Night Shift

Hi @Shaz51

How are you?

Thanks @Decadian, @BlueBay, @Former-Member, @Faith-and-Hope, @Mazarita, @Former-Member, @Former-Member, @Angels333, @Appleblossom, @Jacques, @PeppiPatty, @Former-Member, @TAB xx

will find out more next week

have to do some more blood tests

at the moment -- have to cut down on salt, and certain foods, fruit and veges

Yes @Decadian, the kidney is mostly to blame xx

Hi @Shaz51

Ah - the kidneys - I am not at all surprised that salt is off your diet - I guess red meat and green vegetables will have to be limited - sound horrible but hey - is broccoli off your diet - that could be one good thing

I hope this works - it sounds horrible - I hate not being allowed to eat certain things - except broccoli -

I hope this gets better for you - I am waiting to hear

Decadian

..was replying to your comment this morning re snoring @Former-Member

Thanks @Former-Member and @Former-Member

That helps - I am feeling better tonight - I took it easy today and I could not remember if I had taken my tablets for breakthrough pain in the morning so I waited for 4 hours and then took a tablet for the spasms in my spine too - and after a while I did feel a lot better

I did give the loud woman a bit of a back-answer - she was yelling "Youa hava ta listen. Youa hava ta listen. Youa hava ta listen - to me - to me" - and I turned around and yelled "No - I don't!!!"

When I was young I learned the best part of non-argument - if she had been in my face I would have given her a serve of traffic law in Australia - but she wasn't - and giving people the last word is powerful - it really is

However if I had been in an accident as you girls were - and it was not my fault - aw - I really have a voice. If you could find my ex's they could tell you - and I know English well and can turn the phrase with subtle insults. This time I said enough - but I don't like being yelled at - it is not at all helpful - and I have thought of ringing Life Line and if I feel bad tomorrow I might

My meals - yes - they are ordered by my agency and are part of my package - they look much better than meals on wheels - I don't have them - I have in the past - a long time in the past - I forget but they seemed indifferent - I am trying this to see how I go - I will get back to salads in the spring probably - I grow my own

One thing life has taught me is that bad patches don't last - what a bleak and nasty winter this has been - and people told me the weather in Canberra would be cold - it wasn't - it was great

Okay - Thursday nights are bleak on TV _ I might watch a DVD but the conversation here can be really great - and this is better than any movie

Thanks both of you

Dec

@Faith-and-Hope I think I'll have what your having re ice cream . Let me know if it helps tiredness, I'm sure it would help mood a bit.

@Former-Member I've had all previous clinicians try to get me to do mindfulness activities and I've failed and got mad at myself for not being able to do it. There are so many apps and YouTube activities but so many require visualising things which I can't do. I also loose concentration and focus. My mindfulness classes run for an hour once a week. It's only the third week but it's been so helpful. It is all hands on activities. We do mindful breathing but mostly it is focusing on your senses to be in the present. This week we made a cup of herbal tea and had to experience it objectively and describe things. It is so difficult in some parts not to make judgements about it. We then did an exercise balancing small bean bags on our heads and moving different body parts. This is so amazing because no other thoughts creep in while you are concentrating doing this. Lastly we scraped chalk into salt and then just added glue to paper which is a really simple art activity. The best thing is that you can't make judgements about it. It is what it is. I got caught up with mine being crap but then was encouraged to realise there is not right, wrong, good, bad etc. it just is what it is. Every week we have activities focusing on different senses. I think I'm beginning to appreciate how freeing it is not to make judgements and therefore take out any emotion and I walk away feeling quite free. Not sure if this helps

Hi @Faith-and-Hope

I will have to try that icecream - I love icecream - when I was in Launceston last year I found an icecream stand and had different icecream everyday - oohhhhhhh - ye-um-me

@Former-Member

That mindfulness - wow - I do mindful breathing - and actually find I do that sometimes when I am doing something different - it seems to work -

But the chalk scraping - ah ah ah the blackboard thing - ah I know there was no blackboard - but one thing

Life is - not right, not wrong - it just is - of course there are laws and manners etc - but in the moment - whatever it is - we don't have to like it either

I have wondered what mindfulness meant - thinking I would pull it up on the net - but also - someone will describe what it is - I think I must have learned it a long time under a different name

Thanks for the description - and the idea of balancing something - now that's a trick that can use up the mind - let's not try it with the crystal though - little bean bags - that's safe

Decadian - feeling please about that

@Former-Member

One of my favourite sayings is .... "It is what it is ...."

It's one I have used with my kids growing up, so it has become a family saying .... but it is only now that you have described these mindfulness exercises that I can see it in the same perspective ....

It means that whatever judgement you might place over it will make no difference ... the situation exists beyond judgement .... so you might as well just work with it objectively ....

.... and yes, there is a freedom that comes along with simply saying that something "is what it is" ....

BTW .... the coffee ice cream was mood lifting .... ✅.... but failed as an energy reviver ....❎ .... I'm still in pyjama-mode with not enough energy to crawl into my pyjamas .... and wishing someone else would make dinner tonight ....

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