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I just wanted to thank you all for your support in my recovery! Thank you so much for the prayers and supportive and caring words! I am doing much better and know that it is because of such supportive friends! Things are much better now and do still have a long way to go, but its much easier now than it was before, so I'm purty durn happy! Sending my love and support back at each one of you! LuAnn

Ok, the last blog apologized for not being on here for a long time due to the house and jumping in my hands, arms & legs due to back & neck problems.  Well, 2 days later my husband & daughter took me to the doc again because the jumping in my legs got worse and I passed out standing up 3 times.  The doc sent me to the hospital via ambulance and I spent 7 days there, 3 of which I have no memory of because I was in what is called an "open-eyed coma" because I had encephilitis (swelling of the brain).  Yeah, that's weird!  Encephilitis can be caused by degenerative diseases, so still came from the spine.  Anyway, hope every one is well.  I working on being well.  It takes a long time to recover from this, but hey, I remembered I had an account here, so that's a real good sign! lol  Take care!  LuAnn  

I'm sorry I haven't been online lately. I've had some health issues dealing with the disk disease and osteoarthritis in my spine. It is still difficult to type because of some jumping in my hands, but the severe jumping in my arms and legs is being controlled with medicine now...thank GOD! I had an hour of sleep in 36 hours last week which finally made me go to the Dr. When I can no longer sleep because of the jumping, I know its time to go see the Dr! lol Halllllo! hehehe Also, we've been doing some home repair since the new year and that's why I haven't beeen on here in January, February and March, which is probably what also caused the jumping legs and arms because I was doing things that I know I'm not supposed to do, but I must sau, saved us $200/month this winter, soooo is it worth it...I say "yes" since I don't have medical insurance and it did help with the Dr visits hehehe...probably broke even actrually lol Thanks to all of u who sent messages, I'm sure they helped even though u didn't know what was going on!  Your the bestest friends EVER! hehehe

 

Hope u all r fine and having a great year (I know one of u isn't so well). LuAnn

Well, the new year is here and I've been spending a lot of time exploring and implementing organic foods, organic gardening, feng shui (I think that's how u spell it lol) and moving our furniture around to get the most energy or relaxation in each room of the house, and natural healing through food and teas. I've learned so much and I'm so excited about what I've learned!

Ok, here's one! For all men! If you want to avoid prostrate problems, eat one Brazil Nut per day! Yup! It keeps swelling down and gives nutrients that aid in inhibiting prostrate problems!

Here's another one! If you have arthritis, drink 3 cups per day of Tension Tamer Tea (Celestial Seasonings) and Peppermint Tea. Put the tea bags in your empty coffee pot, put 10 cups water to run through the coffee maker and let the tea soak (steep) for about 10 min. I have bad Osteoarthritis and Degenerative Disk Disease and my hands got to the point where they were numb all the time and the pain was unbelievable! I started drinking this combo of tea and within about 10 min, the numbness started going away and after a coupe of days, the pain had gone down from a "10" to a "4"! Also, if you have allergies or a cold, the ole Peppermint tea will open up your sinuses!!! Drink it and inhale it!

One more! Eat an apple a day and 3 cups of Green or Black Tea and you can lower your cholesterol by 19% in one month! Oatmeal works great too, so eat up! And why not buy the old time oatmeal and add your own flavorings? You can add Honey, brown sugar (I use Splenda Brown Sugar), Cinnamon and u can even cut up your apple and put it in your oatmeal before microwaving it and you've got your one apple for the day! There are no preservatives this way and you can control what goes into your oatmeal!  Also, try adding milk instead of water which changes the flavor.  Cool huh!

As for Feng Shui, it sounds weird, but the amount of clutter in your home can actually block your energy and positive outlook. That was the first thing I learned and my husband just laughed because...well, we have a very small house and too much furniture and too much junk and I'm a pile person where I put everything in piles until the cats knock over the piles and I have to go through everything and I throw stuff out! LOL! Also how you arrange your furniture can also effect you. I've been working on de-cluttering (that will take me the rest of my life I'm sure!) and arranging our furniture in each room to create energy, relaxation and comfort. What I found is that our arrangement in the bedroom was putting me in the direct line of fire of the natural energy flow in the room. I wasn't sleeping much to be honest. So I moved the room around and since then, my husband and I are sleeping pretty sound! Weird huh! I haven't painted yet, but blues, soft greens (sage) are good colors for a bedroom. Don't put books and computers and desks in the bedroom because it takes away the restful essence of the bedroom. Jasmine scent is a good one for the bedroom because it relaxes you and...well...if ur frisky, it gets u in the mood! hehehe Jasmine also had anti-bacterial and anti-viral effects and keeps moths out of your closets and drawers!

Ok, that's enough of what I've been learning for now! I'm enjoying typing this without pain and numbness in my hands! Yippie! Till next time, take care and be well!!!!

The New Year

You know, I've been here many times in the last week, thinking about
writing about the New Year and every time I get here to write, I go
blank! What can you say about the New Year, or the old year for that
matter? It was another year of learning, living and surviving. I've
learned so much this year. I began on a quest to learn about natural
healing and remedies that will aid me in dealing with my many health
ailments. I've learned that my eating habits really suck and there is
so much I can improve on with just a little change. I can improve my
diabetes, my disk disease, my arthritis, my allergies, and my cancer
fighting/immunity levels in my body. I also learned that drinking
certain types of tea will aid in my problem with nausea from foods and
that it healed something in my hands that I thought was leading to
cervical spinal surgery. I began drinking a combination of Celestial
Seasonings Tension Tamer Tea and Peppermint tea by pouring 12 cups
water into the coffee machine and putting a bag of each in the pot and
brewing the water through and steeping (or however ya spell it) it for
10 mn. This combination has restored the feeling in my hands and taken
the extreme pain away from my hands and made the pain in my lower back
much more tolerable! Just from drinking tea! It began working within 15
minutes of the first cup and has gotten better each day. Then I forgot
to drink tea for a couple of days and my hands began to numb again and
hurt and my back pain became almost unbearable! All that healing in
just 3 cups of tea a day! WOW! That's so amazing to me!

I also
learned that when you begin to change your diet over to healing foods
such as fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs, that it takes about six
weeks before you see any change and that the first six weeks, you may
actually get worse and that's where most give up and say it doesn't
work! What does this teach a person? The evil "P" word... Patience! Oh
yeah, the one I have not yet got down! lol

I also learned to
accept what life throws your way and to find a way to deal with it or
to change it. I've basically been sick most of 2007, having colds, flu,
extreme pain and now pneumonia and lost my job this year. I have been
worried about losing the income from my job and my husband's back going
out and wondering what we would do if that happened. That lead to
illness and an increase in my pain levels (hmmm, connection there?).
So, now I've decided, since I'm not finding a job where I can work at
home, that I have to build up my business. I have the talent and the
intellect to do that but what kept me from doing it before was...the
"F" word...Fear! Fear of what??? Failing! Hallllo! I've failed because
I'm afraid of failing??? Oh my god! Welcome to life as LuAnn! lol! So
this year I am going to be organizing and then creating things to sell
for my business and get my butt out there to sell it! I have many shops
in the area that will sell my art work as well as being able to sell on
Ebay or Google now. Health wise, my sister gave me some green houses
that I can grow my own veggies and herbs to heal my body and make my
own aromatherapy oils and tinctures. So this summer will be a busy one.
My garden is going to have to be built up high so I don't have to bend
over, but I can do that! I'm also going to grow some wild flowers,
converting our lawn to beautiful flowers that bloom all summer long
instead of having to mow the lawn. Yep, that's the other thing....

Going
Green! I'm going to start composting for next year's garden. I've
already began to keep jars, plastic containers, cardboards and papers
and cans to use in my art projects to keep them out of the landfills
and now compost! We have cut down our heat bill by $200 just by filling
in around our windows of this old house (almost killed myself doing
that! lol) and we have cut our electric bill by $49 in one month by
putting all electrical things on power strip bars and turning them off
at night before going to bed. If we have to go potty, we use a
flashlight to get to and from the bathroom. Just by doing that, we
saved $49 in one month! Our electric bill went from $100/month to $51!
We still haven't put our TV's on the power bars, but that is going to
come this month and can't wait to see the savings for that! I'm looking
at figuring out how to build my own solar panels because we can't
afford to buy them and making energy out of copper wire powered by the
sun. Those projects may take me a while, but our goal is to eventually
be free of a gas and electric bill in this house and surviving off our
own grown food (with the exception of meat of course) so that we can
survive with or without an income! All this stuff I've learned this
year!

I've learned about death and cancer this year and watched
my step-father die from small cell lung cancer caused by smoking. He
has inspired my husband and I to quit smoking and we are now applying
for help for a medication that is very expensive and not covered by his
disability, so we can quit smoking. And we are both very excited about
this! Smoking sucks (no punn intended! lol) royally! I stayed at my
mom's while my step-dad was dying and she doesn't smoke or allow it in
her home. I got sick from the smell of smoke on my clothes and had to
buy febreeze to take the smell out because I couldn't sleep because of
it! I hardly smoked at all while down there and my allergies began
clearing up! So that is on the agenda for this year as well. The cancer
was part of what got me moving on learning more about natural healing,
herbs and changing the diet, not for diabetes which is a good
inspiration, but for preventing cancer!

So you see, things in
this life can be viewed as bad and really screwing up your life, but if
you choose, they can be ways to see that you need to make changes and
put some effort into learning how instead of saying "yeah, I should do
that some day." So this year I learned a lot and next year, 2008, I'll
be putting that knowledge to work and making our lives more secure and
healthy! So my resolution for this year is to keep learning and keep
doing so that life will get easier and worries become less. And that
doesn't happen by sitting around and just learning...it takes action!
So this year, will be the year of action!

The other action I'm going to take this year is to begin learning how to begin to nurture my 6th sense skills. I've avoided this for all the years I've known I have a 6th sense. My mother has it, I have it and my daughter has it, so its about time I start learning how to put it to good use! (boy that's like a freakin light bulb going off huh? lol) I can't pick and choose when this sense pops up, but I am able to tell you a conversation my mother and brother had without having been there and what is behind someone's personality that I've just met. I can tell you when something is going to happen and if I ignore it, it happens, if I don't, we avoid the situation but find out what would have happened if I wouldn't have listened to that inner voice. So its learning to acknowledge and believe that inner voice instead of ignoring it and finding out later the inner voice was right. This has been happening since I was 18 months old (my first memory actually), so its time to quit thinking it is just "chance" that it happens and begin to fine tune these skills. So again...a year of learning and a year of action!

Anyway, enough of that!
Happy New Year Everyone!
LuAnn

Thank you all for your wonderful support!  It truly means the world to me!  Have a beautiful holiday season!

I'm sorry I didn't answer all your questions earlier.  My step-dad became very ill and I was helping my mom out since that post. He passed away and the funeral happenings are now over.  I'm doing ok and so is my mom.  We understand that death is birth into a new life.

Anyway, about the ghost that floated us down the stairs...My sister and I never had any fear, that's the interesting thing about it. The ghost didn't speak at all, just held out her hands to us and floated us down the stairs...many times actually.  All I remember about the ghost was that she was a woman with long black hair and wore a white gown with flowing arms.  But here's the funny thing...I think she was protecting us because I had a huge fear of going downstairs to the bathroom by myself!  My sister must have had that too because she would get upset with me that I couldn't go down by myself.  But the ghost floating us was not something we feared, it was what was downstairs that made us scared and when the lady took us downstairs, I never felt fear while I was down there, just when she wasn't with us.

Someone suggested she might have been an alien but I have to say "no" to that because she was see through and flowing, not a solid figure.  I never checked out the history of the house since adulthood...never really thought of it to be honest.  But we live in a different state now, so not sure I'll be getting back there now to check it out.  I don't really remember the address either...we moved there when I was six and only lived there one year.  After we moved into town, we never saw the ghost again.  We only lived in Minnesota (where the house is) for 4 yrs & have been in Wisconsin since.  But that ghost is a very powerful memory for me and now I know it is for my sister as well!

Haven't been online for a while because I was helping my mom out while her husband (my step-dad) was dying of small cell lung cancer.  He passed about two weeks ago and the funeral was a week ago.  He was an awesome person and I am a better person for having known and loved him!  He treated me like one of his own and my husband and he were die-hard sports fans.  My husband says he lost his baseball buddy!  But as sad as we are to have lost him, my husband has already seen him in spirit form... telling him to quit smoking!  He appeared to my hubby while he was having a smoke at work.  How awesome is that!  I love knowing about the paranormal because death is just another form of life to us now!  What a great gift to know Arlie (my step-dad) is still looking out for us and we can still see, feel and hear him!

I decided I need to get a blog going here! lol  So, here's a little story about my sister and I when we were young.  I was about 7 and my sister was 9 when we lived in an old farm house in Minnesota.  The house was about 100 yrs old and that was back in 1967, built around 1867.  We shared a bedroom upstairs and I was too scared to go to the bathroom by myself in the middle of the night, so I'd wake up my sister and we'd go downstairs to the bathroom together.  Well, one night, we were at the top of the stairs, ready to go down, when a floating lady held her hand out to us, took our hands and we floated down the stairs.  This happened nightly for the rest of the time we lived in this house (about a year).

When my sister and I were talking on the phone this last week, she brought that up.  We hadn't talked about that since. It was amazing to me that she had the same memories because quite honestly, I thought I had just dreamt it.  But low and behold, it did actually happen!  I haven't floated since though! lol  Darn! lol