Summer of Self Care Week 1 wrapup
Jun. 8th, 2014 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_lucy21I could look at this week as a bust. I mean, I more or less had an asthma attack and wound up being basically sedentary all week while fighting prednisone side effects and trying to get my lungs to be mostly functional again.
But the fact is, this is self care, too. This is part of the reality of chronic illness. And I’m a very lucky person with chronic illness- I can pass for “normal” about 90% of the time so long as I take my meds and am reasonably careful about asthma triggers. And you would think I would recognize that and be more accepting of it, since I’ve had asthma since 1984 and don’t remember life without inhalers. But, it’s still hard and I still feel like I’m screwing up somehow when my lungs just decide to up and not work.
However, I am feeling better and I was able to do things like clean my apartment (mostly. There’s a couple things that should still happen, but they’re not critical) and go to the farmer market and the grocery, etc. this weekend. So, I think I am cautiously green-lighted to get back on track next week. I am going to limit the working out to the swimming group (which started this week and obviously, I missed the first two sessions, but it really couldn’t be helped) and hopefully they will be accommodating of me needing to take it a little easy. I am going to keep working on the food. Right now, I need to concentrate on enough food. We can work on quality of food later. Even with the prednisone, I wasn’t quite reaching the target (although this round has made me feel less like a bottomless pit than usual. Or, I have been hungry, but totally uninterested in eating, so I couldn’t tell I was hungry). Even with eating, shall we say, less than optimally, I am hitting most of my nutrient goals, however, according to Cron. I am hitting protein and most of the major vitamins (without supplements, although I'm still taking the Omega 3s and Vitamin D, because I have a diagnosed vitamin deficiency with D and I function better on more Omega 3 than I get, because I don't eat fish (it's in the "may help, won't hurt" category for both depression and ADHD. Also, good for triglyerides, which are an issue)). I'm short on Potassium and Magnesium, though. So that is comforting.
But the fact is, this is self care, too. This is part of the reality of chronic illness. And I’m a very lucky person with chronic illness- I can pass for “normal” about 90% of the time so long as I take my meds and am reasonably careful about asthma triggers. And you would think I would recognize that and be more accepting of it, since I’ve had asthma since 1984 and don’t remember life without inhalers. But, it’s still hard and I still feel like I’m screwing up somehow when my lungs just decide to up and not work.
However, I am feeling better and I was able to do things like clean my apartment (mostly. There’s a couple things that should still happen, but they’re not critical) and go to the farmer market and the grocery, etc. this weekend. So, I think I am cautiously green-lighted to get back on track next week. I am going to limit the working out to the swimming group (which started this week and obviously, I missed the first two sessions, but it really couldn’t be helped) and hopefully they will be accommodating of me needing to take it a little easy. I am going to keep working on the food. Right now, I need to concentrate on enough food. We can work on quality of food later. Even with the prednisone, I wasn’t quite reaching the target (although this round has made me feel less like a bottomless pit than usual. Or, I have been hungry, but totally uninterested in eating, so I couldn’t tell I was hungry). Even with eating, shall we say, less than optimally, I am hitting most of my nutrient goals, however, according to Cron. I am hitting protein and most of the major vitamins (without supplements, although I'm still taking the Omega 3s and Vitamin D, because I have a diagnosed vitamin deficiency with D and I function better on more Omega 3 than I get, because I don't eat fish (it's in the "may help, won't hurt" category for both depression and ADHD. Also, good for triglyerides, which are an issue)). I'm short on Potassium and Magnesium, though. So that is comforting.