Well, even if you don’t ask, I’m gonna tell you!

I’ve been sick - imagine that, a doctor, sick. But it’s been a very positive experience for me and will be the source of serveral blog entries.

I had a respiratory infection with first some days of just feeling cruddy (that’s not the word I actually used but it would have been censored). Then I had to fly to Washington, DC for a business meeting. By the time I got to DC, my throat was totally RAW and worse than I ever remember it being. But, here’s a good plug - the Hall’s MAX sort throat lozenges are phenomenal but I don’t think there are any more since I probably bought them all that week.

The morning after I arrived in DC, my throat was horrible but the bad part was that i couldnt breath while walking. This just got worse and worse so that any type of exertion had me really breathing hard.

By the time I flew home on Thursday I was too scared that this might be my heart to even take my migraine medication - and that’s being pretty darned scared. I arrived back in San Antonio at about noon, called and made an appointment and drove to the hospital and got admitted about 10 hours later. They ruled out a heart attack and a blood clot (pulmonary embolus) but weren’t sure what was really going on.

But that’s not important, I’m much better now. But as I was sick and really unable to do much for the last few weeks, including talk (thus no audio blogs for a while), I had much time to reflect on my life. I came up with the appropriate diagnosis and it began with an "S" - no, not that "S" word.

STRESS

As I looked back over the past year, it’s been a whirlwind and great year but it’s also been crammed full of stress. Stress that I have either created or allowed to build. We don’t have enough electrons to go into that but if you’d like a sleep aid, email me and I’ll tell you all about it - just kidding.

Seriously though, I understood it before but I firmly believe now that we  have to address stress in our life - or better yet, how to eliminate it. And a few good friends have given me advice - don’t let things I have no control over bother me. and even though that’s not easy, it’s certainly something we all should strive for. And the other is to ask ourselves "how can I have the most fun at this precise moment?" I think that’s the best of all and intend to try to work with that as much as possible. I can think of scenes for a sitcom perhaps or stories for a stand up comedian. Anything that will make things fun.

I had to turn my life around and know that there’s a bunch of stuff going on but it’s not stressful UNLESS I MAKE IT STRESSFUL.

Please take heed of this. Stress adversely impacts our immune system and without our immune system, we’re in big trouble.

There are some other "alternative" medicine things I’ve been exposed to also in the past few weeks that I may eventually share depending on my results. But combatting stress in whatever way you can is essential.

So, bottom line is that I’m back now and I’ll be posting away again. It’s good to be back and I appreciate all my readers!

Terrie