Awesome day—mostly… We decided to extend our juice fast into
today because I was feeling so good. The
mixture was much more bitter thought—we’re not sure if the drink was just
finally getting to us or if the batch of lemons we used were not good. Church was great—as always—or at least as
well as it can be with an 8 and a 4 year old helping to draw away your
attention.
It began snowing today—and actually snowed about 2-3 inches
in 45 minutes. I stopped at a friend’s
house with my son at about 2:00pm and when we left at 2:40 we could barley make
it up the hill. I went down to the
church to help shovel the walks so they would be ready for the last
congregation to let out. All these
storms are making me miss my 4X4 more and more—I can’t remember if I mentioned
in an earlier post that we sold it in December to help with some expenses and
have yet to get another vehicle. I hope
I don’t have to wait too long for my 4X4!
My wife has had such a hard time through this cleanse. On my way home she called me and wondered
where I was and I could tell she was a little bugged that it had taken so long
to get home—I didn’t know she was having such a rough time today. Her fever is getting better but she is still
running a 100-101 degree temperature. It
is possible it is the flu, but none of us (my two boys nor I) have any flu
symptoms, so we are pointing to something else.
Part of the cleansing mentality (and this goes for any
reason you do a juice/body cleanse) is that you step back through your
sicknesses you had when you were young—It does make me a little worried about
what may be coming my way, but my poor wife had Ecoli a number years ago while
she was serving as a missionary in Argentina.
We talked about that and she started to remember that it affected her
for 6 months while she was out—which she had forgotten about because she only
remembered a couple of days she stayed in bed sick. She worked through her sickness mostly—even
having some other missionaries hold her hair up while she vomited. She is a work horse!! Our thought is this may be her body working
back through that terrible sickness which means the best is yet to come if that
is true!!
My wife was feeling so horrible when I got home that she
really seemed ready to quit and was almost crying—it made me feel so bad for
her. We decided to stop the juice and
make a soup in our blend tec (included distilled water, 1 garlic clove, some
spinach, kale, celery, and a very under ripe avocado, mixed with some basil and
sea salt). Now the program says we are
suppose to have raw vegetables before cooking them, but the blend tec actually
doesn’t cook the food just heat it to 115 degrees, so we thought it would be
OK. Well… my body got a shock—within 10
minutes it felt like I was taking huge steps back.
I was ready to quit the diet right then and there; I could
only imagine what my sweatie is going through.
We pulled out some spring mix and snacked on it while watching a show on
our computer—it did the trick and I pulled out of my very tiny funk. I must be the biggest wimp out there, whining
about how I feel when it doesn’t even seem to come close to how my wife feels;
I’ll have to make it up to her some how…
Still snowing quite a bit and I am on deck to be
responsible—along with some other members of our congregation—to make sure the
walks at the church stay clear (as possible) throughout the week; with as much
snow as we may get this week it looks like I am in for a treat!
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