It Started to Sink in...Putting The Jigsaw Puzzle Together

Our family has a little joke (my kids always hated this):
A man goes to the doctor. He says,"Doctor, when I raise my arm up like this it hurts". The doctor says,"Well, don't raise your arm up like that".


The more I thought about what I had found, the more it made sense to me. I now wonder if there were signs of this throughout my life. I think of random health issues and how "the last doctor" never really investigated them. I think of things I just considered to be quirks about me, but I either adapted to them or changed something environmentally that reduced or eased the problem.


Such as--

• Greasy food has never really "agreed with me", so I limited or avoided it
• I have a hard time swallowing "dry" foods, so I use lots of sauces!!!
• Sodas made me feel uncomfortably bloated, so I stopped drinking them
• My facial skin seemed to absorb liquid makeup, leaving behind a blotchy pattern, so I have never used it, other than around my eyes
• Shaving my legs can sometimes leave them feeling like they are on FIRE, or like I was attacked by a family of chiggers (that's for us Southern girls!!). Well....I just used shaving products for sensitive skin & hoped for the best (a girl's got to do what a girl's got to do!!)
• My nails have ALWAYS been brittle & would not grow long & pretty, so I have my nails done--acrylic overlays
• Salty food seems to make my hands swell & my finger joints ache, so I limit my sodium intake considerably. I can especially see a difference when dining out--particularly if it's Mexican food!! (maybe it was the margaritas??)
• Riding on our motorcycle with the face shield raised caused my eyes to feel like they were swollen & on fire, so I kept my shield pulled down & made sure I had eye drops

Not to mention the array of lotions, oily sprays, bath oil beads, eye drops, hard candy, hair conditioners, etc....

Is any of this sounding familiar? Have you just adapted to some of the symptoms you experience?

BUT then the fatigue came....that tiredness. The energetic spirit is still there, but you just can't drag yourself to the shower to get ready to go. You make it through the work week, knowing that you WILL sleep late on Saturday, and then wake up a few hours later than normal, feeling ready to conquer the world again. So you sleep 2 hours later, wake up, & drag yourself to the coffee pot, then the couch, & there you remain until ehhh.....supper time???? :)

Please tell me that's not JUST ME?!?!?