Black Swan – Picture taken on iPhone, modified using PicMonkey by Stephanie Lise Lamoureux
his is my second entry in the Weekly Photo Challenge by The Daily Post. This week’s photo prompt was brought to you by Sara Rosso, where she shared her photo of Curves, a front of the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco. A beautiful sight indeed.
Curves. I bet you can find curves wherever you are. Show me!
ou would think being told by a specialist the cause and nature to your discomfort to be somewhat relieving? I was not relived. In fact, I was constipated. No pun intended.
I’ve been on a health journey for the last year now, trying to figure out the rhyme and reason to my stomach pain after eating food. I started having symptoms that grew significantly worse over time, to the point where I just had to admit to myself: I may have a health issue.
So I did what any sane person would do, I went to see my Family Doctor. We live in an age when people follow blindly the orders of Doctors whom carefully plan their advice based on pharmaceutical companies that support them. Sometimes drugs merit consumption, but I am the type of person that knows intuitively and logically that Natural Remedies and or proper Diet can also benefit.
I say this with a little splinter in my foot (that annoys), after discussing with my Family Doctor my illnesses she prescribed me a medicated drug, which I took, for about a month, thinking it would help, only to discover later on by the specialist that this drug will do nothing for me. I never needed to take it in the first place. Now, my Family Doctor didn’t know what I had exactly so she prescribed a medication she thought would help. It was meant to be taken until she received my blood test results and after the consultation with the specialist A.K.A (Gastroenterologist).
So the results only showed her that I was low in iron. Okay so what does this have to do with my stomach? She was waiting on the diagnoses from the Gastroenterologist. When I finally saw him, he looked at my test results, he asked me a series of questions and he concluded that I have: Irritable Bowel Syndrome. He also said, I didn’t need to take the prescribed medication she had given me. It’s not the end of the world if I took a drug that didn’t need to be taken, but my body had been exposed to its chemicals for no good reason, and that pissed me off. This shows you don’t be naïve when it comes to taking prescriptive medication, do your research and be smart not gullible. I know we think Doctors are Saints, they mean well, but you have the responsibility to your body to be smarter!
Your skin is a living picture of everything that is going on inside of the body. — Lozetta DeAngelo, licensed esthetician and national training director for Reviva Labs, INC.
When a skin rash appears, it’s the body way of telling you that it is reacting to a substance that it doesn’t like. The cause is usually due to an allergy to foods, creams, oils, plants, herbs fragrances, animals, clothing, cosmetics, etc. etc.
According to Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America:
Skin Allergies – (Atopic dermatitis; eczema; hives; urticaria; contact allergies) Approximately 7% of allergy sufferers have skin allergies as their primary allergy. Plants such as poison ivy, oak and sumac are the most common skin allergy triggers. However, skin contact with cockroach and dust mite allergen, certain foods or latex may also trigger symptoms of skin allergy.
Food and Drug Allergies – Approximately 6% of allergy sufferers have food/drug allergies as their primary allergy. Food allergy is more common among children than adults. 90% of all food allergy reactions are caused by 8 foods: milk, soy, eggs, wheat, peanuts, tree nuts, fish and shellfish. For drug allergies, penicillin is the most common allergy trigger.
Allergy is the 5th leading chronic disease in the U.S. among all ages, and the 3rd most common chronic disease among children under 18 years old.
has impressed me more than any other Blog Site available on the Net, and I’ve been around!
I’ve had my share of One-Site-Stands, let me tell ya, where I have a night of passion, fucking it’s Blog out, only to wake up with morning regrets, and a bad case of Carpal Tunnel.
Metaphorically speaking! *giggles
I would get all excited about a site only to be disappointed in the end (ie. no traffic, zero comments, and a feeling of talking to myself in the dark.) Not to bash any names… Cough, cough, …BLOGGER!
I been there, done that, didn’t work, didn’t last, closed.
I though the blogging world wasn’t for me, because I thought no one cared. Well in early 2012, my fiancée’s friend had a Blog on WordPress. He mentioned her to me as I was looking up topics online and she had a nail art tutorial article, something I was interested in, so i checked it out.
LINK: http://diaryofaphatkat.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/fruit-salad-nails/
FYI - Diary Of A Phat Kat is an amazing Blog! Apart from being a cool-cat she also writes on The Daily Glow, as a freelancer. She has lots of funny posts, tips and an overall brilliant blog, she is an amazing gal. I admire her dedication to going back to school and becoming a Nurse, a tall task to challenge, but I know she will make it. Her successes on WordPress inspired me to start Blogging on here, and I THANK her enormously for it!
This blog tale is unlike the 1980 drama film The Elephant Man based on the true story of Joseph Merrick who was a severely deformed man in 19th century London, but reminded me of it (as I am a film enthusiast) but it is similar. How you may ask? Because the emotions felt by The Elephant Man resemble how I feel when I have a skin condition, hence me feeling like an Elephant Lady.
Overdramatic.
“Perhaps.”
Nonetheless here is my tall tale.
This morning….
I woke up to an awful nightmare! Don’t you just hate those dreams when you lose someone you love? I know I do, your belly gets all upside-down with grief when in reality it’s only hunger. As I woke up I immediately rolled over to my fiancée’s side and poked him, thinking: are you still alive hun? To my fiancée’s surprise he grunted and rolled over to me in a half awake state.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately; perhaps focusing on one Blog is better than two. The fact is I generate more traffic on my Word Press Blog here than I do on my own Web Site.
I’m very OCD when it comes to my creative projects. I have multiples of things, why (I’m not sure) but I can tell you multiple reasons why I do. Maybe I don’t have ODC after all, I’ve just read 13,253 books on it, and so I’d know if I did. *Blush
I have noticed that I “spread myself too thin” too when it comes to hobbies or activities. I’m like a Bitch-In-Heat spraying multiple trees, marking her territory. “That’s mine, oh and that tree is mine, and that brush over there, mine mine mine!”
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