Much Better Thanks!

Another step in the right direction for my health today.

Started the day with a headache (took a Panadol). Sneezing a lot, but less nose blowing than yesterday and I had plenty of energy for space clearing and cooking.

I’m doing ok.

I’ll be happier when I am completely symptom free of course. That day has to be very near!

I spent a couple of hours in the art space. I’m so close to using the room as intended, I can taste it! BGWLBH and I are very excited to get it finished and to start playing.

I posted more stuff on marketplace to sell and have had a couple of bites already.

BGWLBH and I sat in the afternoon sunshine around the pool for a while.

I made a tuna bake for dinner and we were all so hungry, we were sitting at the dinner table at 4pm!!

TV trivia was our ‘go to’ and we spent an hour naming singers and songs and then naming movies from the scenes. It was fun and full of giggles.

Then of course, it’s super Saturday so we watched the footy. So far, I have four out of four correct in the tipping … but so have many others!

I’m now in bed watching the movie PS I Love You. This movie is such an emotional ride.

That’s it for my Saturday. I was productive and I enjoyed it.

A short video to end with.

There was an unexpected 40% increase in ‘all cause deaths’ in 2021

Nite all.

Almost Healed

Put a rat in a cage and give it 2 water bottles. One is just water and one is water laced with heroin or cocaine. The rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself in a couple of weeks.

That is our theory of addiction.

Bruce comes along in the ’70s and said, “Well, hang on. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It has nothing to do. Let’s try this a bit differently.”

So he built Rat Park. Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything a rat could want is in Rat Park. Lovely food. Lots of sex. Other rats to befriend. Colored balls. Plus both water bottles, one with water and one with drugged water.

But here’s what's fascinating: In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use it. None of them overdose. None of them use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction.

What Bruce did shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong.

The right-wing theory is that it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard.

The left-wing theory is that it takes you over, your brain is hijacked.

Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment.

Now, we created a society where significant numbers of us can't bear to be present in our lives without being on something, be it drink, drugs, sex, shopping... We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for many of us, more like the first cage than the bonded, connected cages we need.

The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection.

And our whole society, the engine of it, is geared toward making us connect with ‘things’ not people.

You are not a good consumer citizen if you spend your time bonding with the people around you and not stuff.

In fact, we are trained from a young age to focus our hopes, dreams, and ambitions on things to buy and consume.

Drug addiction is a subset of that.

Credit: Johann Hari

Here we are, day seven of my illness and I realise that, in my life, I have NEVER been down with a cold/flu/virus for longer than three days.

I think that, subconsciously, I knew that because BGWLBH was here for support, and it was safe to get sick and that she would take care of my world while I rested, recovered and recuperated. I feel overwhelming gratitude for that.

I mentioned recently that it’s been ten years since I was sick - September 2012 - I love that I have eleven years of my blog to search through whenever I’m not sure of dates of events!

So today, my symptoms are those of a head cold.

I was up at 9am, made tea and toast to eat in the sun by the pool. I spent two hours in the art space sorting through and organising all the art paraphernalia in the cube cupboards.

BGWLBH prepared all of the ingredients for sweet potato hash browns so all I had to do was put it all together and cook them.

Personally, I thought the hash browns were disgusting, but between them, Adoring Husband and BGWLBH polished off 18 of them! I guess they weren’t too bad after all.

After lunch, I had to finish off ‘not so psychotic’ dog, Colli’s grooming.

AH had taken her to the groomers in the morning. It had been far too long since her last grooming and it took much longer than usual for them just cut through her fur. Colli wouldn’t allow them near her face so it was still gross and covered in muck. Her claws hadn’t been clipped either.

I spent about 40 minutes fighting her to clean and cut her facial area and then clip her nails.

She’s now a brand new dog with a bounce in her step and (without hair over her eyes) she has somewhat better vision.

After that, I sat down to watch my quiz shows and thankfully, it was AH’s turn to cook the usual Friday night marinated chicken wings, so I kept my feet up for the remainder of the day.

I’ve been through a shipload of tissues today while my nose is running like a tap and it’s been quite cool for most of the day so I’ve been wearing my ugh boots and a hoodie all day. I even closed my bedroom window last night!

I’ve just watched the NRL Friday night footy and now I’m watching the end of the Carlton AFL match, which they are winning.

I should get some sleep and hopefully feel even better tomorrow and finish off the art room.

Nite all.

I’m Ready for Healing

NIH - National Library of Medicine This is 23 pages of reading + 7 pages of references.

Read it if you’re keen to know what has been going on and what is being slowly leaked to the public via social media (both the censored and the uncensored) and even some mainstream media are beginning to question it all.

“They” can afford to let this information become available now because everybody will be distracted by increased interest rates, crazy inflation, fuel prices, food shortages, medicine shortages (thank you China), geo-engineered weather disasters, energy/power cuts, “deadly” flu season, monkey pox, continuing Covid fear, for gods sake the list is endless.

I’ve ordered the “Agenda 21” book so I can list the order in which everything was planned for the global community including what is still to come.

While publications such as The Guardian claim that Agenda 21 is a conspiracy theory, it is actually a major document that came out of the United Nations’ Rio Summit on Environment and Development in 1992.

It’s an international plan signed by approximately 178 countries to be implemented by the 21st century.

I will share more once I’ve read it.

Then, of course, there is Agenda 30, which should put the fear of god into everyone. That’s for another day.

Anyway, today my symptoms have changed again. I have a blocked and runny nose with sneezing (just like hay fever) plus diarrhoea.

I am drinking a new concoction which contains:

• Alpha GPC which increases strength, enhances muscle performance, may increase growth hormone secretion (which maintains good blood sugar levels and cell regeneration) and neuroprotective effects.
• Choline Bitartrate which supports healthy liver function and reduces Alzheimers Disease pathology.
• L-Theanine which reduces stress, improves cognitive function and helps fight depression.
• Vit B6 which slows cognitive decline, reduces anxiety, helps prevent panic attacks and fights depression.
• Vit C which protects the immune cells, reduces the length of illness and is an effective nutritional antioxidant.
• Vit D which enhances immunity and protects against pathogens, helps prevent and treat respiratory infections, has beneficial affects against autoimmune disease and helps regulate healthy gut micribiota.
• Ashwagandha which increases muscle strength, improves cardio endurance, reduces stress and anxiety.
• Vit B5 which improves energy and memory and reverses cognitive decline.
• Huperzine A, pipeline, Phosphatidyl Serine, N-Acetyl L-Tyrosine, Sulbutiamine, Taurine, Acetyl-L-Carnitine, Caffiene and Rodiola Rosina, all of which improve energy, brain function, memory, athletic performance and endurance and cardio function, reaction times, nutrient absorption as well as reducing cognitive decline, depression, anxiety, the effects of auto immune disorders and illness.

All of this in a delicious, cooling drink that hydrates and energises.

While I really liked the one I’ve been drinking for the last month (Shield) and I feel like my head has been clearer and my mind sharper, today is my first day on these (Pro) so I’ll let you know if I feel a difference.

It’s almost 1.30pm so I think I’ll go sit in the sunshine for a while and see if I can clear a bit in the art room. Maybe do some stretching exercises. I’ll write more later.

Later … the sun was quite lovely and the weather was mild so I sat by the pool with BGWLBH for a while before the mandatory garden tour - everything is growing well.

I lay down for an hour before creating a spicy sauce to cover the chicken thighs in before placing them in a hot oven for 40 minutes.

BGWLBH made a variety of salads and we ate an early dinner at 5pm.

After dinner, BGWLBH did some more healing work on my sinuses and my neck glands that are feeling a touch tender. I caught up on some recorded TV shows and came back to bed at 8.30pm.

It’s so cold tonight, I’ve closed my bedroom window - just to avoid a chill on my already fragile body.

My bed is toasty warm and I’m ready to sleep.

Nite all.

What Next?

Well, a whole new set of symptoms for today!

Even though I felt motivated and mentally energised to get stuff done, whenever I stood up and tried to move, I felt dizzy and very weak. It also felt a bit like my brain was floating weirdly inside my skull.

My throat is fine now but I have an annoying niggling cough and a blocked nose.

At the risk of providing too much information, I also have diarrhoea.

All of my original symptoms have gone and I have a whole set of new ones.

It’s weird because even though I’m staying in bed for most of the day, I’m still able to get up and do a few things like walking out to pool area to sit in the sunshine and soak up some healing vitamin D, spend half an hour in the art space unpacking, put together my paleo pizza, cook it and sit at the dining table to eat it.

I even sat in the lounge room with Adoring Husband for the first half of tonight’s State of Origin! 

Go QUEENSLAND! 16 - 10 winners!

Anyway, I still feel like I’m healing and BGWLBH did her healing hands magic on me. 

Without her actually touching me, I could feel the heat of her hands and unexpected tingling through my scalp and my throat. Wouldn’t it be fabulous to wake up tomorrow completely healed!?

Watch this space.

It’s very chilly tonight! My weather app says it’s currently 11°C and I added a light cover on my bed. Unheard of!

This is worth watching and, except for the alien part, is closer to home than you think (although some believe the alien part is also true!)

X Files Conspiracy scene

Ready for sleep now.

Nite all.

Movement

My morning throat is maximum pain!

Razor blades.

Impossible to swallow.

Within two hours of waking and without taking anything for it (except spraying colloidal silver on it), the pain has gone.

So by about 9.30am today, I got out of bed with more energy than I’ve had for three days. 

I did a load of washing and took some off the line and folded it, then hung mine.

I made some breakfast and sat in the sun in my art space to eat it.

I took some rubbish out to the bins, spent about 30 minutes in the art space clearing, took my own tour of the gardens to see how BGWLBH’s plants were faring, sat in the direct sun by the pool for 20 minutes and then ran out of energy and returned to bed.

Twenty minutes later BGWLBH arrived home from her morning in The Bay and announced via text that she had a green juice for me! How thoughtful! Just what I needed.

I just watched an AJ Roberts video where he interviews a highly qualified and knowledgeable Dr Ryan Cole about the current state of the world and I thought you might find it interesting …

Dr Ryan Cole

Learn more about everything HERE

Adoring Husband had a trip into The Bay this morning too and I asked him to pick up this beautiful amethyst crystal that I’d asked Tinkerbell’s to hold for me.

Now I think I need to nap. I’ll add more later.

Well, my afternoon and evening saw my health improve exponentially!

After a short nap, I jumped out of bed, removed my washing from the line, folded it and put it away.

I organised Adoring Husband to cook our protein on the barbecue while BGWLBH made some delicious salads and I prepared a spicy sauce for the meat and we all sat down together to eat dinner. I ate a full meal for the first time in four days.

After dinner, I announced that I would love hot apple pie and ice cream for dessert and suddenly remembered that AH had brought home GF apple pies from The Bay today! 

How fortuitous!

So BGWLBH and I played three games of Sequence while we waited for the pies to heat up and AH loaded the dishwasher.

Dessert was delicious! 

Instead of needing to fall back into bed, I sat in the lounge room with AH to watch Big Brother.

I’m definitely feeling much better - let’s hope I wake up feeling even more energised tomorrow!

Nite all.

Up & Down

During the night I was feeling great. My sore throat was no longer sore and I thought I was on the mend.

When I woke up, my throat was worse than ever, I had a headache and my body ached.

By 3pm my throat was completely fine, my headache was gone and I just felt a bit tingly on my skin.

Still low energy but my head feels a lot clearer.

I think this will be short lived.

It’s been 11 years since a flu put me into bed for a few days. Twice in the last eleven years I’ve had a couple of symptoms which I successfully fought off with a combination of goodies like raw garlic and honey, essential oils, bone broth, juices, vitamins, probiotics etc.

I’ve been spraying colloidal silver onto the back of my throat, drinking concoctions full of disease fighting goodness, lots of filtered water, raw honey, soups and teas.

The fact that I haven’t felt too sick to do my blog posts says a lot.

I had an hour of clarity and drew a cock …

Get your mind out of the gutter!

BGWLBH cooked up a delicious meal of curried sausages with potato and sweet potato mash, cauliflower and beans for dinner. I joined my team at the table and felt very grateful to have two caring and loving people in my house taking care of me.

I’m hoping that I can find the energy and motivation to move into the art space for a little while tomorrow. Even if it’s just for an hour, I would be happy to clear a little bit more out.

Right now, it’s time to sleep.

Nite all.

On The Up

After another day in bed, punctuated by a couple of hours in the sunshine by the pool, I am beginning to feel a little better.

BGWLBH fed me chicken and vegetable soup as well as fresh fruit and hot tea.

That helped.

Adoring Husband conducted my business for me, handing over the small dining setting and taking money from the lady who drove here from Hervey Bay.

My team had to fend for themselves for the remainder of the day but I could smell the bacon and eggs that AH prepared for breakfast. Yum.

I slept a lot, watched a movie and watched half of the football.

It’s almost 10pm and I hope to fall asleep a lot easier than I did last night. It was after 3am when I slept and my bladder woke me at 4.20am and I slept until 7am.

Some solid sleep would be great 😴

Nite all.