Mornings for me

 Dear reader,

Mornings are most often a very good time for me. I often have a lot of energy early in the morning. Like today, right now... It's a little past six AM on a Monday morning and I am sitting here , blogging LOL. At some point I became a morning person haha! I am not sure if I have always been that... I have been very different during different stages of my life. When I was 17 and in the hospital for eight months, I think I was often awake early and one of the first ones in line for breakfast. Of course, the meds I have taken every morning since August of 1997 have made me very tired in general. I have "friends" who belittle my fatigue and scoff when I tell them I am often very tired. They are a not really kind. They don't have sleep apnea and take 9 pills in the morning and 9 pills in the evening...

It will soon be 30 years since I first got ill. Think about it. That's a long time.

But I am still here. Alive and kicking! :D HAHAH! 

Lately I have been feeling so much better. The only symptom that appears sometimes is anxiety. I sometimes take a medicine for anxiety. It helps most of the time. I have a few tricks I have to help me, that I can do to make me feel better... Here are a few:

Pray

listen to the right kind of music

read the scriptures

watch general conference

read a good and favorite book

I also sometimes take a lemon and "sip" some of the juice from it 

Play with my Barbies and ponies etc.

take a shower and put on comfortable clothes.

Those tricks are often sufficient. At other times I feel like nothing helps, then I call my nurse or the health care advice line. By then I am ready to feel better often and just calling them is enough. Because I want to help myself get better. When I was more ill, I couldn't do anything! I was paralyzed and awaited help from someone else. Nowadays I try to get help within myself.

Pepsi max, chocolate etc helps sometimes :)

More later!

Cinders