Thanks all!! Had a great remainder of the weekend, except my cough got worse and my voice is now TOTALLY gone. Couldn't even sing at Saturday's concert. But it was still an awesome show and a lot of fun.
Ellie I didn't know that about your son being born to Thunder Road - that is so cool!! Good song to start off his life.
OMG that would have been an AWESOME show. I am jealous. I think I've seen clips of that concert.
On the health/medical - honestly I have set that stuff aside more than I should have recently. Still generally being healthy but not focusing enough on it. I eat low carb most of the time so by virtue of that I'm fairly close to gluten free as well. Been 'cheating' too much on that lately though. Actually now that you say that, I wonder if that's been a contributor to my latest "funk" a bit. Not TOO low, but just not feeling totally like myself. I was blaming Spring allergies but diet could be a huge factor also.
SD Thanks!! Boy it's hard to keep that detachment thing in mind - in ALL things. Thanks for the reminder. Letting go of control is so hard but so critical.
Thanks for the cheerleading, too!! Yes, very important to let myself be me and ENJOY it when I am. Worrying less about the outcome, I am definitely working on. Refusing to hide or hold onto things is an excellent place to be. I need to strive for that, as well.
Love that quote, thanks!!
ST Wow that is great stuff! No worries about "hijacking," I don't mind a bit, and it all applies to me too. I think I often see myself in a pretty judgmental way - i.e. judge myself far more harshly than most others would judge me. Good reminder that changing that internal perception goes a long way towards changing my overall attitude.
Michelle Thanks - yes, great weekend!
------------- Saturday as I mentioned Mom and I went to the concert... awesome show again!! I couldn't sing along since I had no voice, but I did at last dance my butt off. The Sacto show is likely going down as one of his legendary ones, very cool. San Jose was great but Sac was just WOW.
It was a long drive home so I got back around 2:00 and there were a ton of people at the house. Sort of an impromptu party H decided to have, I guess. It was kind of odd. There was that sleazy guy I mentioned a few times who brought some girl other than his girlfriend, another guy who I like pretty well, and his girlfriend who just got back from some gig at the Playboy mansion. Apparently a bunch of other people were going to come over but flaked. Everyone was all excited that "the lady of the house" got home and H gave me a huge hug and kiss, then they put on dance music and H kept wanting me to dance with him. They were teasing me saying they wanted to throw me a "concert after party." I couldn't talk at all, so good thing they were into music.
We didn't get to bed until almost 5 AM... slept until about 2:30 on Sunday (off and on because I had a horrible cough that kept waking me up). I couldn't believe it when we got up, my voice was still completely and totally gone - and it still is today! I'm sure it will get better but it's kind of freaking me out. So no, we haven't had the talk yet. I finally psych myself up for it and then I can't talk.. sheesh. I think it's the universe telling me not to put things off next time!
I've tried every home remedy I could find today and nothing has worked so far. Hopefully the combination plus not talking all day will help by tomorrow. It's really screwing me up at work! If anyone has any miracle cures for Laryngitis I am all ears. So far I'm gargling warm salt water, drinking lots of water, boiling water on the stove to make the house really humid, and drinking this icky "tea" made of hot water, cayenne pepper, apple cider vinger, honey, and ginger. It tastes about as nasty as it sounds... doesn't seem to help my voice that much but it does stop me from coughing for awhile so I'm still trying it.
Hope everyone's doing well, I'll check in more soon.
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Just have a minute to respond, but what about plain old orange juice? For me, OJ clears up that ick that keeps me from being able to talk. Either that or tea with lemon and honey. Avoid dairy. And then, maybe, you'll just have to rest your voice a few days. Not a bad thing.
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I agree that since the cause of your laryngitis is from over working your vocal chords, that probably the best remedy is resting them. There is probably inflammation as well. If you lived here, I'd give ya my juice!
and if you take out some of the ginger, it will probably help with the taste. that or the vinegar. use more lemons and honey
it is kinda funny though that you lost your voice and your suppose to have a convo.
I also think it was very cool about the party. maybe your H was saying a lot of good things about you before you got home. that's what it sounds like to me anyways. did you end up dancing with him???
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ST - yep, danced with him, of course. just fast pop songs, nothing "romantic" or anything but it was fun.
So.. unfortunately looks like the reason the throat thing lingered is it was the start to the flu (or else the most butt-kicking cold I've ever had).
I got so dizzy and disoriented last night I actually got scared. I had taken some cough syrup (to try and help heal my throat since I also had a dry cough), and about 2 hours later could barely stand up. I freaked thinking I had overdosed on it by accident, but I read the package over and over and compared it to Nyquil. I've even taken the same ingredient before so I know that wasn't it, but I've never had a bug hit me that hard.
H was very sweet about it. He saw me shift from "no voice" to feeling really, really bad and was cuddling me on his lap, took my temperature, helped me into bed, etc. It was really nice.
All night I was exhausted but couldn't quite sleep... uuugh. So I spent most of the night in this completely foggy state just trying not to think too much. Finally slept for maybe a couple of hours and then woke up extremely dizzy, fever, no voice (still), awful stomach cramps, cough is worse - oh and I have pinkeye now (doc thinks it's all part of the same virus). sheeeeesh. I have never in my adult life been sick so many times as I have in the last year or so, but this is far worse than the other stuff I've had.
So.. I've gotten used to the taste of the apple cider vinegar and that seems to help my throat. SD - for whatever reason my stomach can't handle OJ (even the low acid stuff), but I did get some Emergen-C a couple weeks back - thanks for the reminder, I've been drinking that all day.
Thanks again all.. glad this thing hit after the really awesome weekend, at least.
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wow no kidding on having it hit AFTER your concert.
I can't believe you have pink eye too! I wonder where in the world you picked up all of this. you poor thing! I'm sure your body was vulnerable to the virus since you've been working so much, and I'm sure you haven't gotten to rest like you should.
can I pretty please send you my juice?? please?? please?? I want you to get better!!!!
glad to hear the vinegar stuff isn't so bad, I've tasted that before... blech! I have heard though that people use it to help lose weight.. fyi if your still wanting to lose more. (I think you look great though).
take care and rest!
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"It is far better 2 choose humility & change oneself, than 2 wait in vain trying 2 chang someone else."
From what the doc says the same virus is likely causing everything (even the laryngitis although I'm sure that was worsened by the concert). Apparently this is pretty typical for what's been going around here lately.
I just found out that my Grandma's in the hospital with pneumonia too (ambulance took her today). This is my mom's mom - my dad's mom who I saw at Thanksgiving is actually doing better. Yikes!!! My poor Mom is freaking out. I feel really bad I can't go visit but this virus is the LAST thing grandma needs obviously. I know my Mom could only hear maybe 50% of what I was trying to tell her so I just sent her email letting her know I'll do anything I can from here and that this isn't in my lungs at all. She mentioned something about not being able to handle two of us with pneumonia at the same time and I'm sure my voice sounds like I'm at death's door. I feel so bad for her.. she just needs a break!
Hey ST on the juice - can you send me your page link again? I think I remember you saying there was a new formula that didn't have the glucosamine in it? With how sick I have been lately, I am tempted to try it.
Yeah it's funny the vinegar grossed me out at first and now I actually kinda like it. I forgot about it being used for weight loss, thanks for the reminder (I do want to lose about 25-30 more pounds, but thanks for the compliment ). I'll have to look into that. I've heard of it being used as a natural cure for GERD too - seems backwards to me but who knows, maybe it works. It's not doing much for my voice but it keeps me from coughing for awhile, so I'll take that.
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Wow, what a crazy way to finish out the weekend. I hope you can take the rest of the week off and rest up! And I second the plus - at least it hit after the concerts!
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Yes, not a fun way to finish the weekend/start the week. I STILL have no voice whatsoever but I'm more coherent at least. I'm working a little bit from home, getting what I can done. Not being able to talk is wiping out most of what I had to do this week though, so a lot has been pushed to next week. The rest is definitely helping. My boss is talking for me in a couple of critical meetings that I couldn't reschedule so I have to write all that up for him tomorrow.
Found out that my grandma has all kinda of really bad health issues - very sad. I guess she's refused to go to a doc for almost 10 years now and has been saying she "just wants to die." She almost got her wish.. but the adult care worker happened to call and my uncle (who is mentally ill and likely would not have thought to call for help) told her it was good she called, that my grandma was very sick and he was afraid she almost died. (and no, he hadn't thought to call for help.. grr)
They sent the ambulance out and she has pneumonia, extremely low hemaglobin, dehydrated, and the scariest one (skip this sentence if you're squeamish!!) - a prolapsed rectum. I guess that's the main problem - she's got a lot of bleeding from that, and was getting close to bleeding to death. YIKES. She initially refused any treatment other than IV and oxygen, but is now agreeing to a transfusion. And the GREAT news, she's also agreed to take antidepressants! I really hope they work. It may be too late.. but she's been miserable for SO many years, I would be thrilled if they work and she gets some semblance of happiness back for awhile.
The pneumonia's pretty treatable but apparently if they don't operate on the bowel she will likely die in the next 1-2 months. Wow.. it's apparently a very easy surgery with excellent projected outcome and would alleviate a ton of pain and most of her other health issues. So far she is refusing, but I hope they can convince her. She's got this fear of going blind/deaf before she dies and would rather die before that happens... so she lets everything go rather than treat it, in hopes that it will kill her before her vision/hearing deteriorates more. Meanwhile she gets sicker, depressed, and isolates herself because she's not feeling well. Awful cycle. She has so many people who love her and have tried to be part of her life, I hope she can pull through this and have some enjoyable time, at least for awhile. And I will definitely visit her as soon as this virus is gone, glad I will have that chance.
It's a pretty striking reminder to keep focused on the POSITIVE, that's for sure. I don't want to live my last 10-20 years (or the next 10-20, for that matter) miserable with myself, my life, etc. She gave control of her life away long ago and never figured out how to get it back. I am consciously choosing to live my life differently, and I need to always remember that.
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But it was still an awesome show and a lot of fun.
The Sacto show is likely going down as one of his legendary ones, very cool. San Jose was great but Sac was just WOW. 
