Lil Miss is asleep on the sofa having stayed HOME from school today with a temperature, cough and stuffed up nose. We'll take it easy as rest helps healing faster.
Kansas Flint Hills are being burned even on these extremely Kansas windy days. Every year the rolling Flint Hills and landscape is burned from February to May. Cough cough....don't open the windows as the smoke will invade your abode and make you sick. So much of what is burned causes allergic reactions when you breathe the air in.
You can smell smoke in the air which plays havoc on HEALTH ISSUES pertaining to breathing with upper respiratory conditions. The burning of the prairie may make the grasslands beautiful in the SPRING, but many cannot tolerate the smoky conditions. Me included. Hubby is coughing and I'm holding my breath.
Last week I ventured out of my comfort zone and traveled across the countryside to a small community of about 444 people and discovered a antique shop that use to have an old fashioned soda fountain in it ran by a Attorney that played SODA JERK to relax. He's no longer there and is replaced by vintage items that others admire as they shop this place.
I toured the local Grocery Store and purchased a few items to take HOME.
I enjoyed my outing so much, I wanted to take my Husband there to see this quaint little Kansas TOWN named Alta Vista. The countryside on the Old K-10 road is peppered with old stone houses.
Since I live in a stone house, I thought it interesting that there are so many in the country.
Harvest-Milk Glass dishes with grapes was our find. I purchased two dinner plates. As we were walking out on Saturday, my dear Husband pointed out 6 more of these dishes and tumblers as well, hiding in plan sight. We took them HOME with us and our Estate g r e w.
I'll wash them later today and place them with my collection that has grown over the years. I didn't have many dinner size plates, so finding half a dozen more was a treat. The tumblers are wonderful as I had none. When the Luncheon size plates come forth, they will be nice to have. These Harvest-Milk Glass dishes are plentiful, affordable and pretty to use. Table scape Time.
Our week-end was pleasant and we took a SUNDAY DRIVE together. Don't do this enough. A Sunday Drive is pleasant therapy for weary souls when it is slow paced and the people out there don't run you off the road. In fact when there are very few people on the road it is next to heaven as we glide across the hilly roadside with a multitude of curves to cruise.
I returned to my regular doctor to visit about Thyroid Health. I am now taking Armour for thyroid hormone replacement. I will write about this later in detail with an honest twist to it and not one that promotes a Billion dollar business and the new world order of dummying down the human race that cannot think as clearly as they should because their body chemistry is being altered due to not receiving all the hormones the human body needs for well being.
For three years or so, I continued to studied thyroid issues and meds out there on the market. I kicked it around and hesitated changing meds as I was under the care of a endocrinologist that uses T4 Only Treatment. Miserable TREATMENT. I was more or less told to not read about thyroid stuff on the internet. FORGET ABOUT IT.
I was told that at a conference the speaker shared lowering the room temps for burning calories.
Lowering the inside house temperatures will encourage speeding up our metabolism to burn calories. If this were true, I'd be skinny as a stick because we keep our interior room temps lower than comfortable.
I'm as heavy as ever and gaining on an average of 5 pounds a year.
You see when you have NO thyroid or it's broken, you're broken and your body will not perform as a healthy person does with a healthy thyroid.
ON THE OTHER HAND...My Family Physician encouraged me to read about it.
Shall see how the new meds I am taking will help or hinder my thyroid health. I stayed faithful taking a synthetic thyroid medicine for 5 and a half years that caused weight gain along with other ailments that made life miserable.
I wanted to give this synthroid health plan 5 years and 5 years I did plus half of another. After being diagnosed with thyroid cancer, surgery followed to remove one lobe and then a second surgery took the other side. Radioactive ablation was experienced. What I called a Radioactive Vacation gave me some time out of our old house where I read a lot and watched some television. Drank lots of water and prayed.
Three years later my Husband would go through surgeries as well. We compare notes and his hospital stay was a better experience for him. I felt like they killed my heart. I was not instructed to change my pajamas, take three showers a day and change my bed sheets often. I laid in the radioactive sweat and didn't know any better. The medical staff did not instruct me to change my clothing often or to shower. I'm not sure what to think of this. We used different hospitals and different methods.
I have switched from T4 Only Treatment to Armour Natural Desiccated Thyroid Hormone. Shall see how this works, but last night as I was walking about the upstairs I started to sweat and for the first time in about 10 years when I started to sweat I could feel my body actually cool off by itself as it is suppose to. With the T4 Only Treatment when over heating, one just over heats and does not cool off quickly. Very abnormal. Last night I cooled off and could tell. It was a very nice feeling that I have missed. Like a breath of air from heaven blowing across me. I rejoice.
Jibber Jabbering in the month of March. I can hear the front porch wind chimes singing their song because the breeze is blowing. So pleasant, but wished I was in a house in the country being isolated by the quiet.
Keeping Life Simpler but interesting.
Continuing to downsize, organize and clean.
God bless and all the best to you,
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