This month involved working on things that could potentially improve my health. Things are moving slowly, but hopefully headed in the right direction.
Rheumatologist
Checking up on me today
Confused him last time
June 2, 2016
Had blood test today
Am borderline anemic
So spacey right now!
June 2, 2016
The phrase “pushing the envelope” is an idiom that can be explained as “to approach or extend the limits of what is possible”. May turned out to be all about that, quite unintentionally.
I was pushed out of my comfort zone in many different ways. I wrote very few haiku in May. I guess this is what happens when your physical body needs extra energy to cope with allergens, irritants, and chronic illnesses. Something had to give, and it turned out to be the poetry.
I tend to complain on Twitter in the form of haiku, and unintentionally ended up with a mix of poems about a small moment of joy or a lingering moment of pain.
February was a really strange month for me. Pollen season started at about the same time I had to begin doubling the dose of a new medication. The old mobile home next door was in the process of being taken apart so it could be removed. Things got a bit surreal for most of this month.
New medication
Double dosage starts today
Watch me float away
February 5, 2016
Way too windy out
Pollen count too high this week
I am struggling
February 15, 2016
Every month, I gather up the health-related haiku I wrote on Twitter and put it into a blog post. It becomes a “snapshot” of what my health was like. If I’m going to complain about my health, I may as well find a creative way to express it.
December is not my favorite month of the year. It’s cold (even here in California). It’s filled with a whole lot of extra errands and expenses due to Christmas. It’s the month where I cannot escape holiday related allergens – even at the grocery store.
November of 2015 was filled with too many things that drained my energy. I was fighting off a cold, and that made everything harder.
I was physically overwhelmed. My body decided to react – badly – to allergens hidden in things that I though were safe. A coconut allergy appeared out of nowhere, and I had to find soap that was safe. (Grandma’s Pure Soap is coconut free.)
October was a busy, and difficult, month. I was fighting allergies from fall pollen season, the cigarette smoke from my neighbor’s yard, and a cold. It was overwhelming both physically and emotionally.
September was yet another month were my allergies were horrible due to heat, humidity, and high pollen. Ragweed season raged on. Considering how sick I was, and how many allergy medications I was on, I’m amazed that I got anything done at all.
August was overwhelming physically, emotionally, and financially. Some of this was my own fault, and the rest was unavoidable. I was in fear of what the upcoming ragweed season would do to me, so I really pushed myself to do things before my allergies got horrible, again, for an indeterminate amount of time.
