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Today I want to express my gratitude for our internal (eternal) healing ability.  That ability that is inherent in each of us to heal the dis-ease that manifests in our bodies.

Looking at the past month purely from an external view, I can say that in the last week of April my dear hubby came home from work with a cough.  Then it continued for about a week.  After a week of him coughing on me all night long,  my immune system must have given up, because I ended up being out for most of the first week of May.

I used to try to “tough it out” at work – going in, even when the prudent thing to do was to stay home and not share the illness with the rest of the office.  Well, I’ve gotten smart enough to understand that when your body says “enough!!”, it means stop everything and simply rest.  So I did for 3 full days.  Then I went back to work on Friday, but the weekend turned out to be lousy.  But I was well enough to go back to work for a full week.

Except, then my body blew up at me again – and this time I was out for 5 work days, surrounding a weekend.  I got antibiotics from my doctor, but it still took 3 days of those plus rest to get to a place where, for about an hour, I felt like myself.

The incessant coughing (and feeling like someone was kickboxing my ribs) continued.  I had obviously had a “relapse”.  About this time the Dear Hubby began to come down ill again, too.

So then there were 2 sick folks at home – and neither in shape to take care of themselves, let alone the other!!  We slept alot (in different rooms since the coughing of one keep the other from sleeping) drank LOTS of liquids, ate vitamin C and ate next to nothing else.  This went on for about 8 days.

Then Saturday I started feeling better, and Sunday I made the local crafts fair that I missed the previous week due to the Humboldt Crud Maximized (Yep, I did fine, made enough money to make it worth my while and had fun, too).

On Monday Dear Hubby and I went to Dry Lagoon and sat on the beach looking for agates.  It was so lovely and warm, soon I was laying in the sand looking for agates!!  I did find about 12 – all the size of my little finger nail, but that was my best “catch” yet!!

And Tuesday, for the first time in literally a month, I began to fully feel like myself – Whoopee!!

I don’t ever want to go through whatever that was again in my life.  A friend tells me her 85 year old grandmother had the same thing and ended up with several fractured ribs from all the intense coughing.  That doesn’t surprise me at all!!

So, I am exquisitely grateful that my body told me to stop and take things easy (too bad I didn’t hear that message earlier!!).  I am very, very grateful that my body was able to heal itself so beautifully.  I am grateful for everyone who helped during this time, I’m grateful that people liked my jewelry enough to pay me so they could take it home, and I’m especially grateful that I finally get to sleep with my Dear Husband again – something that was very difficult while we were sick. 

So, by the way, where did May go???

Katie

P.S.  In looking back at my last entry, I can see how the stress and dis-stress made everything a little more crazy, and perhaps my body was reacting to how this person was playing me in their game.  It’s okay, I still love them, I just don’t really have the time to try to help them out.  Once they’ve figured out what they really want, they can figure out how that makes them happy.  In the meantime, I’m going to go relax with my Dear Husband (DH), what a nice reward!!