A Quick Update from Cee and Post From Chris

I’m so sorry that I have not been adding to this blog.  I really try to keep my blogging upbeat and inspiring on this blog.  Guess that says something when I’m not blogging.  It hasn’t that I’ve been depressed.  I’ve just been extremely tired.   Since I had took that tumble down a few steps I’ve really been tired.  It took all my energy to just recover from that. 

I also have quite my Donna Eden Energy Medicine Certification classes.  They were just way too much for me to handle on both the energy and physical levels.  What I have been doing is getting treatments and learning about Qigong for Healing.  It really isn’t that much different from Energy Medicine.  Actually Qigong is the birthplace of energy medicine and comes from China.  No doubt you will be reading more and more of Qigong from me in the coming weeks.

Chris is already started classes that will get her to instructor status in three years.  I’m hoping to join in the classes next year.  I really need a year to get healthier and more energy flowing in my body.

Here is an article that Chris wrote on her Chris’ Qigong Experience blog.  You should check it out.

Tips for living with chronic illness

I’d like to share some of the things that have helped Cee with her Lyme disease. I think they would also help someone who had any chronic disease that involved an immune deficiency, such as fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, etc. Remember, though, that I don’t have any medical training. I’m just telling you what has worked for her, combinations of Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine. You are responsible for your own wellness.

1. Take your temperature. Seriously. Cee’s temp normally runs about two and a half degrees (F) below normal. Running low is just as bad as running high. It means your body is working on overdrive just to try to keep you warm, and it’s losing the battle. Your temperature is a cheap and easy way to see how you are doing.

2. Stay warm, especially in your center of your body, from the bottom of the lungs down to the bladder. Even if the room is warm, wear a sweater vest or something that will keep your core warm.

3. Your body is working hard to keep its temperature regulated. If you tend to overheat, cool down as quickly as possible. Grab a bag of frozen peas and hold it up against your neck.  Do anything to cool you down quickly.

4. Conserve energy. That’s what 2 and 3 were all about, helping your body with standard tasks. Carry that over into other parts of your life. Plan errands, shop with a list, ask for help when needed. Your energy is like gold. Spend it wisely.

5. Eat hot food. Drink hot liquids. Don’t force your body to warm food as part of the digestive process. Conserve your energy. Never, ever drink ice cold beverages.

6. Eat easily digested food. Stick with the things you know your body can tolerate.  Don’t eat raw food.  Eating cooked food helps the digestive process.

7.  Ginger is excellent for warming you.  You can have it as a tea or grate it into your food.  If you’re really courageous, you can eat a few slices raw.

Hugs and blessings

Cee and Chris

What is this thing with the funny name? (Qigong defined in simple terms)

I knew that if I were going to talk about Qigong, this thing with the funny name, I’d have to find words that came from my heart and not a textbook.  I’m going to be teaching this someday, and not too long from now, so I need to be able to explain it.  So here goes.  Qigong from my heart to yours…

Read the rest of my article on my new blog.

Blessings,

Chris

The Miracle of Hot Water

Chris and I are on to a new adventure in healing.  Last week Chris went to see a Qigong Master Healer, Master Liu He.  One of the things that Chris was told to do is drink hot water first thing in the morning and at then again at 2:oo pm.  As well as any other time of the day.

My cup of hot water.

I also went to see Master Liu He yesterday.  I was told that I really needed to have the hot water, because my stomach and other organs are actually frozen.  Frozen in temperature which also means that they aren’t working well, if at all.  As you all know I have had multiple organ failure in the past and I really don’t want to have it again.  I was told not to eat anything cold.  Make sure my food is warm.  So goodbye to my iced lattes.  I’m back to my one cup of hot latte in the mornings.

The reason for hot food makes sense.  I learned that my weakest organ is my stomach although  all my organs are working extra hard to keep me warm.  Since my other organs are working overtime to try to warm up my stomach, they are also quite cold and not working well.

Since every organ is working so hard at keeping me warm, this results in me feeling a warm.   I’ve learned over the years that I feel better eating or drinking cold food because that would make me feel a cooler.  But that only made my organs work harder to warm me up.   This results in my all of my organs getting cooler all the time.

I have known for several years that my body temperature is about 2 degrees lower than the average body temperature of 98.6. I have actually seen as low as 95.6 at times.  So as I get my body warmed up by drinking hot water and eating warm food, it will allow my organs not to have to work as hard to warm me up.

I do drink hot water before I eat, so my stomach is nice and warm.  Last week after Chris was told to drink hot water I started to drink it as well.  Since then I have not eaten any cold food or water and I’ve had instant results because I am using about a third less insulin daily.

I was told to do some other stuff to which will help my organs warm up which will stabilize my organs and bring them back to life.  That will wait for another blog.  But for now, I’m going sign off and enjoy my warm cup of water.

Hugs and blessings

Cee

An Uplifting Tear Jerker

Chris found this video and it really fits this blog.  It’s about choosing to live when you are broken down and finding your purpose in life.

It is also very fitting for any veteran.  So grab a kleenex tissue and give yourself an inspiring treat!! ENJOY!!

To view, please click on this link:  An Uplifting Tear Jerker

Hugs and blessings

Cee

Let the sun shine in!

We only have two seasons where we live in Oregon:  summer, which gives us three months of sunshine, and our other season, which gives us nine months of clouds and rain (autumn, winter and spring are one long, rainy season… maybe we should rename it AuWiSp!).

Looking ahead to the rain and cloudy skies, we invested in some new lights to let the sunshine in even when it isn’t sunny outside.  We replaced all of our compact fluorescent bulbs with full spectrum lighting, to bring some sunlight into our home.  What an amazing difference!

Best Bouncy Structure Ever

Reblogged from Gathering Moss while Wandering:

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Alan Parkinson of Architects of Air (AOA) created these maze structures which he dubbed Luminaria. His creations use four super saturated colors to create a changing flow between structures. Up to 20 of the stuctures can be linked. It takes approximately 4 hours to assemble them and only 20 minutes to inflate, presumably with many high powered air pumps.

He has built and displayed these interactive structures each year since 1992.

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Absolutely magical. The video is worth it. Hugs and Blessings Cee

I only wanted to wear “grown up” shoes.

Chris had planned a nice meal out at a new restaurant.  When I got dressed I decided  to put on an a pair of sandals I have not worn in years.  I just wanted to wear what I call “grown up shoes”, since normally I only wear my tennis shoes even in good clothes.

We live in a small home with our driveway along the side of our house.  There is just enough room between the side of the house and our cars to open our doors.  It’s quite a narrow space.  Chris was ahead of me and I was walking down the steps to get to our cement driveway and I took a header down the stairs.  Chris looked back to see me face down on our driveway with my shoes dangling off my feet.  I walked right out of the heals of my “grown up” shoes.  Here is the thing, because my edema in my legs I have horrible range of motion and it is extremely difficult for me to get up and down off the ground.  So here I am a tall and large woman flat on my stomach and stuck in a 3 foot space.  I ended rolling over to my side and sat up against the house as I assessed any damage I may have done.  It was easy to tell I had no broken bones, but I did have some very sore areas.  Now we had to figure out how to get me to stand up and get me back into the house.

I can’t crawl or stay on my knees because my knees simply don’t bend enough.   I was close enough to our steps I thought I could just scoot over to them and lift myself up a step at a time until I was up high enough to stand.  Our first step is short and I managed somehow to lift myself up to sit on the first step.  Chris was holding my feet in place since I was bending my knees farther than normal.  The second step is higher and I was unable to lift myself up all the way.  So Chris managed to get around me and grabbed my pants so as I lifted she could help with that extra inch.  Now on the second step I could take a better assessment.  My right foot is messed up, left knee and left wrist but nothing broken, only bruised and pushed beyond normal movement limits.  Chris helped me stand up and we went inside.  Needless to say we did not go out to eat.  I had a TV dinner instead.

We put ice on my right foot and leg.   So for the past two days I have been back to being almost unable to walk and sore.  I am feeling some improvement already today.

There are a couple of things that came out of this ordeal for me.  One is that those “grown up” shoes are bad and have been thrown out.

The other thing is I really do have much more appreciation of what it took to come back from when I was in my coma.  My right foot won’t move bend much right now because it was stretched way beyond what it is capable of and my foot is swelling.  My legs are not swelling any more than normal.    So my right foot right now is very indicative of how my entire body felt as I was starting to move my muscles.  When I woke up from being in my coma I was so weak I couldn’t even hold a pencil, let alone write with it.  When I went through a lot of the initial trying to move I was still so       sick and drugged up in the hospital, I did not appreciate what it took just to move, let alone walk.

This experience has made me appreciate my own strength and will.  I had so much stuff wrong with me that the doctor’s only gave me a 15% chance survival from respiratory failure, a 15% chance from pancreatic failure, a 15% chance from kidney failure, a 15% chance from systemic yeast infection and a 15% chance from a staph infection.  We have joked over the years that I just waited until all the various 15% added up in my favor and then I decided to come out of the coma.  This weekend I was feeling very fortunate that I am one of those few who have made it through something like I have.  With all the things that should have killed me or disabled me, I am doing really well.

So today I might be sore, but feeling grateful too.

Hugs and blessings

Cee