I’m so sorry you were poisoned as well. I suppose we all are to some extent, but when it’s really severe, it can sure cause all kinds of physical problems. What a crazy world we live in.
I just finished reading a library book called the most effective natural cures on earth by Jonny Bowden. He had some interesting ideas and I was just wondering if there was anything in there about detoxing. I just took it back to the library, or I would look in there for you.
I hear you about the decluttering. This fall I will have lived in this house for 27 years; my husband and I moved in here two months before we got married, so I have all of his stuff to deal with, and I swear to God, he had every tool on earth and was prepared for every eventuality. I also have my mom’s stuff. She passed away in 2011. Every time I go down in the basement to try to work on it, my heart sinks, and I turn around and come back upstairs. The garage is stuffed, every closet is stuffed - I certainly don’t remember buying all this, but my husband and I both tended to cling onto things. Sometimes I’ll pull a shirt out of a drawer that I haven’t worn in 20 years and start wearing it again though.
I just came back from an appointment at a gastroenterology clinic where I finally gave in and decided to go because my friends were all nagging at me to do something, but I was so disappointed at the lack of questioning. They don’t even ask you what you eat or about the rest of your life - it’s just so narrow. Of course they want to do a colonoscopy and some kind of a CT scan that looks at your blood vessels or something. I’ll do the CT scan, although I just had one in December, but not that certain kind I guess, but I’m not sure about the colonoscopy. It’s been about 13 years since I had one, so I might do this one more. But I really feel I would be better off with a functional medicine doctor who will ask what I’m eating and what kind of vitamins I’m taking, etc. Too bad they’re so expensive!
A friend of mine just found out she has an enlarged heart – she’s 70 and had no idea. I don’t know if she has high blood pressure or not. You would think that’s something they would find when you were younger, but I never thought about the fact that they just enlarge as you grew. I don’t know if I mentioned that my niece passed away from an enlarged heart, but she had had a heart condition since she was born and she was over-exercising and lost 30 pounds in a short amount of time and she knew she wasn’t supposed to be doing that. She was trying to keep her husband who wasn’t happy in the relationship, but she lost herself instead. Oh well. Tough lesson to learn.
Take care, and I hope life gets easier for both of us in the future. Good luck with your downsizing. I hope to be doing that soon. But in the meantime, the horror! 😩