So I was on an upswing for a while. Famous last words.
I was getting ready to attempt a Risky Midwinter Travel scheme to visit my family.
Shuttle+ airport+ plane= 5 hrs each way. What a great idea! My dad's 72nd birthday, I did have hopes.
When suddenly.... Shingles!!
I thought that was what Old People got. Well Happy 50th apparently Here I am. Shinglesville.
At first I thought I could go anyway, then I realized that merely packing had worn me out completely. Cancelled trip at last minute.
GRATITUDE PRACTICE:
I have family even if I can't visit them in person right now
I only got 4 baby shingles and the pain was not intense like some people get
I'm able to take an antiviral
After about a week I feel a lot less exhausted than I did at first
I know, I said B-12 and instead it's been Shingles.?
Here's the B-12 part.
I had been feeling so much better that, La De Da, I'd kind of skipped the 2x/week B-12 shots. Because really Who Wants to (2 years into it.) Can we please be done already?
It was fine for awhile and then I noticed I was going kind of crazy. Weird symptoms.
Restless legs/ insomnia despite being super wiped out tired at night.
Waking up every 2 hours on the dot.
Dry eyes and lips despite drinking enough
Prickly nerves
Brain= doesn't--- work
Can't sleep can't do anything but lie in a heap under blankets
Finally I remembered B-12... Had a shot last night and
SLEPT FOR 5 HOURS STRAIGHT!!!
Everything else seems to have straightened out. I'm hoping I'm back to my regular baseline of feeling only Generally crummy and exhausted instead of Majorly.
I have no idea why my body isn't absorbing enough B12 from food or from the methyl B12 supplements.
But gotta stick to the Stick In the Butt plan for a while more.
In other health notes I'm trying to get to qi gong class more frequently. I signed up last fall and only made it to about half of the weekly sessions. I do think the practice is super helpful and more importantly, something I can do.
I"m also trying to get to weekly Gentle Yoga.
Is winter ever long.
BOOK RECOMMENDATION
Hillary Mantel "Giving Up the Ghost"
Memoir. Wicked good writing about this business of Having A Body.
I was getting ready to attempt a Risky Midwinter Travel scheme to visit my family.
Shuttle+ airport+ plane= 5 hrs each way. What a great idea! My dad's 72nd birthday, I did have hopes.
When suddenly.... Shingles!!
I thought that was what Old People got. Well Happy 50th apparently Here I am. Shinglesville.
At first I thought I could go anyway, then I realized that merely packing had worn me out completely. Cancelled trip at last minute.
GRATITUDE PRACTICE:
I have family even if I can't visit them in person right now
I only got 4 baby shingles and the pain was not intense like some people get
I'm able to take an antiviral
After about a week I feel a lot less exhausted than I did at first
I know, I said B-12 and instead it's been Shingles.?
Here's the B-12 part.
I had been feeling so much better that, La De Da, I'd kind of skipped the 2x/week B-12 shots. Because really Who Wants to (2 years into it.) Can we please be done already?
It was fine for awhile and then I noticed I was going kind of crazy. Weird symptoms.
Restless legs/ insomnia despite being super wiped out tired at night.
Waking up every 2 hours on the dot.
Dry eyes and lips despite drinking enough
Prickly nerves
Brain= doesn't--- work
Can't sleep can't do anything but lie in a heap under blankets
Finally I remembered B-12... Had a shot last night and
SLEPT FOR 5 HOURS STRAIGHT!!!
Everything else seems to have straightened out. I'm hoping I'm back to my regular baseline of feeling only Generally crummy and exhausted instead of Majorly.
I have no idea why my body isn't absorbing enough B12 from food or from the methyl B12 supplements.
But gotta stick to the Stick In the Butt plan for a while more.
In other health notes I'm trying to get to qi gong class more frequently. I signed up last fall and only made it to about half of the weekly sessions. I do think the practice is super helpful and more importantly, something I can do.
I"m also trying to get to weekly Gentle Yoga.
Is winter ever long.
BOOK RECOMMENDATION
Hillary Mantel "Giving Up the Ghost"
Memoir. Wicked good writing about this business of Having A Body.