back, and cloudier than ever

i have a terrible memory. short and long term.

evidence long term: a lovely young lady reached out to me via facebook today. it took me a little while longer than would be comfortable to remember how we knew each other (though I did know right away that we did)... proudly... I figured it out, but I still don't remember how we met. I'm really lousy at this stuff. it's embarassing.

evident short term: i daydream about this blog a lot. things i will write, themes i can incorporate. i thought briefly about becoming the rachel maddow show recap blog because that's basically all the news i get in a day and i find it all fascinating and am so happy with myself when I don't agree with her 100% (i like to have my own brain and all), but that seems like a lot of work and I can't remember any of the other ideas.

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now!

I was sick a few weeks ago with the flu (hey! i just remembered something I was going to post about... i helped a friend through labor. gotta share the story. some other time now. exhausted. you'll see why in a minute). The STOMACH flu. ewww... no vomiting, just the other end. and it burned like hell. i resisted medical intervention like it would have killed me to do otherwise. i stayed in bed and rested and drank fluids and ate bland and binding foods and waited it out. it took 4 days.

this week on Thursday I woke up feeling a little swollen in the throat. by midday my joints felt like they were melting and I knew fever was brewing. i made a fleeting stop at the desk of my at-work natural healing friend/confidant and got a bottle of fresh echinacea tincture. I downed several dropperfulls, finished what I was doing at work, got out of a few things i was supposed to be doing, and went home. by that evening I found myself driving to the Kaiser urgent care and celebrating (on the inside) when I was prescribed antibiotics for
"pharyngitis that probably wasn't strep but probably was bacterial." Did I mention that at some point that afternoon my fever was 102.4

I spent the entire next day in bed. I took the antibiotics but was still leaning on sleep and fluid for comfort... well, no more. a trip to cvs this morning led me straight to the hard core, behind the counter, pseudoepedrine containing stuff and boy is it good... and boy is it oh so bad too. When you spend nearly 3 years 99% chemical free that stuff hits you hard. I'm in a crazy daze.

and loving it. (shhh)

back to nature on Monday, promise.

xoxo