New Year '17
So, it's been awhile since I wrote in this journal. I've moved to other social media sites that have a quicker snap and punch, and less archive. Still, sometimes it's nice to write something more permanent. As many have said, 2016 was a hard year, and it was nice to bid adieu to it. Some good things happened of course, but by the end of it, it seemed like alot of bad stuff. We have a president for the next four years who is if not a joke, an outright nightmare. Of course we have no idea if 2017 is going to be any better, but I like that people are hopeful. I think hope really pull us through the dark times.
I've been sick a good part of 2016. It's been a gradual decline that just snapped after Thanksgiving. I've been more or less in bed unless someone really needed me for something. I got us through Christmas. Thank the Gods for Amazon. We pretty much got all the gifts ordered and delivered from online. I think everyone had a good holiday. I sent out some Christmas cards to those who mattered most. I wrote notes to those I really cared about that I hadn't been feeling well lately. I figured if I dropped dead, I wanted them to have some heads up.
I've had mystery ailment going on, but one doc gave a tentative diagnosis of eosinosphiliac esophogitis. (I'm not going to check if I spelled that right.) It's basically an auto immune disease - allergies gone wild. The upshot is I have trouble breathing, eating or sleeping. At the moments, the only foods I'm not reacting to is bananas, rice cakes with almond butter, rice and olive oil. It gets old fast, but at least there's something that doesn't make me sick. I'm just exhausted coming and going.
I reacted to one medicine and had trouble drawing a breath for hours. Once cutting that out, at least I could suck in oxygen. If I could do that, it felt like I had a baseline to build all else from. I have more doctors' visits planned. I'm not sure what the future holds, but I am doing a bit better, and I have hope. Buckets and oceans of hope. I would like go dancing when I get better. I would like to go to England and Ireland when I get better.
I'm raising a glass of chamomile tea toward 2017. (Forgot to mention that's another thing I can tolerate.) Blessings for a better year coming! :)
I've been sick a good part of 2016. It's been a gradual decline that just snapped after Thanksgiving. I've been more or less in bed unless someone really needed me for something. I got us through Christmas. Thank the Gods for Amazon. We pretty much got all the gifts ordered and delivered from online. I think everyone had a good holiday. I sent out some Christmas cards to those who mattered most. I wrote notes to those I really cared about that I hadn't been feeling well lately. I figured if I dropped dead, I wanted them to have some heads up.
I've had mystery ailment going on, but one doc gave a tentative diagnosis of eosinosphiliac esophogitis. (I'm not going to check if I spelled that right.) It's basically an auto immune disease - allergies gone wild. The upshot is I have trouble breathing, eating or sleeping. At the moments, the only foods I'm not reacting to is bananas, rice cakes with almond butter, rice and olive oil. It gets old fast, but at least there's something that doesn't make me sick. I'm just exhausted coming and going.
I reacted to one medicine and had trouble drawing a breath for hours. Once cutting that out, at least I could suck in oxygen. If I could do that, it felt like I had a baseline to build all else from. I have more doctors' visits planned. I'm not sure what the future holds, but I am doing a bit better, and I have hope. Buckets and oceans of hope. I would like go dancing when I get better. I would like to go to England and Ireland when I get better.
I'm raising a glass of chamomile tea toward 2017. (Forgot to mention that's another thing I can tolerate.) Blessings for a better year coming! :)