nap to make up for lost sleep. I don’t know where this day will take me so I wait to see. In the meantime I am finishing up my morning quiet time rather early and I have extra things I want to work into this day if I can. My lungs feel clear and I don’t know how my asthma will behave. I continue to find ways to avoid my triggers. For the first time in my life I am more aware of ways to cope through my allergies. As a child us kids were not given much attention to our illness’ They were not acknowledged unless it was major. I had bronchitis for 6 weeks and it was one of the few times I was allowed to be sick. The same pattern was present in my first marriage. I tried to tough out my illness and ignore them. I usually got to the point I could not function so it was then I stopped to deal with my struggles. Through the years I started to learn to stop at the first signs of illness and I discovered that I overcame the illness quicker. Allergies though are vague and figuring out the triggers has been a lot of work to discover the source. I believe I have had symptoms of asthma through the years and I was told if I thought I had it then I would get it instead of learning to pay attention to triggers and eliminate them from my life. I have for the first time in my life learned to eliminate some of the triggers, like carpet that collects many of the allergens. I know dust is a major struggle for me so we now have air purifiers all over the house. I take an allergy medication or supplement daily, use my maintenance inhaler daily and I believe some of my regained energy is because of the work of eliminating my triggers. I also think that my doctor helping me discover other problems that I am dealing with such as my balance issues and tremors is helping me gain energy too by the medications, the aids such as a walking stick and use of a walker as needed. Using these aids allows me to not tire out so much. Knowing I need to do various things for my health and following through means I can stay active for a bit longer. Knowing when to slow down and even stop helps as much as eliminating things from my life. Once more I reflect that God’s healing may be trusting to follow His instructions one tiny step at a time and to quit waiting for the huge miracle. May God bless you and keep you make His face shine on you. Love Janet