I celebrated by going to the chiropracter because my lower back kept grabbing me and buckling my knees. Ouch!
Your C is right. I was in C years ago and was told then that if you learn to shut out the hurt or sad that you also end up blocking out the good and the happy. Feel to heal - so true!
WCW, I'd have killed to go to the Chiro today, my lower back has been all messed up the entire day. I've been doing some stretching, heating, icing and whatever else might loosen it up. Can you say Robaxacet!
Re: the C's advice. She was saying that I always want to find a way to beat whatever it is I'm dealing with. It's how I deal with challenges. I beat alcoholism as a young man, diabetes more recently, I lived and actually thrived during the extremely stressful last years of my M, I survived the separation etc. and now I'm looking for a way to beat the crap out of the remains of this damn virus that knocked me on my ass. She said my strategy worked well for the forementioned battles but my body isn't going to re-energize until it's darn good and ready too. So, my job is to feel whatever it is I feel. If I'm sad, feel sad. If I'm frustrated, feel frustrated and so on. When I'm tired, and that's frequently, I need to allow myself to be tired. She said "you'll allow your friend whose marriage ended to cry every night but you won't allow yourself to cry when you've been sick for over three months" She said "a lot of people would be gouging their own eyes out after being sick for so long but you haven't missed a beat. Let yourself feel sadness, anger, frustration and whatever else comes up. If you feel, you'll heal" So, it's a new strategy I'm to undertake. Allow the healing rather than forcing it. Should be fun...I guess!
