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  14 years ago

  You have had a few challanges lately havent you!My carefree acceptance of good health was challenged a few months ago when out of the blue ended up in hospital for 6 days hooked up to all sorts of drips and machines when my guts decided they werent happy..It really knocked me about physically and mentally...I thought I could look after myself through rest and diet....3 more attacks later, I am going to see a specialist dietician next week for extra guidence I obviously need! lolNo longer do I take my health for granted..needs to be worked on constantly..Surprisingly I have discovered some tender loving does work wonders.....even if it is just a caress, a gentle touch, a battery of kisses.....they all get the good endorphines flowing!The energy level rises and the pain abates for a while..And I believe you have a wonderful man on hand to administer this treatment as required

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  14 years ago

  You have had a few challanges lately havent you!My carefree acceptance of good health was challenged a few months ago when out of the blue ended up in hospital for 6 days hooked up to all sorts of drips and machines when my guts decided they werent happy..It really knocked me about physically and mentally...I thought I could look after myself through rest and diet....3 more attacks later, I am going to see a specialist dietician next week for extra guidence I obviously need! lolNo longer do I take my health for granted..needs to be worked on constantly..Surprisingly I have discovered some tender loving does work wonders.....even if it is just a caress, a gentle touch, a battery of kisses.....they all get the good endorphines flowing!The energy level rises and the pain abates for a while..And I believe you have a wonderful man on hand to administer this treatment as required

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  14 years ago

  After 3-4 years of study we have now learned, we can make a income from anywhere in the world given a computer and internet and work as many or little hours as desired, yipeeeee!!   On health issues, we start to reliase what the aging process is about and everything cannot be fixed, The last 2 years we have been thru bowell operations, pain specialists investigating pain implants, second opinions and now off to a spine surgeon. Any cutting of our bodies is not good. Things are not bad enough for knee and hip replacements for us but we can feel the joints and the specialists tell us eventually that is where we will be with replacement parts.   But anyway, we try and stay active positive things to look forward goals still being set...Like we ordered our new caravan from USA and next week we should hear from Canberra with our permit nxt week......yipeeee! Looking forward to driving the highways etc stopping where ever Ummmmm wonder what sexy couples we are going meet on our travels.

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  14 years ago

  We do so many things when we are young without thought to further consequences. Even as little as five years ago the body responded differently. I have known for 20 years that I will eventually need a knee replacement and this last winter has been the hardest. Finally diagnosed with osteo-arthritis in my right knee a few weeks ago. My fault for working so physically hard in the shearing sheds for so many years aparantly. I dont like taking pain killers so I have increased my time at the gym in order to try and build up the muscles around the knee but it is not working. Luckily I have enjoyed fabulous health all my life and now is no exception. I eat mainly organic foods, start most days with the juice of a freshly squeezed lemon with honey and warm water. Takes all the mucus and clears the system. I also drink a lot of vege juices that I make myself. Raw food is good. The less food you actually cook, the higher the nutrient content. One other thing I do is take a multi vitamin...every single day. Listen to your body...rest. Especially from pnuemonia

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  14 years ago

  So pleased to hear you are finally on the mend honey. I'm sorry it's been such a rough time for you. All good here. Did really well on my last assignment which i'm really happy about but other than that, work, study, sleep and no fun Fun will come later and goodness knows I've had more than my fair share. When a bad time either personally or health wise hits we always run away on a plane somewhere fabulous. I'm a kind of "flight" person anywhere. It's my MO to get on a plane to the other side of the planet. Better to do it together though. A lovely view and some spa treatments works miracles. A change of scenery. Rest up honey xx goodgrl

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  14 years ago

  Geez i love to whinge, no seriously better out than in I say, it is great for ones health (plus asking people to pray for you, whether you believe in god or not or for them to wish you good health and think of you often)   Q1: Anyhoo September was a VERY frustrating month... I took a week of annual leave to paint the house (inside walls), pull up carpet and floating boards and scrap the floor myself to save 2K, get wallpaper up, paint the skirting boards myself to save $ too (little did I know they'd be an unrully 5.5m long and be a challenge to figure out how do get it done b4 they were nailed into the walls as the point was to not get the paint on anything but the skirting boards, i am clumsy).... anyhoo, my toddler gets asthma we go to emergency for 24 hours then i have to stay up another 72 hours pretty much giving her ventalin ever 3 hours, she missed the whole week of daycare and me the whole week of annual leave. So i go to work for a week, ask to take the following week off to try again (even thou my 75 year old dad saved me and pretty much painted most of the house with me running around attempting to do some sort of proper effort?!). So finish work for the week, we are all healthy, then 2am toddler starts vomiting, 5am i start vomiting, then it spread to her daddy, granny and my mate that was coming over to help me with the very awkward 5.5m skirting boards, with the painting and the strategy of where and how?! so i had 3 mates tag team babysit for 2 hours each over a saturday, while a 4th friend came and helped with my starting point of managing to fit half the skirts down as they needed to be painted THAT day.... so all this running around and vomiting in buckets and sleep deprivation has really put me behind, only 2 days left till the floor men come and i need the skirts done and dry and ALL the floor scraped. I'd done the main area but as i hadn't done this before, i found the smaller the rooms and the more door frames the bigger the job, i ended up on my hands and knees scraping ALL NIGHT monday with my little bankers lamp attached to an extension cord following me around coz i was going cross eyed from the darkness, dust and stress of OMG this could all be a waste if i don't FINISH!! Plus i inhaled soooo much cement and plaster and paint dust that i thought i might need to go to emergency myself for some oxygen for my lungs! The floor men arrive, i am a headcase, they get started, i ask them to WORK SLOW, rang my 75yr old pa, he said why didn't you ring earlier?! i already felt bad about all the painting and the fact he also, on his own put half my furniture in my garage. so 3 hours travel times later up he comes and starts working, from Tuesday lunch until Saturday morning, more than 15 hour days, i couldn't even keep him tied to a chair to stop him, i needed nanna naps to cope, which was shameful. Oh and then me and the toddler got and have the flu, how pathetic! Q2. This father of mine on the other hand has broken nearly every bone in his body from rough army days and merchant navy escapades, nearly killed himself taking 2 lots of cats 9 spare lives, after electrocution, glass in his eye, months in hospital from violence, alcoholic, scurvy, all sorts of construction accidents, has the top of his middle finger missing thou (he can’t flip the bird as clearly on that hand lol!) and half his thumb sideways sworn off, so he needs a thumb beanie in winter as the bones and nerves are a little sorta exposed?! His back went out regularly which meant 6 weeks flat on his back on the floor until it mends enough for functioning (all the soft stuff between the vertebrates has squished out long ago). His shoulder then went, took meticulous exercises for a year to get that working, under teh knife was a hard NO from his point of view until the duker c3 bowel cancer, had to cut out bits of his intestine and limp nodes carried the big C, so he had a 1/15 chance, the 100% hermit atheist told anyone who knew of his cancer, to please pray for him, cheers mate! Basically his life motto to move it or lose it, all he has is time, so there is no need to hurry, just keep trucking and be thankful for when you can, because once you lose the positive attitude, and the will to live life to the fullest of YOUR CAPABILITIES, which is pretty grime during and after 6 months of Kemo. Then you can still on a minutes notice bail your daughter who has no idea about home renovation and timings, whilst balancing a sick toddler and attempting to time box work and everything expecting it to work like pre-toddler days lol!! So as much as i whinge and moan and complain, i just look at my father and hate genetics for having not given me that 100% soldiering on, no matter what and somehow finding the will to show this merr, happy go lucky positive attitude moreso as the times just feel too hard to bare! Lol! Sometimes it seems that we have to go through a lot of crap to really feel a sense of achievement and have the FULL rights to lapping up those times when you FINALLY gets those well deserved spoils in life!? Why isn’t it EVERY DAY?!@??!?!? Hehe My dad always says, you can’t take a break from doing nothing, nor take a holiday when you don’t again do any work hehe look forward and wait till the ebs and flows go from down back to up, it all should balance out in the end?

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  14 years ago

  Thank you everyone for their thoughts.   Boob - Yep sept was an awful month for you - sorry but I actually sat in bed and giggled thoughout the whole story and your dad sounds amazing. Laughter is great medicine.   Good - I am very much a fight person - have been my whole life and it has made me stronger.   Fiona - def agree about the healthy eating part - have lost so much weight in the last 3 weeks that my boobies have all but disappeared!   I was seriously depressed last week and my confidence was shot but am now determined to get better and do what everyone tells me to do for a change!!! And we have silverchain coming in each day for the next six weeks to help me get better.   Pusscat xxx (so upset about Dan Carter's groin injury)

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