Enjoying a Sunday an extremely warm afternoon in Troutman, NC.
Kind Regards
and smiles -K
living with depression
Happy Spring!!
Swooping in to say
Happy First day of Spring!
Took my first baking soda bath today! Nice relaxing, detoxing, skin softening, mind slowing-20 minutes, to start my day.
Ahhhh! 😁🌷🌷
How did you start the
First day of Spring?
Looking forward to your comments!
😉
#winning
💕🌷💕
Kind Regards – K
Photography copyright and compliments of K of theBlackWallBlog.
Text 2 pic app.
TODAY WE CELEBRATE! 2.16.2019
Celebrate! Celebrate! Dance to the music… (Three Dog Night)
Good morning,
Yesterday morning, when I took the dogs out for their morning walk… the sky, almost daylight bright from the light beaming from the moon and stars, looked as if someone had tossed hand fulls of cotton balls all about. It was an awesome sight! This morning, it’s dark and drizzling.
BUT there is “nothing” that can darken this day!
TODAY, I will be attending my youngest grand daughter’s birthday party. It will be the first time I will be able to appear in person, not via FACETIME!
Happy Dance!! WOOT WOOT!!
Tomorrow, I will start the med change, for today I will revel in what I have been hoping to do for FIVE years!
TODAY, WE SHALL CELEBRATE LIFE WITH DANCING, SINGING, ENJOYING GRANDDAUGHTER HUGS AND EATING CAKE!!
#WINNING
xxxooxxxoooxxxoooxxxooo
Kind Regards and wishing you the best day- K
Healthy is GREAT! But…. A Challenge to My Health Conscious Friends 2.13.2019
Live healthy!! Eat right!
Exercise!!
This supplement helps with this and that and also gives a boost to, etc…
Take this med to help with your anxiety… GREAT! NOT!!
These days, so many individuals are suffering from high blood pressure! Almost every
healthy supplement states- will help lower your blood pressure.
Fantastic, RIGHT?
WRONG!
There are some of us who have a naturally low blood pressure.
Mine happens to be around 90/60!
If I lower it anymore, I’ll be on the floor! ha!
My standard heart rate equals 57. Not too bad, eh?
Walking around in a dazed, weakened stupor is not only dangerous
but DEFINITELY NOT FUN!
Interestingly enough, as most of my friends are being told to watch their salt intake,
I have instructions to increase mine. Hey! What can I say? SORRY!
Much like my dad, I have always been a pepper lover!! If it’s not covered in black,
delectable, coarse speckles, it needs more! 😉
Yesterday, for Valentine’s day and my 57th (eek!) birthday, I had a scheduled primary care visit.
**He is literally taking me off my 12 year anti-anxiety regiment of 1.5 xanax in am, .5- 2 hours later, .5- 2 hours later and .5 at bedtime- cold turkey and switching me to 1mg of lorazepam twice per day, and upping my 25 mg Topiramate to twice per day.
I checked with the local pharmacist. She is not impressed that he is having me quit xanax cold turkey, but said is should not be life threatening. GOOD NEWS!
Unfortunately, I will be experiencing withdrawals. OH SHUCKS!
I am researching, things to have on hand for healthy cleansing/nutritious smoothies, hydration and whatever else I can find.
Here is THE CHALLENGE for all my
HEALTH CONSCIOUS friends out there:
Find me some healthy lifestyle foods and smoothies,
that will “NOT DECREASE” my blood pressure,
PLUS
Any HELPFUL TIPS you can give me, to get through this transition
will be way beyond appreciated. (I am literally scared sh*tless)
Anxiously, awaiting your comments!!
Kind Regards and Happy Friday- K
After the Rooster Crows 2.6.2019
Good morning.
Happy Wednesday!
According to Siri, my I-phone, Troutman, NC should have a temperature
Around 70 degrees today! yahoo!
Do you have a morning routine?
I do.
Start the coffee, walk the dogs, feed the fur children, Marbre’, my cat, then my beloved canines, Chief and Abby.
Pour a cup of coffee.
Pop open the computer, a fresh word doc and type or grab a pen, my journal and write.
There is something about putting pen to paper, I find calming and soothing.
Early Morning Journaling
My scrawled words
Enrich the paper
Wtih sentiments, thoughts and wishes.
From dreams, to logging life’s events.
Whether fond memories, frustration or woes.
Releasing all upon a blank sheet,
Creates an inner harmony
No other early morning
Activity can beat.
Writing or typing allows me
An opportunity to
Makes sense of some,
Chuckle at others,
Or allows me, to set free
Any negativity from yesterday.
A clean slate,
Enables my heart,
My soul, my mind
To open, be trusting,
And accept
All the possiblities,
And potential,
Of a fresh, new day!
I am thinking of creating a journal with a large variety of life’s pictures, from a group of friends photos scattered throughout. The clicks can be used for writing exercises or for the viewing pleasure of the person who still journals. What do you think?
Kind Regards and #winning – K
Own the Day! 1.31.2019
Good morning all.
19 degrees here in North Carolina! We are extremely lucky considering other parts of the country are experiencing sub-zero temps.
I wanted to share a little something I wrote a few weeks ago. When you endure days with anxiety, panic and depression, you often have to reach deep to find your strength.
Writing brings my inner strength to the forefront of my mind and helps me grab onto the life I deserve! Putting my thoughts on paper, re-enforces the positive and gives me a little extra push, for my continuous journey forward.
Part of #winning is learning what it takes to be your own cheerleader!
Own the Day
‘Own the day or the day could own you.’- Kallie Knight
She was back! The drug, the doctor had prescribed day before yesterday, had taken her to a euphoria buzz, onto fog brain, then about 12 hours later, weakness, severe headache, heart palpitations accompanied by a sore throat.
Thursday had been a waste. She couldn’t sleep. She couldn’t think clearly enough to perform the simple task of washing the dishes.
Damn doctors, she thought. Why can’t they listen? She had told her new primary care physician, that anything he prescribed needed to be the lowest dose then divided by half. Thank heavens she had taken half a pill, 10 mg of the 20 mg prescription.
The drug? ESCITLOPRAM. It was supposed to enhance her mood, work with her current depression med. Now, she knew, when and IF she attempted it again, she was would only take 5mg.
Right now, she had responsibilities. Her dogs, prepping to finally, after a month and a half of living in an interim place, to MOVE! A REAL apartment! The place she would call home.
K smiled as she looked forward to hanging her hat!
YES! Today she would start to move a few things. Luckily, her daughter who currently lived there, had the second bathroom cleaned out. Today, she would pick the items that could fit into that room. Only, fifteen minutes away from her current location it was like the difference from night and day.
Troutman, NC was a slice of heaven! Acres of fields, open space with the bonus of horses and cows, down the road. It was the one place, her whole being felt at home.
FINALLY, she felt HOPEFUL!
Doing the best one can, under any circumstance is what earns a person the title of survivor.
Feeling intense relief, she sipped her morning coffee, and felt exhilarated!
She KNEW-
TODAY, SHE OWNED THE DAY!
Compliments of Zen to Zany!!
Kind Regards and #winning – K
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