Well actually i think it's a good thing your doing and first it's keeping your brain functioning to the best of your ability and secondly a subject you admire and thirdly where your attending semnars.
I don't ask about my magnesium or vit D level mind you those show up in regular blood tests and i know if they was'nt right i'd soon have a phone call. I read you have epsom salts in the bath i used to do that and don't your skin feel lovely and soft but living here it's a stand in shower for my seizures and ste misses a good bath.lol plus i hope you get your tablets as i always have to wait a couple of days to get mine altogether.
Ann i sitting here laughing at your last bit...bless your daughter mate that's made my night.lol xxx
Aww, thanks dragonfli, it means alot to me to know that I am being a blessing in someone else life, I feel like that is what God wants us to do for each other. I have had so many people to be a blessing to me in my life, people like the ones on LWL that I have never met. God definitely works in mysterious ways and I love him for it. My spiritual side keeps me lifted up and positive, don't get me wrong the depression dominates me sometimes, but I cry or whatever I need to do to get it out and pick myself up, talk to my LWL family and keeping on pushing, cause I dont have time for that, other people depend on me like my handicapped daughter and my husband for support as well. Many blessings and hugs.
draginfli said:
Fighter -
I'm praying for you! Social Security puts us through the ropes before we get approved, but keep praying and keep fighting! We need their help until the day that we can go back to work and do what it is that we want to do and what we can do.
You have such a positive attitude and you are keeping your faith in God who is the only one who can carry us through. God puts people in our lives to help us and bless us and support us - people like who are on this support site. People who we can also help, bless and support! I let the depression get to me, you may too at times, but I sure do like your message today! It is positive and encouraging! Thank you!
How you pick thing out and keep on with them like you've explained not me...i enjoy coming on the forum now i've joined because your a second family to me concerning everyday aspects of Lupus and if i don't come on here i go on my staffysite, as i just adore staffs and besides that my reading but in between if my minds ok i do like looking things up on google on proper medical sites but it sounds like we're all trying hard to keep our minds functioning to the best we possibly can.
Luv Terri xxx
draginfli said:
Ann -
So THAT is why I only want chocolate sometimes and not others! When I want it boy, do I ever HAVE to have it though! I can't wait to get into reading the blog. I'm like Tez though, my brain fog prevents me from getting it all the first time around and I tend to ask a lot of questions that I wouldn't have had to ask before. I'll find some really interesting information and save it to a file about Lupus on my desktop so I can re-read it. I re-read tons of stuff and sometimes it is like brand new information after only a few days! LOL There is a free program to download called "Evernote" that helps me keep it all organized.
Tez,
I made a goal for my mental fog that I would learn something brand new everyday on the internet. I don't set limits like that it has to be about something medical. I choose a website like MSN or "How Stuff Works" and then pick out a subject and learn about it. Sometimes I don't have much energy and don't spend much time on it, but I save what I've learned on that free program I mentioned - "Evernote" and I'll go back to it later. I've learned some fun stuff, interesting stuff and it entertains me, makes me feel 'smart' again. :) Another program that I used to have on my last computer (I spilt 7-up on it though) was called "One Note by Microsoft" it is just about the same thing as "Evernote" and helps organize thoughts and other things that we learn or want to save for later. :)
Ang
Ann A. said:
Tez - yes, this going to school to study something fairly demanding is my way of trying to maintain some cognitive functioning. My kids laugh at me. They say it has always been the same. I can't remember which key opens the door, but I can quote 98 percent of what I have read last year. PS - one of my textbook authors explains the craving for chocolate as a magnesium deficiency - of course I take my magnesium and I still want chocolate. In a few minutes I am leaving for the pharmacy, I will leave with Epsom salts and chocolate. I think that it is difficult to keep a focus on nutrition when health goes so wrong. And as people we think think about food rather than nutrients. We think about the foods we like the taste of and the foods that make us feel good and the foods that are easy to get and to prepare. We don't think about nutrients. No one but nutritionists think about fat soluble vitamins and water soluble vitamins and major minerals and trace minerals. No one but nutritionists think about food in terms of the chemical compounds into which it is changed by digestion and how these chemicals build us up and break us down and carry chemical and electrical signals from one part of the body to another. My daughter says, "Mommie, pass the mac and cheese,. do not tell me bout its chemical composition."