Sisyphus, climbing upwards, against the odds
Trauma and disability slow you down. Big time. A very good indicator for me will be when I can do everything I have to do PLUS write my blog regularly!
Exhaustion is the one common denominator I hear from everyone ReBuilding: lack of stamina and everything taking more energy – at least ‘more’ in terms of as a percentage of what you have?
What is there to help pull us up that last bluff? I have found something that helps me: every time. It’s cheap and simple, totally non-invasive and drug-free…
My beautiful and talented young friend Baldylocks is often exhausted because she is pushing herself to reach the top of the horrible ‘recovering from cancer’ mountain where she will be able to enjoy the view from the top. (And she’s doing brilliantly well – even though it has taken 4 or 5 years of her life, so far. Check out her blog.)
Three of the most important things you can do to help get well – on top of following your doctors’ orders, resting and believing that, without a doubt, you will get well:
- Take an excellent ’super’ multi vitamin and lots of C, D, E
- Use the Sota silver pulser to give your immune system a break – this is a totally non-invasive and drug-free gadget that works like a charm – amazing….
- Check out “What I Mean Is…” a unique workbook (there’s not one other like it in the world) for high functioning adults and get your speech and language ‘put back together’
This lack of stamina and exhaustion applies equally, I think, to everyone? Predictably – and every day – to the disabled or those who have had serious trauma. But, hang on a minute… That includes most of us?
All 4 of my otherwise-very-healthy young sons have been fighting recently. Ben bit off more than he – or anyone – could chew these last 2 years. Including some pretty heavy emotional trauma and he is constantly ‘fighting’. (In fact, just back from Africa last month, newly married, he passed a high-level trucking test yesterday and has landed a great job too. Congratulations again Ben!) My oldest son has been fighting his own way through heavy emotional trauma for the last few years.
My youngest son, Thomas, has been fighting to launch a new business – a successful website design business called Midnight Donkey – AND uses my zapper to great effect whenever he can’t quite seem to kick a cough or cold. My other son Daniel is a strapping bodybuilder who has launched his own successful drywall business – We Drywall Inc – and has ‘resorted’ to using my zapper (very reluctantly but to amazing effect!) once or twice recently. (Being healthy young men I think they see ‘giving in’ and using my zapper as not very manly? but I am delighted when they ask me if they can use it.
Climbing by a brook in Hope
My good friend who was a healthy university student one day and found herself paralyzed the next and fighting 7 very heavy years of medical nightmare is another perfect example of this kind of ‘fighting’. She started using the zapper recently as part of her strategy to get well.
And myself? It took me 8 or 9 years to climb – and fight – to the top of that ‘good health’ mountain after my own trauma. Where the view really was breathtaking and worth it and life was amazing. Only to be shoved down by circumstance and life 20 some years later by a car accident, ensuing pain, migraines and nasty lawyers. Unfortunately I’ve had to haul myself – and fight hard again – to get back to where I can enjoy life again. On MY terms… (I’m nearly there, I think!) And very much in debt to my Sota zapper.
Sota silver pulser or 'zapper'
For me, my Sota zapper has been truly amazing and the single one biggest help. It has allowed me to steadily climb, without a single pause. I haven’t bought a Tylenol or Neo Citran since I got it. It has saved me precious days off and allowed me to maintain steam and truly catch up.
Stamina – and the lack of it – compromises your immune system and makes you very susceptible to every germ around. I was never able to ‘get ahead’ because for every 2 steps forward I would take, I would catch every cough, cold and sore throat I came across and take 2 or 3 steps backward. This doesn’t just happen in cases of more serious debilitating illness either: it equally happens to all of us who are even just under stress. Try being a full-time working mom with a couple of nursery school age kids or an older person contending with cholesterol problems and arthritis?
Today is a beautiful sunny day! Spring and summer are definitely on their way. I’m feeling very grateful and vulnerable and brimming over with warm wishes for those I love – and everyone else in the world. Good health and happiness and strength to everyone!
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All good stuff – must have got my brains!! just kidding, your Father was pretty smart.