All humans do goofy things. The goofy feels magnified when we are ill. No one is so cool that they are above this. Pride can sometimes drive our goofy actions and blindside us. During illness, set the goofy pride aside!!
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Medical expenses are the number one cause of bankruptcy. Something wrong with that picture. The longer we are stuck in chronic illness, the more it costs. The cost of illness is astronomical. Add on the time away from work or complete loss of ability to work and illness can be a financial disaster. There are no easy answers but there are opportunities for cost of illness. Let’s try to fix our piggy banks.
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Don’t you get tired of hearing your own thinking sometimes while you are ill? Shake up the brain rattle, the endless chatter in our heads with some noise. Make it fun, make it different. Turn up the volume and let’s see if we can get our self-chatter to step aside for some real noise.
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Fear, calm and boring can all be rolled up into one day in the life of drama for someone with chronic illness. Nuts, but it is true. You know it because you are living it out as well. There can be complete boredom with the fear and drama of illness. And do we really need to hear again to “just be calm?” How can we walk through a single day with all of this nonsense?
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More than just a parasite cleanse, this is a get’m all!! Get the heavy metals, get the viruses, get the bacteria, mold, toxins, radiation, retroviruses, pathogens, etc.
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Parasites are gross and it is creepy to think of them in our bodies, yuck! The reality is, parasites are part of our global reality. If you live on planet Earth, you most likely have them. So it is time to move past the gross and creepy and move into reality and simply deal with it. We can do this in a way that keeps us in our comfort zones.
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Every time I think I understand my limits, the darn target moves. It is like I am walking on jello trying to find anything stable or consistent. Well, it just does not exist when we are ill. Things change so fast that it is hard to keep up. Yet at the same time, there is so much monotony in chronic illness that we want to move faster than our bodies will allow. Instead of playing tug-of-war with our bodies, we can adapt to the moving target.
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Yep, I called myself a dork in public yesterday. Why would I do such a thing? Because I am a dork!! I will call myself any name that I can when it makes me laugh at myself. So what are you calling yourself these days?
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When isolation has been so deep and so dark for so long we have to find a way through it, just have to. Regardless of how impossible it feels, it has to be done for our sanity. Without other human beings in our lives, we get pulled into the dark hole deeper and deeper. Would people please stop thinking this is supposed to be easy…
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No clue why I cannot get this simple concept in my head and act accordingly. I keep pushing instead of pacing myself physically and the consequences are no fun!! My guess is that you are doing better about pacing yourself through your illness. Surely no one but me would keep making the same error this many times, right????
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