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G'day to all,
to all the newbies, and 
to any birthdays i missed I wont get to catch up on all the posts so i hope all are well,
and especially Tex, I hope you are surviving summer harvest, the forum and finalising the book!!
life has been busy,
medically, last week i was diagnosed with Lichen Sclerosis we are confident that 6 week treatment with steroid will halt this. Long term i may have to consider an immune suppressant
life, work is busy, and it has been a cold winter here in Toowoomba.
on the weekend my dear friends (the ones that live in the train carriage house) were married in Sydney.
I was bridesmaid, best man, photographer, reader, etc etc it was a small intimate wedding with 5 guests (that included the minister and his wife).
in the lead up I was quite busy as i made my skirt for the wedding ( i could not find a MC friendly one in my price bracket)
The trip to Sydney went well with me taking my 7kgs of cooler bag with precooked frozen meals, we stayed in 'the manse' of the sandstone church with the minister and his wife, whom i had never met before and was a bit nervous about staying in their house. they were beautiful beautiful people, the wife was a doctor and drum roll, she figured out my diagnosis based on some brief discussions as she has an LC patient.......
the power of Vit D3
Despite me upping my Vit D3 to about 10000iu per day in the two weeks before the wedding to protect me against the winter germs that are here in Aus, Monday morning i awoke with cough, congestion in the lungs, sore throat that has been the flu this year over here (NB all the people that had the flu vaccination still got this ?virus)
it has affected about 30-40% of the people at work, some are onto their second lot of antibiotics for sinus/ear/bronchial infections. Some have had symptoms for over 4 weeks.
i continued with the Vit D3, about 15000 iu per day and gallons of water, i have been having about 4-5 litres of water a day. the increased amount of toilet stops is not an issue as i have needed to get up and cough, and have more water.
I have taken paracetamol with codeine for the joint aches and temperature, the only other things i am doing is Vit D3, zinc, water, small low inflammation meals and rest.
3.5 days in i am feeling alive again, the cough is still there but the mucus is clear. i am pretty sure the Vit D3 is helping me avoid infection. I have my chiro/kinesiology apt today that will help reduce the inflammation.
my chest, shoulders, back and stomach are very sore from all the coughing, and i am still quite tired. but i am going to continue with the big doses of the Vit D3 until the congestion is gone.
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