Ice, Colds and Vitamin D
The cold season seems to be waning. The snowdrops crept under my radar this year and the daffodils are almost open. We have been so lucky through this winter: No floods, no ice or snow.
Daughter has had a cough, and in a fit of cross independence, insists she does not have a cough! Wonderful: she is learning about positive thinking, I assume.
Husband has a snuffle and a habitually gloomy expression, a frown that hints at unhealthy preoccupation with the impossible demands of his job. It does not help him when I ask him to cheer up, but I do miss the sweetness of his smile, which has been away for too long.
I ingest multi vits, calcium, special fish oil, vitamin B6, magnesium and vitamin D, as well as large quantities of a particularly nauseating green powder called barley grass, which keeps me healthy, but is particularly difficult to stomach before breakfast. To stay well, pain free and relatively optimistic, this does work. My arthritis is under control, and the latest round of swimming and exercise which complements my healthy lifestyle choices seems to have helped reduce the pain in my right knee so that today, I can use stairs without hobbling one step at a time. I hope that the relief of taking movement for granted will never leave me.
I have to stay healthy, warm and watered, cannot afford to become ill or ‘immune depressed’ just now, because I have still to hear about the audio recording of my book and when that might be happening. Meantime, I have to stay focussed, confident and upbeat. The sunshine vitamins that take up so much room in my kitchen cupboards help greatly, when faced with Great Silence.
Trapped: My Life With Cerebral Palsy is released three weeks today, on 4th March 2014. An exciting, thrilling prospect. What has been a dream for so many years is on the cusp of realisation. What a miracle.
