stop getting sick

There is something about the summer heat that helps me.

I am assuming myself healed. And, I am planning a regimen of diet and exercise that I hope will continue to make me feel healthy and alive.

I’m feeling pretty good. I think I really needed the little holiday, and I feel better about finishing off the year. I pray that I don’t get another cold, now that I’m back working with the kids everyday…

but for now, mostly healthy.

on and off for a couple of years i’ve been having uncontrollable itching on my hands, and less frequently my feet. I kept thinking it was soap in public restrooms for my hands, and was just bewildered by the feet.

Today, it happened again, and so i looked up itchy hands.

that is when I found the link to hypothyroidism. I am always cold, my digestive system works much slower than must. I have often uncomfortable cramping both during my period, and at other times. I have dealt on and off with depression my entire life, and then there is this excruciating itching!

I told diane, and she asked if I looked up hypochondria, too. I know it was a joke, so It didn’t bother me, but until I get a doctor, and get tested for normal ailments like allergies. etc, I’m not going to have an answer for all the minor discomforts.

I just wonder if there is one particular thing responsible.. or if there are a great number of smaller things that i will need to change.

I really like the new 100% juice that is part of the V8 splash series. Strawberry banana. I don’t even like bananas, but I think the potassium is helping, and this is really delicious

we’ll just see how the summer begins. taking a break from work right now, to focus on relaxing… so far we’ve been out late at night twice, and tonight we have to celebrate someone else’s birthday. It’s not all bad, but I just don’t usually throw off my body clock this way… I’m looking forward to this part of vacation being done, so we can just have lazy evenings watching movies, and maybe fit in a pre-noon hike with pastries and coffee on Monte Sano.

my cough has significantly diminished, and happens rarely now… my congestion is just occaisional, probably from minor allergies.

now it’s just this awful sounding cough, and a bit of drainage and congestion, but all in all I’m feeling healthier.

but I bought a vacuum yesterday, maybe this new friend will help eliminate allergens in the home, and I will reduce the congestion, throat tickle, exhaustion, etc…

I’ve just been eating a lot healthier and taking vitamins. I’ve also stopped working at a daycare, so I’m sure that definitely helped!!! XD

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then I have a coughing fit, or I suddenly get very very congested. It is hard to tell sometimes when I’m sick and when I am dealing with newly acquired allergies. There has been a whole lot of pollen, so much that you can pick a handful of it up and trickle it through your fingers like flour. (I actually haven’t been doing this, just trying to give you a visual.)

eat more fresh vegetables.

who have week immune systems that catch everything, and hand it on to me, b.c I’m the one wiping noses, tears, and saliva.

I have been sick more in this past year than anytime of my life.

It seems that I will just start getting better from whatever head or chest cold I’ve got when along comes a holiday, the toddlers go out of town, pick up some other sort of disease and so generously pass it on to me.

I cried today. I was feeling sorry for myself.. and it was b.c I am tired of feeling sick. I finally got the guts up to call into work last thursday, and now I feel like I can’t do it again. This is the primary reason I have doubts about this job… it affects everything outside of work, too. I feel like I’m lucky to have one healthy week a month.