Everybody Loves Snakes

Well, my little Tawnies have left the nest, and while I was photographing them, I heard a yell from across the road.

It was a friend asking me if I'd like to photograph a snake.

So I high-tailed it across the road to find a stunningly beautiful python in an empty garbage bin.

The man who owns the house, has a row of inter-connected aviaries in his backyard where his mother used to breed cockatiels (this is where we bought OB, the crazy bird that we got as a friend for SEB). His Mum passed away a couple of months ago and now he is continuing on with her hobby.

He wondered why the birds were disappearing. They had reduced from around 40 to just 8!

So he went searching through the aviaries today and discovered this beauty hiding up high in one corner and very well hidden.

So we took it out of town to relocate it in some bushland beside a lake.

Beautiful creature.

Tomorrow, Adoring Husband and I are travelling by train down to Brisbane to meet with a new Specialist about his Parkinson's.

We gave up on the Neurologist in Bundaberg. In two years, he hasn't provided any comfort, nor has he eased any of the symptoms. The medications that he has prescribed have been more trouble than they were worth with horrible side effects and beyond that, he has offered no other hope. Besides that, he wasn't at all friendly or encouraging and had a very abrupt bedside manner.

The Neurologist in Brisbane has a very good reputation and is, apparently, the top of his field, so we have high hopes of getting some satisfaction from him.

It's going to be a big day, so I need to get some sleep.

Nite all.

Dateless Date

Adoring Husband and I decided, while sitting at the Seat of Knowledge this morning, to go to the movies.

We had to go into town for shopping, an appointment with the doctor and to get dog and chook food, so we drove in early and each saw a 9.30am movie.

Adoring Husband saw the movie "Interstellar" starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway which ran for almost 3 hours.

At the end, he described it as long, boring and convoluted but intriguing. He was disappointed.

I chose to see "This is Where I Leave You" starring Jane Fonda, Jason Bateman and Tina Fey.

I loved it.

It was funny in parts, heartwarming, heart wrenching and intense. I could relate so well to this dysfunctional family, who with all their faults and frailties, loved and cared about each other, but just didn't know how to express that love in a healthy way. By the end of the movie, I grew to love each one of them and wished that I could give them all a hug.

I recommend it and I'll be buying it on dvd when it's released.

I had an hour to spare after my movie finished, so I got to do some shopping while I waited for AH to come out of his movie.

I bought an Adam Sandler movie and a little gift for my Chicklet.

While AH went to his doctor's (not his usual doctor, where I have to be his bodyguard) appointment, I got to spend some time at the shopping mall, where I had a little bit of a spending spree, buying myself four tops, a pair of shorts and some cheap jewellery. I also got some books and clothes for Chicklet.

Then we picked up our organic FROG box and arrived home at about 4.30pm.

It was a long, but very enjoyable day.

Then to top it off, a pretty sunset that I photographed over the lagoon.

Nite all.

Finely Tuned

This is what I've learned recently ...

The body has cancer cells within it 'all the time' and the healthy immune system clears them and fights them and keeps you healthy. If you have a poor diet and lifestyle, then the immune system becomes exhausted from trying to keep you healthy.

In some cases, a tumour is created by the exhausted immune system.  It is effectively building a wall around the cancer cells to keep it under control until the exhaustion passes, but if your diet and lifestyle doesn't change, then your immune system will remain exhausted and the wall cannot hold the cancerous cells for very long.

The human body is finely tuned and has the power to heal itself .. a broken bone, a cold/flu, an infection, tumours/cancer etc. As long as you provide it with what it needs, such as exercise, breathing oxygen efficiently, vitamin D from the sun, vitamins and nutrients from food, good mental and emotional health, good quality sleep, enough clean filtered water to name a few.

Along with these very important needs, we must remove as many toxins from our lives as we can,  to make it as easy as possible for our immune system to build on our good health, instead of using all of it's time fighting our bad health.

Some brief examples of what we need to do:

Sunshine helps to heal all emotional and mental disorders, but you also need vitamin K to help absorb vitamin D properly, which you will find in lots of vegetables. Most people with chronic illness also have a chronic vitamin D deficiency.

Stop eating sugar. Sugar feeds cancer. Physicians should know that sugar feeds cancer. The reason they should know is because PET scans use sugar to locate the cancer cells inside your body.

The acidity of your body needs to be above 7.  You can buy pH paper to test your own acidity.

Detoxifying. Liver detox is important. The reason we detox, is because the cancerous cells have to be removed somehow and the safest and least invasive way is with detoxification through juices, lymphatic drainages, coffee enemas, hyperthermia etc.

Additionally, your brain can't work when there are deficiencies in your body. Even one deficiency can create havoc with your brain.

There are many different cancer treatments, and the most common is chemotherapy.

Chemotherapy doesn't just kill cancer cells, it kills the good cells that we need and it destroys our immune system, which then can't fight other diseases. This is why people easily get sick with other illnesses like pneumonia, colds/flus, infections, diarrhoea, ulcers etc., during treatment. This is also why people die from the cancer treatment, rather than from the cancer itself.

So if you choose chemotherapy as your cancer treatment, you also have to work very hard, at the same time, on all of the other things that I have mentioned, so that your immune system is strong enough to help your body heal and to fight off the germs that other people want to pass on to you.

Without a healthy and strong immune system, there is little hope!

Don't wait until you're sick before you work on your immune system. Do everything in your power to keep it strong, because if it's working perfectly, you simply cannot get sick.

Once upon a time, doctors knew this important fact, but unfortunately, now they only understand how to manage ill health with any number of medications.

With so many toxins in our lives these days (even the carpets on our floors, the paint on our walls and the plastics and glues in our furnishings), it's impossible to live a toxin free life, so the best we can do is build and strengthen our immune system to keep us happy and healthy and strong.

That is what I have learned.

Nite all.

Living the Syndrome

What is boiled frog syndrome?

It's based on the premise that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death without moving.

Are we the boiled frogs?

With the daily burden of chemicals in our food, air, water, personal care products, household products and furnishings, combined with malnourishment through diets composed mainly of processed and “dead” foods, we end up engineering a slow but sure death of cells in our body.

This leads directly to a breaking point that results in disease processes that invoke ageing, pain, illness and other forms of suffering.

Most people call it “getting older”, but I believe we are actually “becoming toxic and malnourished”. There’s a big difference and this is why our body breaks down as it does and we complain about getting old.

On top of this, we all have psychological issues that we have never resolved, and which manifest in our subconscious and eventually affect us in some physical way.

So, for many of us, no amount of healthy living will cure our ills because we have this psychological blockage that stops the healing process.

The human body is so complex and so brilliant, working to keep us alive and healthy, while we abuse the life out of it or treat it with disrespectful neglect until it just can't cope anymore because we are not giving it the resources it needs to thrive. 

A healthy immune system is the only thing that keeps us from death, but we do so little to nourish it or to understand it.

I wish that I had cared enough to understand this concept years ago, but then, the rules for, and scientific knowledge of health, have changed considerably just in the last 5 years, so maybe my timing is just right!

With that out of the way, I will stop with the health talk and share my Tawny photos ...

The second photo was the little chick watching me leave as I walked under the nest. How cute is that?

It was Melbourne Cup day today. The race that stops the nation.

Adoring Husband and I sat on our couch, put some money into an online betting account and watched the races on TV. We lost our money, but it was a bit of fun and I made healthy snacks for us to munch on and we didn't have to dress up or watch fashion parades.

Almost midnight again.

Nite all.

He's Back!

Adoring Husband has returned from Brisbane with excellent results from his health check surgery.

He has the 'all clear' but has to return in 3 months for a further check up .. how else would the specialist make enough money to pay for his high rise office and his house on the water and his world trips? But don't get me started!

It's good to have him home knowing that he is healthy.

I was also happy to hear about his conversation with the barista who served him when he bought his first coffee since his health scare 3 months ago.

She asked if he wanted sugar and when he replied 'no thanks' she responded how nice it was to serve someone who didn't want that poison in his coffee! They then talked about different sugar alternatives and he told her about coconut sugar.

Was that really my husband having that conversation?

Crikey! He has come a long way!

I have to thank my little brother for being there in our moment of need. When the hospital wouldn't allow AH to leave the hospital unless he had someone to escort him, my LB and his friend drove an hour to the hospital to sign him out and then drove him to the train station. Otherwise AH would have had to stay an extra night in the hospital.

We also must thank Happy Harry for driving all the way to Howard to pick AH up from the train station late at night. It's a big ask at such a late hour and we appreciate your good soul. Karma will reward you by bringing good health and happiness in abundance. Thank you.

So we are happy and feeling the love. Harmony has returned and life as we know it is balanced again.

Nite all (those Tawny photos still to come .. tomorrow)

Stormy

We were hit with a pretty big storm tonight. It started with a few large hail stones and changed to very heavy rain (24mm in 30 minutes) with strong winds, lightning and cracking thunder.

It made the psychotic dogs even more psychotic than usual and they wouldn't settle down until I let them in on the couch, where they all huddled quietly together until it passed.

The storm was bad enough to trigger a little PTS in me and I was relieved when it passed without incident, although it's difficult to tell in the dark if there is any damage to the solar panels on the roof. It will be easier to tell in the light of day tomorrow.

Adoring Husband is in Brisbane tonight and will make his way into the hospital early tomorrow morning for the follow up tests on his bladder and prostate.

I went for a ride before lunch and it was incredibly windy down by the water, so I wasn't out for long, and that is the extent of my day.

I took some photos of the Tawnies and you will be surprised at how much they have already grown! I'll post them tomorrow.

Nite all.