Becoming my grandmother?

[gitanawolf]

Recently I've felt a growing closeness to my maternal grandma. She raised me in my early years for awhile and I spent all my school vacations with her until my parents and I moved to CA when I was 13. She was a down to earth woman, immigrant off the farm somewhere in east Germany back in the late 1880's, who believed more in common sense than "

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[lenskeeper]

A simple life is less stressful. It's been proven with stress comes illness. We bring stress into our lives. We open the door and invite stress. If we simplify life then we have less stress. Your grandmother spent time in her garden, she took care of her needs in simple ways. She knew what she was eating because she grew it or knew where it came from.

I believe your Grandmother was a very wise woman. Emulatinher can be profitable for you. Simplify your life and get rid of as much stress as you can.

I know you can do this because you've already started to eat organic and using your t'ai chi to rid stress. The next thing is to drive less and walk more.
good luck.
Also I agree with your GM and you... doctors can offer more harm with drugs than good.

Simple is certainly it...

[gitanawolf]

LOL! :D Since I became an undesirable for hiring purposes, life became "simple" very, very fast. The stress didn't go away for a couple of years, though, as I tried to fix my unemployability problem, gained false hopes from the deaf advocate (but did get free state equipment like a TTY, etc.) and even a vocational school program, then finally just gave up and realized home is where I am supposed to be, I guess. :=O Long bumpy journey of acceptance, grief for what was lost, etc

[chatalaine]

Ooohhh, this really spoke to me. I too am leery of all the medications that we are prescribed as a matter of routine these days. Having watched my Mom take "This, and also these, and oh, these too" and then when the side effects kicked in: "What? You feel funny? Well, take this too

Thank you!

[gitanawolf]

I enjoyed reading your link, about growing up, cooking, the foods, etc. I grew up with a mom who sounds like she cooked similar to yours. My mom's generation went for the convenience foods of the 50s and weren't into the "from scratch" traditions of their mothers. Both my sets of grandparents were poor immigrants, little education, from Europe, in the late 1800s. Off the farms. Great cooks! My Hungarian grandmother brought all the wonderful pastry recipes as well. I never learned to cook with her, either. We spent little time visiting them, and much more time with my mother's mother, who cooked basic farm foods like fried chicken, casseroles, baked streudel and so on, being German

[chatalaine]

Dammit, I commented on this last night - where did it go

[gitanawolf]

Yup, pretty much my regular doc and the endocrinologists are pill pushers, too. My acupuncture is also an RN, so she knows both sides of the aisle, so to speak. She always must caution me, that she will help if she thinks she can, but still pushes me to be checked out by an MD, then make my decision, which she will accommodate if she thinks she can really help me... Same with my chiropractor.

I always feel kind of caught in the middle, though, you know. Both chiropractor and acupuncturist must be careful of their legalities in their licensing, and know that the medical establishment dis-respects them and tries to scare patients into not pursuing holistic alternatives. It's warfare and the patient is caught in the middle, and the holistic practitioners are hamstrung. UGH!

[chatalaine]

Oh there it is!! I get it - I can't see it just scrolling through my flist.

Waiddaminnit...this happened before, didn't it? Jeez. This menopause thing isn't funny!

LOL! :D

[gitanawolf]

No worries. You brought up something a little different in posting the second time, so it was all to the good! :P HUGS!