How much does it cost to feel well? What are you willing to give up to be free of pain? We know that healthcare doesn’t come cheap. Vitamins are expensive. Organic food is a bit extra so we weight the cost. Is it worth it for us? What about the medicine we take? That’s been my dilemma. But not so much about the cost. The medicine I’m taking, Topamax, helps prevent migraines. It’s also been helping in preventing my neck pain. The side effect for me is tiredness, fatigue. With each increase in dosage comes a bit of slowing down. So, my cost/ratio question is, how much pain prevention is it worth for me? How much slowing down can I adapt to?
All glory comes from daring to begin.
John Brown, a poem by Eugene Fitch Ware.
For a while I didn’t know if I was going to make it each time my doctor kept saying, we’re going to try upping your medication. But on the flip side, I didn’t know if I was going to make it with the fire-like pain that was radiating up the nerves in my neck and my skull. I trudged and braced myself, hoping I could make it through another day, then the week. Sometimes there was a reprieve. Until now. I’ve had a full month without headaches. That’s darn good. Freakin’ amazing! It’s been close to 9 months since this process started and now I finally see the progress. The slowing down is worth it.
We live and change
This article though is a little disturbing to me. The trend towards constantly rewarding our happiness button, or shortening our attention span a bit more, is increasing instead of decreasing. I think we’d be happier as a species relaxing our attention and letting go, but that’s just me. Check out the article if you wish here, What would you pay to be happy? The Guardian.
…the poet Guillaume Apollinaire: “Now and then,” he advised, “it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” That’s worth a T-shirt.
William Davies’s The Happiness Industry, from the above article.
Yoga challenge – Can you be still? A Sequence To Challenge Distractions.
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I’m with you. I recently pinned an LOL that said, effectively, “IMAGINE: in my generation, we often went an entire day without taking a picture of anything!”
Yep. We actually COMMUNICATED with one another, back in the day, vs. the sound-biting that passes for communication today. Perhaps that’s the only way to keep up with a world that twirls faster every day – besides making friends with slowing down, that is (MY CHOICE TOO!)
About lack of energy: a client has been complaining of a similar problem for quite a while now. Her doctor recently discovered that she was severely iron deficient (so much so that her doctor is putting her on 10 intravenous augmentations). Have you checked that out?
xx,
mgh
(Madelyn Griffith-Haynie – ADDandSoMuchMore dot com)
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I’ll ask my doctor about it. I’ve started increasing my vitamin C which is helpful and also making sure I eat protein earlier in the day. Thanks for the recommendation.
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