Get well Christine

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Hey Christine, you have been very quiet the last few days. I hope you are starting to feel a little better. There are some nasty viruses out there at the moment. Take your time to heal, and hope we will see you online again soon.

Cheers

Louise

Thank you Louise, Ellen, Kit and everyone else! This was a particularly nasty bug – or rather two viruses strung together. I was just getting over an upper respiratory infection when I woke up in the middle of the night Tues/Wed with horrible V-D. It wouldn’t have been so strange if my granddaughter and daughter hadn’t had the exact same sequence a few days before me. The sequence of the head cold then several days later the explosive v-d seemed almost time-released! I’ve had more than my share of colds and flues in my life but never anything like this. I told a friend I was envisioning an evil scientist working in the basement of some genetics lab stringing viruses together with nanotechnology. My husband has been in bed since Thursday SO SICK with the respiratory thing, and I’m praying he doesn’t get the other. Oh…I long for a truly natural world where we aren’t so packed together like sardines.

It’s pretty disheartening. Seems I had finally outgrown the extremely poor resistance I’d always had to bugs as a child – my forties were so healthy. But here I am again…sick every few months. I HAVE TO find my way through this because I have a beautiful family who need me to be well, as well as this precious community – not to mention a revolution in women’s health - to keep on track.

Susan has referred me to a well-known herbalist and there are a couple of people here in town I want to see as well. I do believe my adrenals are wrung out and that is a major source of my general weakness. We tend to be workaholics around here and I know I’ve been making our afternoon tea stronger and stronger as the years have progressed. Then we power into the evening on various projects. That’s what we LIKE to do, though, and “being mellow” just doesn’t cut it. But being sick is no fun either…. :-(

Anyway, thanks for the rant. Like I’ve told others in the past, I just want to be another woman on the forum and have it be okay that I’m not perfect nor have all the answers to life’s dilemmas.

Kisses and Hugs,

Christine

I'm so glad that you're feeling better, Christine. It's good to know that you're on the mend! Just take it easy and don't try to do too much at first. Take care...

Goldfinch

I do sympathise with the V-D thing. Our whole family had it one after the other about 6-7 weeks ago. NOT FUN! You can't explain to a 16 month old what's happening either and she was really frightened every time she vomited. It is still going around my son's school and I am just glad we have got that one out of the way. Mind you being the winter season there are plenty more nasties on the way. I have never been so ill with colds and things since having kids.

Glad you are feeling better.

A

it's that horrible time of year when everyone seems to get sick as we transition to winter....not fun! glad you are mending though, but do look after yourself and i hope you find the herbalist etc helpful!

kiki

You've somehow managed to allow for the creation of a community where nobody pretends to have all the answers. Isn't that refreshing!

I hope the next days bring a deep healing for both you and Lanny, Christine, physically, emotionally and spiritually. The responsibilities you've undertaken will be there when your energy for them returns. Take care.

Warm regards,
Ellen

So sweet of you all! I'm taking it very easy...it's so nice to slow down and I think I may have to make it a way of life. Hubby is up on the couch! :-)