Vlog: Sitting On Symptoms

Hi!  I hope you had a nice Easter yesterday.  How was it?  Ours was quiet.  Just the two of us this year.

Yesterday also was April Fool's Day.  We didn't play any pranks on each other, though.  How about you?  Did anyone play a prank on you;  did you play a prank on someone else?

Has humor helped you handle your health issues?  If so, how?  I have always tried to find the funny in hospital stays, doctor's visits, life in general.  I have to admit, although I do have a sense of humor and like to find the funny in chronic health issues, I do tend to be serious.  Slapstick, juvenile humor and the like just annoy me.  I love poker-faced humor and great comedic timing.  

Something else I want to talk about today is sitting on symptoms.  You have mysterious symptoms.  Or maybe symptoms that you've had before.  You know what's going on in your gut.  You may think, "Oh no, not again."

Yet, you don't take action.  You don't do anything about it, whether it's mysterious or it's happened before.  

You get more and more nervous, grouchy, tired.  The more that happens the worse the situation gets.

You may try to solve the problem on your own.  Try what worked before, perhaps.  Eat differently.  Take vitamins.  Get more sleep.  But it doesn't work.

I've been there.

So, what should you do?

• Take time out to see your doctor.  I don't care how busy you are with work, home, school, kids....get to your doctor.
• Take time to rest
• Take your medications on schedule.  If you haven't been diligent about that, it could be messing with your system.  
• Be good to yourself.  If you make a mistake, if you haven't had the problem checked out, don't beat yourself up about it.  We all mess up sometimes.  Concentrate on now.  Not what you've done in the past; what you're doing now.  Take care of the issue now.  Be good to yourself.  Forgive yourself.  Take positive action.
• Find the answers.  Finding the answers could help you feel better and able to live your life more fully, healthfully, happily.  You could be living a more fulfilling life.  
• Get on it!