Tory is a quitter, round 59348239746

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So Blogathon is coming up.

I'd signed up and everything. Got two donors through the Blogathon site. Which is back up this year, because the 'Thon's official, which would make it easier to advertise, get donors, etcetera.

But I hadn't done any advertising. I was waffling on what to do for my usual 'Thon writing project, made harder by the fact that my writerbrain is utterly dormant. And, well.

I've been nebulously sick for six months plus. Constantly congested and fatigued, physically and mentally, with other problems rotating through. (Most recent? Wracking cough.) I've seen my doctor twice about it, and she just gives me antibiotics and tells me to go away and lose weight. Sure, maybe I'm too fat, but I suspect the problem lies elsewhere.

I can barely make it through a normal day on eight or ten hours of sleep. I'm not going to make it through Blogathon.

Yeah, I feel scummy. And I'm very, very sorry. And I feel even worse because there are folks doing Blogathon, including good friends of mine, who have worse health trouble. But I'm just...wiped out.

Blogathon next year. Once I find a better doctor. I hope.

Don't elect me governor of Alaska, y'all.

Comments

[methanopyrus.livejournal.com]

Alternative medicine is good at helping people fix chronic issues with emotional and physical aspects intertwined. You already have great insight that your health depends on mental and physical wellness! This is excellent since our culture, including the doctor, does not readily think so!

I know it is your own cost, but something as simple as consulting a homeopathic doctor and using one of their non-expensive remedies could dramatically change the symptoms you describe. Chinese herbs prescribed by an acupuncturist also do wonders on congestion, cough, boosting energy level, digestion, emotions. We have herbs for all of these things, plus the practitioner would probably support you on dietary aspects that can help.

Also, it is free to meditate. Meditation makes me more in control of my regular breathing and improves my digestion, both of which gone awry create congestion in oriental medicine. For me, I find that breathing techniques reduce my own chronic congestion.