{"id":7383,"date":"2011-06-14T08:45:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T15:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltdrivebetty.com\/wyzwmnsworld\/?p=7383"},"modified":"2011-06-14T08:56:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T15:56:29","slug":"live-and-in-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?p=7383","title":{"rendered":"Live and in Person&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Affirmation:<br \/>\nI choose this path.<br \/>\nMy path is filled with promise.<\/p>\n<p>a FB friend had this on his status today<br \/>\nI think that each day I wake feeling like it&#8217;s new<br \/>\nbut somewhere along the line<br \/>\nover the course of the day<br \/>\nI get &#8220;the rude awakening&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working overtime at being positive<br \/>\nbut sometimes ya really gotta just<br \/>\n&#8220;let it go&#8221;<br \/>\ncurrently the fadder&#8217;s favorite saying<br \/>\nand his ability to &#8220;let it go&#8221;<br \/>\nby saying the words<br \/>\nout loud<br \/>\nis driving all of us<br \/>\nbonkers LoL<\/p>\n<p>another friend&#8217;s FB status said:<br \/>\n&#8220;I am an oasis of truth<br \/>\nin a modern desert of political correctness<br \/>\nthat accepts mediocrity,<br \/>\nwhere everyone is a winner<br \/>\nand no one has to TRY<br \/>\nto be declared spectacular.<br \/>\nDo not ask me questions<br \/>\nyou do not want the answer to.<br \/>\nI will not conform<br \/>\nand tell you<br \/>\nwhat you want to hear.<br \/>\nI will not drink<br \/>\nyour Kool-aid<br \/>\nand tell you that<br \/>\nit&#8217;s OK to give up<br \/>\nbecause<br \/>\n&#8220;at least you tried&#8221;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>now what kind of dichotomy<br \/>\ndo I find myself in<br \/>\nwhere both of these status&#8217;<br \/>\nprofoundly affect me<br \/>\nthis morning?<\/p>\n<p>must be the return to coffee<br \/>\nYay!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m off<br \/>\nto another Dr&#8217;s apt<br \/>\nthis morning<br \/>\nI wonder what stellar observations<br \/>\nand profound facts<br \/>\nthis one will have for me?<\/p>\n<p>a friend suggested yesterday:<br \/>\nwhy go back to eating<br \/>\nthe way you did before?<br \/>\nit&#8217;s not like not eating<br \/>\nanything you enjoy<br \/>\nhas made your disease<br \/>\nstop in it&#8217;s tracks?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think that it might have<br \/>\nmade me one of the lucky one&#8217;s<br \/>\nmaybe eating that way is the reason<br \/>\nthat I&#8217;ve had this disease for 30 years<br \/>\nand been in remission for about 10<br \/>\nand mostly been able to deal with it<br \/>\nwithout too much bother&#8230;<br \/>\nand am just now starting<br \/>\nto have the kind of trouble<br \/>\nothers that have the disease<br \/>\nhave reported to me<\/p>\n<p>but have I really been in remission?<br \/>\nhow is it that I&#8217;ve enslaved myself<br \/>\nto the prospect of &#8220;medical benefits&#8221;<br \/>\nallowed my self to be mistreated<br \/>\nand abused for same<br \/>\nand religiously taken<br \/>\nconservatively speaking<br \/>\n&#8220;a bajillion&#8221; pills<br \/>\nevery day<br \/>\nwatched my hair fall out<br \/>\nwatched myself gain<br \/>\nover 100lbs<br \/>\nate only what I was supposed to<br \/>\nand still<br \/>\nended<br \/>\nup<br \/>\nhere?<\/p>\n<p>WTF?<\/p>\n<p>course there&#8217;s also the suggestion<br \/>\nthat the gut disease and diabetes<br \/>\nare exacerbating each other&#8230;.<br \/>\nwho knows?<\/p>\n<p>the VOD also suggests<br \/>\nthat it&#8217;s no longer<br \/>\nridiculous to consider<br \/>\nthat my having had<br \/>\nabdominal surgery<br \/>\nat 21 days of age<br \/>\n(for the first time)<br \/>\nall those years ago<br \/>\n(almost 56 yrs ago)<br \/>\ncould have any bearing<br \/>\non an abdominal disease<br \/>\nthat for all intents<br \/>\nand purposes<br \/>\nacts like<br \/>\nmy guts are rotting<br \/>\nfrom the inside out<br \/>\nand I&#8217;m back to eating<br \/>\n(like) tapioca<br \/>\nbut sugarless tapioca LoL<\/p>\n<p>(side rant:<br \/>\ncan I just say?<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sick to death of people<br \/>\nsuggesting that I&#8217;d loose weight<br \/>\nif I just ate more veggies<br \/>\nor legumes<br \/>\nor less fat?<br \/>\nfuck off!<br \/>\ndo you think I don&#8217;t know that?<br \/>\nyou go suggest it to the gut Dr then!<br \/>\nend rant)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had to make some hard decisions<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve cancelled my holidays<br \/>\nbecause of the job search<br \/>\nand it&#8217;s deadline<br \/>\nthe added stress of blood work<br \/>\nseveral times a week<br \/>\nand overall malaise<br \/>\nI just can&#8217;t justify it<br \/>\nno matter how desperately<br \/>\nI want to go and sit<br \/>\naround a fire<br \/>\nwith my friends<br \/>\nI just can&#8217;t go<\/p>\n<p>so<br \/>\nwith all the shit currently on my plate<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t even get excited about<br \/>\nthe race to the Stanley Cup<br \/>\nlike every other person I know<br \/>\nseriously&#8230;<br \/>\nI.don&#8217;t.care.right.now<br \/>\nsome rabid Canadian<br \/>\nI turned out to be eh?<\/p>\n<p>I keep trying to remind myself<br \/>\nthat it&#8217;s all cos of the full moon<br \/>\non the 15th<br \/>\nbut mostly I&#8217;m in a feast or famine stage<br \/>\nI do nothing<br \/>\nor I do so much I hurt myself.<br \/>\nno in between for me dammit.<\/p>\n<p>I remain<br \/>\nmy very own<br \/>\n&#8220;live and in person&#8221;<br \/>\nconundrum<\/p>\n<p>heeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrreeeeeeee&#8217;s Wyz!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Affirmation: I choose this path. 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