I want to share the extreme peace and happiness that is slowly spreading over me. It has been a little over two years on an annoyingly inconvenient path.
I have to call it that because it hasn’t been absolutely horrible. For the most part it was tolerable. But here’s the abridged history.
Two years ago on Thanksgiving, I tripped on the couch and fell face first in to a dog fight that I was trying to break up. Several stitches in my face were ok. The damaged nerve over my eye lead to continual migraines. The migraines lead to an upset stomach that never seemed to quite go away. The nerve is pretty much healed, it only bothers me sometimes now.
I expected the tummy thing to get better once the migraines weren’t so constant. It would get better and worse and better. Then I had a minor outpatient surgery that affected my abdominal area a little over a year ago and that kicked the tummy irritations in to high gear.
Turns out all the irritations made my gall bladder mad. That diagnosis took awhile because there were no stones, so it all looked fine. Except it would randomly get angry. Moody gallbladder.
I had that removed. But then didn’t rest enough and tore myself open inside and did a little more damage. Since then food has been more of an enemy than a friend.
And all this time I blamed the food 100%. I drink a “healthy” pop. But it turns out that was an issue too.
So here we are, week three of fasting Monday/Tuesday. Last week had most of Wednesday also. And I feel fantastic!!! My insides are finally having time to calm down and heal without constantly having to deal with things.
The first week I thought it was a fluke. Last week I wasn’t sure because I had a sinus migraine for days. This week though . . today . . I am sure what this is. It is relief!!! Tomorrow I will have chicken for dinner. And I will keep up with my obscene amounts of water per day.
But do you know what this is? This is healing. This is freedom. This is feeling stronger and better by letting my body have time to do its thing.
Tonight I am thankful that this fasting is doing so well! My current plan is to continue one to two days per week, every week, until the days that I eat feel just like the days that I don’t. Then I will know that the healing is 100% complete. 🙂
Momma's Silver Lining 