What a lousy day! This cold is killing me. I'm coughing up and spitting up stuff that couldn't actually be a part of my body. Combined with the arthritis I'm having a hell of a day. This, right after I find out about and started using DMSO.
This stuff works. It doesn't cure anything nor does it get rid of all the pain. The one thing it does help a lot with with the pain in the back of my neck. This is one of the most inconvenient locations this arthritis attacks. Mostly at night when I lay my head down on a pillow. It seems like a surface pain, but it's miserable when I'm trying to sleep. I usually sleep on my side, but now it's almost like i have to because laying flat of my back causes my neck to hurt the worst. The DMSO does provide some relief for this area such that i can sleep better.
I'm finding out I was right about the steroids causing me to have a sore throat after I stop taking it. I finished the steroid series two days ago, and now my throat is hurting. It feels like the adrenaline glands. I can pretty well ignore it now that I know the cause. Ice cream makes it feel more better.
I don't feel the slightest philosophical today. I'm down in the dumps over all my health problems. If I survive, I'll write more later.
It's later. Something remarkable happened, and fortunately I had company this afternoon who helped me to understand what might have happened. I don't have to describe for anybody what it's like to have a lousy cold. I had all the lousy symptoms. I went to the drugstore and got some Nyquil, and looked for something that might dry up all this snotty fluid. I had never used it before, but decided to get some Claritin-D.
It worked really well. But, there is more. My arthritic symptoms dissipated. What could this be. Rainey explained to me that the chemicals that are causing my joints to hurt are called histamines. Claritin-D (and other OTCs) are called anti-histamines. This is just great! If I get to hurting too bad I'll just take some cold medicine. I'm not totally doomed to hell in a handbasket without surcease.
This pain I experience seems to start getting set, and once that starts I've found out from experience it's not gonna get any better unless I do something. What to do? What to do? Finding out that histamines are what's making things hurt is a big deal. There's gotta be a lotta natural anti-histamines in the world of nature. Besides that, how the hell are these histamines getting inside my body and making me feel like shit? I'm amazed I feel so much better since I took the anti-histamine pill.
I think the entire world is ready for this frigging Presidential Election to be over with. It started just after the last election. Is this what the life of the United States is gonna be about until the end of time. One election after the other until the world explodes? In all my years I've never seen anything to beat this. I've seen them start a year or so before the election, but this has been ridiculous.
I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
