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I cannot believe it has been two weeks since my last post! Time flies, yet not that much has happened! I have tolook at my planner to remember.. but that refers to events not blessings. The Lord blesses me everyday!
The events have been far and few between because I have really been hit hard by my allergies. We live in a very allergy prone area surrounded by mountains and the pollen hovers everywhere! It isn’t as if I don’t try. I’ve been on weekly allergy shots for years. I get two shots every Wednesday. I, also, take Allegra every day! But the problem is I do not manifest visible allergic symptoms, very little sneezing or nose blowing. Mine is swollen head, tons of pressure, stuffy ears, with loud ringing! Swollen, itchy eyes, and generally feel terrible. I go to church, but when I get up to sing I get extremely dizzy and often feel very queasy. So I haven’t gone many places or special events except Bible Study and prayer group. The Lord gets me through those things as if I have nothing going on! Praise Him, because those two events are my most important during the week!
The other events of my week , well, for the last 7 weeks are physicalTherapy visits! I have strength and balance issues and I am on my second round of monthly visits. They really do help me, but they are pretty tough. I am sore for a few days following.. so sore the idea of practicing my exercises daily is very difficult, so I usually wait a few days before jumping in again. The sessions are hard too, so by therapy time I am dreading it so badly. But God is with me. I am always so surprised how faithful He is to provide in me the strength and desire to push hard each week. I aim to make as much improvement each time as I can so that if I require another round, my therapist will consider me someone who will work through it! I give God all the glory for pushing me for my well being, for I am weak of heart otherwise!
Over a week ago Lynn and I spent a lovely spring morning purchasing our spring bedding plants! We didn’t get them planted until this past week!
I am afraid the deer have been messing around in this pot.. Lynn addressed the problem this afternoon.
The geraniums are potted on our porch!
These perennials are looking beautiful!
I was watching a Youtube video of the Daily Connoisseur this week and I learned about keeping a Commonplace Book. Now I journal, but this is different and I love it! I talked to my daughter and she told me she just started one, as well, so they are really catching on, even though it is a very old way of keeping special writings close to your heart. In my Commonplace Book, I keep it with me when I do my daily Bible reading and scriptures that mean a lot to me, or that I need to memorize. I write in the book, I am trying to write beautifully and decorate the page a bit as I go. The Commonplace Book is meant to be a life long book to pass down through the family if anyone then is interested.
The Lord blessed me the last few days in inspiring me to use my new found energy due to the exercise, to do more cooking than usual. We have really enjoyed some home cooked meals... four in a row now, that tasted so good and were a real blessing to us. We had, over time, gotten into eating well, but not full blown home cooking, and it has been an act of God that I have been so inspired after a long while of just basic meal planning and preparing!
Well, I hope your week adds been heaven blessed and that you are looking forward to a marvelous weekend and Mother's Day . God bless you all !!!
One thing I'm looking forward to once I retire the end of the school year proper (no more teaching summer school for me!!) is the TIME to really cook. I love to cook. I make home made meals 5 out of 7 nights usually and i love it but I tend to choose super easy plant based ones that only take 20 min to prep. I want to try some new vegan dishes, and maybe do a bit more baking.
ReplyDeleteAllergies can actually be made worse by getting weekly shots for years AND by taking daily meds, did you know that?? My youngest daughter did an experiment when she got to Junior High school back in 2014. For the previous 3 springs she had HORRIBLE spring allergies with all the symptoms you described (full ears to the point where we thought they were infected; itchy swollen eyes and a little sneezing). Pediatrician said try Children's allegra. It did nothing. I switched her to regular adult allegra and it worked great the first 2 springs she was on it. Then her third year she started taking it every other day. Her allergies started to improve. Then by 2014 she stopped altogether and never had another symptom!! (until this year). I experienced the exact same thing all last year when docs were saying my cervicogenic headaches were from allergies. I tried every OTC you could buy and spent hundreds of dollars only to see the symptoms (itchy eyes, congestion, full ears/plugged ears) get worse and worse. Finally stopped in Sept and slowly everything improved. This past March I began a RX allergy pill at bedtime (Montelukast brand name Singular) and voila. NO major allergy symptoms. If you research allergy shots you will see that they become less effective over time. Stop wasting time and money. I told the ENT NO WAY am i doing the shots. I take the RX my primary doc gave me and that is it. OH I sometimes use a saline spray but haven't needed it much this month. Beginning of April I needed it daily. You can soothe allergies with natural means too but that would take too long to go into here. I will pray yours improve! They're no fun.
HAPPY MOTHERs DAY!!
Wishing you a Happy Mother's Day my friend and I hope you get to feeling better soon.
ReplyDeleteI am glad the comment I made about allergies encouraged you. I was afraid I was coming across as a know it all. that was NOT my intention believe me. I am so tired of the medical pros pushing pills, pushing for things that nature and God's creation can handle. And guess what?? today I woke up with my husband around 6:30. My nose was congested, I was sneezing and my eyes were horribly itchy, my ear full (yes I took my Rx allergy pill last night) and my sinuses were PLUGGED. Took a tylenol sinus tablet and voila......sinuses unplugged. chose to NOT take an allegra and by about an hour the ear was fine and my sneezing and itchy eyes had stopped. HM.......(oh and i took 3 advil for the headache i woke up with and praise God the pain went away as I drove my husband and I to our first mountain hike in the Adirondacks of the season.
ReplyDeleteI am beginning to think I need to send you a check for such good medical advice. Really, I have written myself a note to discuss with my allergy nurse how much more of my serum that .I have I am really ready to stop the shots. It would free up my Wednesday mornings as well. My dr recently moved his office and it isn’t nearly as convenient as it used to be. I would be delighted to be able to take care of things with my Tylenol. Unfortunately I cannot take nsaids. But the weatherman actually said that the pollen season is mostly over now here Yahoo!
DeleteI'm glad you have more energy and have been able to do more cooking. Home cooked meals really are the best and tastiest.
ReplyDeleteThe Commonplace Book sounds intriguing. I will look up info about it.
I hope your allergies get better!
And Happy Mother's Day to you!
ReplyDeleteI'm a little late visiting for FFF. Belated Happy Mother's Day to you! We just got our planters planted last week--it makes such a difference in brightening things up.
ReplyDeleteI have heard of commonplace books but have not started one. I do have favorite quotes in computer files.
I need to get back to from-scratch cooking. With just two of us, we get take-out or convenience meals a lot, but I know they are not the healthiest.
How fun to have you planters all done and the flowers showing their colors. For the first time ever I have not even purchased any flowers yet. Time is getting away from me this year in just about every area. Hope your allergies improve this week. It's bad here right now for allergens and then the forest fire smoke on top of it is really wreaking havoc with some people. Glad you are finding more energy to home cook. And cheering you on through the tough therapy.
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