RE: Diet Progress and Country Cottage (WIP)
Is the painting is complete? It's beautiful! Seeing it after two weeks and looks completely different from the last post around two weeks ago.
Coming back to the main topic of the post. You really have a lot of strength @reddust. You've stuck to the regimen of a strict diet and walking all on your own for all these months - I doubt that I'll be able to do that.
You also mention that everybody caught a bug in June and you had to manage and help everybody through it. Although I am in Europe at the moment but I and my roomie too have caught a bad case of infection in our throats. We both are running a fever and croaking like frogs. I wonder if it is like a global thing - everybody getting sick in June.
Apart from this I never knew that your sciatica symptoms might have been related to an L5 injury and I am really sorry to hear that. Glad that it healed up nicely. Although you still experience sciatica symptoms - back injuries have this weird way of staying with you........
PS: As usual you look great in the photo :-)
No @hascash the painting isn't finished. The picture in my head does not go with the painting, I need more details...hahaha.
If you want to stay healthy as you age you will need discipline and the ability to change habits. What works for you when you are younger may not work for you as you age unless you can modify and adapt to your aging body. My age group is dying before they are in their 60s from all sorts of sedentary disease they could have avoided spending fortunes and avoid needless suffering from a little research and staying active. My strength and energy have diminished, but I move and workout no matter how I feel. I don't wait until I feel like working out, I have a routine I stick too no matter what. It works for me!
The L5 put enough pressure on the nerves that control the reflex in my lower colon, and I couldn't poop, I could have died! Plus all the reflexes left my right leg, and I had to drag it along, lifting the leg with my hip muscles. I was very poor at the time and couldn't afford to go to a doctor for rehab, they wanted to operate on me. I did some research and found out operations on our backs disks have poor outcomes. This was back in 2003, and I could get online and do some in-depth analysis, I found walking meditation and yoga helped me rehab my back and also bring back my reflexes in my gut and leg! I am almost 100% healed, but it took ten years to become pain-free. I can use pain as a meditation object without breaking out now. Life is mostly painful from my experience, and I don't want to react to it negatively anymore. That's where meditation has come in handy.
I look great? hahaha, thank you I am feeling great too. <3
Holy shit! That is too much pain for me to understand. I can only try to guess............
I understand that graveness of your injuries and illness will obviously force you to be more serious about your health but in the end it would take more resolve than most can muster.............. RESPECT!
The only thing worse than this kind of back pain is having a kid (18 years of suffering) I had 3 plus a bonus kid I didn't have to push out into this world (stepdaughter) hahaha
Pancrase and gallbladder attack are the worst, way worse than a migraine, which is part of the attacks (I drank too much homemade wine). I made my own wine back in 2013, like 12 gallons and became a functional drunk for one year! I also gained a lot of weight. That's when I figured out alcohol and sugar are not my friends. We had a bunch of blackberries and grapes on our little hobby farm, and I became an expert at making wine and gardening while drunk. I had 1/2 acre garden and sold about 100 pullets a year from incubator to a young hen. My chickens paid for themselves, and we had at least 70 roos we butchered and canned for the winter.
I am an expert on how to deal with pain and not go crazy.
Live and learn that's all we can do here on this freaky planet and life is very painful so learn how to deal with it correctly! Don't do drugs <3