I’m not referring to my weight or my body size. I’m talking about my body in general. In one of my earlier blogs I said my body is weird.
You just have no idea HOW weird.
Here’s just a few examples. When I was 12, one of my brothers was killed by a drunk driver. I was trying to be strong for my mother because she needed me. The doctor got it into his head that I needed something to calm me. I thought I was putting up a very brave front. But he was of the old school that you medicated everyone. So he gave me a 1mg Valium. Yes, just 1mg. Instead of chilling me out, however, it had exactly the opposite effect. I got so tense and was climbing the walls…almost literally…and might have strangled someone if they’d pissed me off. It was at this point in my life that I decided I wouldn’t take any meds unless they were absolutely necessary.
Caffeine has it’s own strange effect. It doesn’t stimulate me and hype me up. Oh, no, no, no. Instead it puts me to sleep and will even make me itch if I get too much and make my face go numb.
Antibiotics. What can those do to a person, you say? Well let me tell you what they do to me. They make me so hormonal it isn’t even funny. When I’m several days into them it hits. And during those times I can cry for NO REASON AT ALL! When I say no reason, I mean NO REASON. Like the time I saw a woman walking down the street and just burst into tears. God I hated that, and I don’t take them unless absolutely necessary.
Zantac and Tums. I pretty much have a cast iron stomach. I will on ocassion get a stomach virus, but I rarely have an upset stomach. There have been 4, maybe 5 times in my entire life. Once I had a Zantac and the other times I had Tums. The effect? They knocked me out on my ass! Yes, they put me right to sleep. Jeez, Louise.
Morphine has no effect on me. Torodal, which is basically a pumped up ibuprofen, will put me right out. I’m allergic to birth control. I’m allergic to Clariton. Yes, I’m allergic to an allergy pill. Aleve will do nothing for pain but will make me meaner than hell.
When I had my surgery, my blood work came back positive for pregnancy. Not once but TWICE! Thank God the quantitative was negative so I didn’t have any tumors. They never did find out why it kept coming up positive. I told the doctor it wasn’t happening unless it was the hand of God because I hadn’t been exposed!
Those are just some examples.
So what has me gritting my teeth at my weird body now? I know most everyone has either read or watched something about colon cleansing. After reading an article and watching a video they did on the Today Show, I decided to try it. Of course at $88.00 for a one month supply, plus $5.95 shipping and handling, I didn’t stand a chance of getting any. But there on the article and video of the Today Show, where they were rating the 50 plus they had tested, the one they said was the best was having a special offer to get one month free and all you pay is shipping and handling. I was actually able to swing the $5.95.
So I got the pills Monday and started them Tuesday morning because I was off Tuesday and Wednesday. They had begun working my friend Danny within the next day.
And do you think Nature Cleanse worked for me in the same way?
Hell, no! Just the opposite. I had never been constipated in my life, but now, NOW, it’s been 5 days on the pills that are specifically designed to clean the built up gunk in my body away, and I’ve had only 2 small bowel movements.
Argh! Sometimes I want to scream. I like being different in most ways, but not in a lot of the ways my body reacts.
Of course the fact that I’ve never had a migraine…and they run in my family…is a good aspect of being different. In fact, I don’t get headaches except for sinus headaches. Maybe my head is too hard. I don’t know. I just know it can be frustrating trying something new when you never know how you will react to it.
And now on a different note, not a ranting note. I want to wish all my buddies a good weekend. I will be without internet at home for possibly as long as two weeks. Like most people these days, money issues. But I will try to get here to the library as much as my schedule will permit.
Everyone take care and God bless and forgive me for missing your blogs while I’m MIA.