Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Healthy and Balanced or Not

Hi All
We are given these magnificent mechanisms called our bodies and tend to overlook just our special they are. Our bodies perform effortless and all we have to do is give them the food, water and rest. We might even give them exercise and sunlight or not and they continue to function their functions without any effort on our part. Healthy and balanced, functioning at optimal capacity.
And then something happens to throw the system out of balance. P-R-O-B-L-E-M. You see once a system is out of balance its very hard to get back to that optimum functioning level. Case in point, I have been having sleeping problems. Always a light sleeper, now I couldn't reach REM (Rapid Eye Movement) state. REM state  is when your conscious mind is totally at rest (one of our big three). 
This can cause real problems such as  excessive daytime sleepiness, teeth grinding, exploding head syndrome (Walking up in the night hearing loud noises), restless leg syndrome, snoring, sleep apnea (stop breathing), and a host of other ailments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_disorder.



Since each of us is unique, you have to have a correct diagnosis of your systems. Not always as easy as it sounds, so you may sometimes have to get several especially if you're a female. The first thing you have to do is document the symptoms. In my case a sleep study was done. The study wasn't half way done and I was put on a cpap machine. A man in the iron mask contraption made of rubber (?) which forced air into my lungs as I had stopped breathing several times. After being placed on the cpap which forced air into my lungs I slept peacefully through the night. I have to wait for a specialist to read and share the results with my doctor. A residual benefit of this session was that for the following two nights I sleep peacefully. I also realized that my pain level from my arthritis was lessened after the session. To me this shows that my entire body was showing the stress of oxygen deprivation.

I don't take drugs, unless I can't find any other alternative which rarely happens. I can't begin to tell you how hard it was to punch out the Pinterest series. We're always told the body can function so many days without food and water. Yet air is an absolute necessity. 

There are many was the body can fall out of balance and to get it back to optimal operating capacity once out of balance is a challenge. Sometimes you never regain that optimal balance. The best avenue is to do your best to stay at the optimal level for you. Eat the right foods, drink water (coke, energy drinks and sugar enhance drinks do not included in the count), if you don't like water squeeze some lemon, lime or other natural fruit into it to change up the taste. Get those 8 glasses a day in. Get out and walk a couple a blocks a day. The sunshine is great for giving you vitamin D and is a great mood lifter.


If you have had to work on regaining your balance please leave a comment sharing what happened and what you did to regain your balance. You never know who needs to hear your story.


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Michelle
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Being Hospitalized Is No Fun

Yeah Yeah I know you're supposed to take care of yourself, but I like most Mothers and small business owners end up putting self last. Not wise. I put off going to the dentist and a tooth abscessed. The jaw started swelling Thursday evening. Friday morning I started calling dentist offices, of course on Veteran's Day everything was closed. Saturday morning 7:30 a.m. I went to emergency. Think Eddie Murphy in the Nutty Professor Makeup with a whole chew of tobacco in one jaw. They gave me antibiotics and sent me home with the admonishment if it was getting better to come back. Monday I was swollen even larger now add in the throat. I walked into emergency at 7:30 am and was admitted, they immediately went to work. Strangely , I really didn't have much pain.


I also have hyper thyroid ism, which can be tricky to treat, that they were equally concerned about. A normal function thyroid reading is between 1-5. Mine was 23 so they were very concerned. Which explains why I have had no energy. The oral surgeon came and saw me and wanted to wait a day before making a decision. He came back the next day and because the antibiotics seemed to be doing the job decided not to operate. (Thank you Allah). I was released Wednesday. I have to take these huge pills which are the antibiotics. I have a 7:30 appointment at the dentist this morning to have the tooth pulled per the oral surgeon's recommendation. I'm still hoping it doesn't have to be pulled now that the antibiotics are doing their job. I still haven't had any pain that's why I keep hoping the tooth can be saved.

So , the moral of the stories kiddies is you have to make the time to take care of you. Yes, I know its costs time and money to do preventive care but aren't we worth it?

This goes out especially to the Mommies, you can't put you last. As Mommy goes so goes the family, you got to take care of you.

Take care.

The Amazon
Michelle