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Keep it up - glad the NSAIDs are helping.   The skin issues have happened for me, too as I age.  Who knows why? All the meds....?  Just old skin?  I am so thankful for one day when I don't itch or have a shingles outbreak...

I am hoping the pain subsides, the chiro keeps working on you, and you are able to recover - and perhaps just go a 3/4 speed -which for you would be good...1/2 better - but that may not be in your character as you are such a go getter. 

I have gone from being a go getter to a slow getter  I am still trying to get in to a new GI...endless waiting...accepting that since this is not at this stage an emergency, that's how it will be.  My nausea has lifted some - thank God.  If it had continued at that level, I think I would have just gone to the ER and faced the financial consequences of that choice....but it has lessened. 

Keep me posted on how it's going and know I am really hoping for an upswing - just remember - lower your expectations - this it turns out is not "giving up" or anything - quite the opposite - it means being realistic and then as I said, when things swing up some, it's just so great.  It is really a necessary coping skill for aging/chronic illness....sort of Zen and Buddhist really.  Acceptance of what is.  Does not mean you don't try to change things you don't like, get well, feel better....means you don't expect your life/the world/work/etc.etc. to conform to some idea of what it is "supposed to" be like. You are a smart, educated person - you probably already know all this - but I did too - putting into ACTION in my own life took me at least 7 years of unlearning old patterns and becoming almost a completely different person.  This worked for me - it may not be they way for you - just an idea.  I am happier and more free feeling when I am not miserably sick...I do more of what I want and less of what I think I "should" be doing.  The endless should can drive anyone in this culture mad.

 

 

 

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