Healthy Me

I want to compost but don't want the pile in the yard or to have to shovel it to keep it aerated and moved.  I just found this compost tumbler that will eliminate all my concerns about it. So cool.

I am thinking my father-in-law would love one of these for Christmas too.  He is the hardest person to buy for and this just made this Christmas simple!

My cat and dust allergies are just driving me crazy right now.  I take an allergy pill everyday - that does nothing. I was having an allergy storm yesterday - running nose, coughing, airways closing so using my inhaler often, sneezing - - it just would not stop.  I had bought Allergy Buster Nasal Spray (all natural spray for allergies) last week and took it out to try yesterday.  It's active ingredients are Capsicum Annuum, Eucalyptus and Urtica Dioica.  The initial spray is definitely intense but wow are the results nice for several hours afterward.  It's non-drowsy and non-habit-forming.

Wanted to share this with other allergy sufferers.

What's on your kids' Christmas list this year?  My two youngest kids' lists keep changing every week. Every time they see a commercial, things get added and subtracted.  My teenager is going to Disney with her band so that is her Christmas AND birthday gift because we aren't made of money. I'm considering a PS3 as a family gift (which my son would like) or one of the more inexpensive tablet pc's (which he has been asking for). I won't start shopping for the big gifts until November so I'll figure it out eventually.

I shopped all day long.  I was looking for personalized baby picture frames and ended up with a huge supply of toiletries, cereals and juices (from coupons).  I'll go online tonight to Personal Creations and find the personalized gift that I need for a friend's baby (she just found out she is having a girl).  In the meantime, I need a whole other room to store all the stuff I bought today!

My new doctor tried to experiment with my thyroid meds by reducing my T3 dose slightly.  I tried it for two months and couldn't stand it any longer.  My hair started falling out, my periods were late and when they did decide to show up, they were too light (yes, there is such a thing...wish there wasn't).  So I am back on my regular dose and now I know just how sensitive my body is and just how much I need to take both T4 and T3.

It's amazing how such a small change can cause such havoc in my body.  It's also amazing to me that I went nine years before a doctor would finally agree to give me T3.  I obviously needed it! I am real tempted to write a letter to my former doctor advising her of how well I do on my new doctor's medication dosing (she and I did not see eye to eye on it at all no matter how I felt) hoping she'd reconsider and perhaps it'd help her next patient. Then I wonder if her ego is too big and why bother.

It's a shame how many people go without proper thyroid disease management when your thyroid affects every part of your body.  I spent nine years of my life miserable - hair falling out, memory loss, exhaustion, messed up periods, weight gain.  It never had to happen.  I feel like I wasted my 30's.  Not exactly medical malpractice.  I don't need to look up raleigh attorneys and find some legal relief for this but I do want my former doctors to know how their treatment made me worse and hope they learn from it?  I think writing them a letter will make me feel better anyway.

On October 1, I started my "healthy eating" diet and as of yesterday morning, had lost 4.5 pounds.  I also forgot to take my thyroid medication yesterday AND didn't have healthy snacks with me while out shopping and indulged in some "not so healthy" eating so I don't even want to see the scale today.  I know it definitely didn't go down.  I have a week to get to my weight goal before I turn 40.  I do not want to hit 40 overweight and I also do not want to have to get a new driver's license and lie about my weight, ha ha.