…Alas, I have to wear dark glasses because of the eyes: have to protect the iris from light changes: keep the muscle from working, the doc says. We wore sweatshirts because it seemed a night for it, but while we live at about 65 degrees, that number of people quickly overheated the house to the point my glasses kept sliding down my nose, and something I ate at the potluck massively didn’t agree with me: intense stomach cramps. We not only ended up going home way early, I ended up just going to bed. Sigh.
But I’m doing fire this morning. Just wanted to sleep in soooo bad. But if I don’t get up, the whole day gets off schedule, and I need to get back to work.
Rained like crazy from yesterday afternoon til morning; now just kind of overcast, which is nice since I work by a window. And the outside temperature is holding pretty well in the 40’s by day, 30’s by night. If the amount of rain we’ve had this week were snow, we’d be two feet deep.
But the snow will come, I’m pretty sure.
Had a call from my brother last evening…too…he’s got his eye on a house, and I so hope he gets it.
Ouch….onions in the potluck?
Are you by chance allergic to lilies? Onions and garlic, as well as chives, and leeks, are in the lily family, I believe.
I wish you could have enjoyed the party more, you needed some “getaway” time where you didn’t have to worry about much of anything, just having a good time with friends.
I hope David is able to get that house.
I’m sorry the night out wasn’t successful, but I’m sure you made the right choice in going home and getting some sleep. Allergies are such a pain, particularly if others don’t take them seriously.
I rarely sleep longer than six hours, if I am tired I take a siesta.
I hope the house works out.
I’m allergic to the smell of garden lilies and to onions, garlic, leeks, shallots, chives and the whole family. I’m sure there wasn’t onion in the soup—the hosts are good cooks, they were specially aware of Jane’s problem and mine, and they made that pot special—I don’t know what it was; but table-grazing at a potluck can be a bit of a minefield for Jane and me. Whatever it was, I got it and she didn’t.
I sincerely hope that it wasn’t a new allergy you discovered!
I’m sorry that your suffering continues, CJ. It is my intention only to be helpful and it is because of my deep desire to see you restored to perfect health that I am motivated to reemphasize the value of herbal supplements and natural healing. I’ll stop if you prefer.
And if you don’t mind, CJ, I’d like to make a quick shout out to that T-reg person. @T-reg -Sorry if I didn’t clarify that what I meant were supplements and herbs sold in stores in capsule or tablet form. Obviously the substances you mentioned are deadly but they aren’t, in general, encapsulated and sold as health supplements. Even still, I don’t think you had to be so rude.
Also my experience has been if there is some kind of risk associated with the herb or supplement, the bottle/labeling will reflect it. And I *did* warn of overdose.. always you can overdose on anything—water included.
Anyway, I did want to add that I’m not comfortable using the the Asian and East Indian herbs (of which Ephedra is an example) willy-nilly. They’ve been cultivated for centuries to be as potent as possible, which makes overdosing much easier if you’re not careful. My advice with those kinds of drugs (and they are the eastern world’s version of pharmaceuticals), is take them sparingly and/or with an eastern healing practitioner’s advice and guidance.
Having said that, I will clarify that, no, I don’t think that the eastern medical profession is anywhere near as corrupt as the western version (and their big pharma based training/prejudice) and consequently are a great deal more trustworthy. Their focus is on whole body wellness, not just fixing a localized symptom. They also address the whole body/mind/emotion/spirit connection for greater in-depth treatment which I see as a far more optimal healing modality.
Are you still having the concentration problems you mentioned? I hope you have been able to settle down and write. I know how like a fire horse you are. The alarm bell goes off and you’re rarin’ to get into harness and start pounding those keys.
We’ve had enough of a cotton crop here (TX panhandle) that I’ve been sneezing and wheezing for a month now, so I entirely empathize about allergies. I’ve had to hit my rescue inhaler twice today, so far. Considering that they pretty much didn’t have a crop last year, and what that did to our local economy, I’m almost glad to be . . .ACHOO! ACHOO! ACHOO!. . .THWONK! . . . well, sorta-kinda almost glad. . .
So sorry things didn’t turn out. But maybe the sleep did you good.
Taking it easy here tonight, so maybe I can be productive during the week and relax on Thanksgiving.
blech! nothing like going to a party and getting sick because of it. Parties are supposed to be fun. take care!
Potlucks can be a pain, literally!, when one has severe food intolerances. My better half is severely gluten intolerant and she won’t eat anything at a generic potluck; only dishes from people we know well, who’ll tell her what is and isn’t safe. It seems as if environmental toxins and/or over-processed foods have gotten everyone’s immune systems totally up in arms. It may be time for a new potluck etiquette where each dish has a slip of paper beneath it detailing the ingredients, whether it’s known for sure to contain or be free of the usual suspects: gluten, dairy, peanuts, nuts, lilies, legumes or the insidious little modern enhancements of dubious provenance such as MSG, modified food starch, hydrolized vegetable protein, papayin. Gee, I can find Papaya, but the rest of those don’t seem to be in any botanical reference I’ve ever seen. Bit of a rant, but my hobby is looking for safe versions of treats or just everyday ready-to-serve foods that she has liked and hasn’t been able to trust for decades; and finding that the manufacturer has recycled his floor sweepings for bulk or substituted chemical “enhancers” for honest spices, all in pursuit of that last ten-thousandth of a percent of profit, is hard to take sometimes. But seriously, for some, including my own helpmate, there are limits to what can be ingested, far, far smaller than normal dietary usages, before one becomes miserable, temporarily incapacitated, severely ill, or deceased.