How Many Chickens?

Today it feels like spring, almost 60 out there! I have really felt the cold this year, as have dropped a few sizes....I always think of it as how many chickens I am not carrying around, assuming each chicken weighs about 3 lbs.. I won't say how many I left by the wayside, as that is just too personal, but it has been many! It all started out with severe pinching in my right side, along with some back pains and occasional indigestion. Every now and then it would happen, and I thought it was just part of getting older. Then last summer I had a really severe attack and almost ended up in an ambulance....but came out of it just before they carried me off, stuffed me in and drove off to the scream of sirens and many hundreds of bucks trailing along behind into infinity. I pride myself on having worked it out with my body, to get really scared before the pain let up to save my pocketbook that shocker and yet bring about the necessary changes. Funny we be that way, creating crisis to bring about change. Tiz the Human way, right?

The Chinese term for crisis is "danger-opportunity."

With the help of a family member who had had a gal bladder removed a year before and a Doctor family member's helpful concern, and of course the trusty always-there-for-us internet, I was on my way to recovery and a much thinner self. I changed my diet drastically. It was called the gal bladder attack diet, basically no fat, cucumbers, green beans, and celery, lots of beets, aloe Vera juice, apple cider vinegar and apple juice and lots of fruit and no fat whole grain breads. Most of the symptoms went away and I was dropping weight like a snowman melts in the sun. I would carefully add a few natural healthy goodies to my diet as directed, then in the fall I was tired of the reoccurring minor back aches, so went on line and found gal bladder cleanse testimonials. Very exciting!
I did two organic olive oil/lemon juice with Epsom salts chaser cleanses, about three weeks apart and dropped thousands of stones. The body acts so much more efficiently when it can produce bile as it was meant to. Pretty amazing when gal bladder surgery is the third most common surgery in the US and costs upwards from 12,000.00. My ingredients had cost under 20.00. And....I could go on and on about the American Medical Profession and the Drug Companies but I want to keep this post relatively light after all of that Israeli stuff of my earlier posts. So, I took a lot of clothes to the Salvation Army and bought some new clothes...mostly at thrift stores, my favorite. I found a pair of 50s never worn ankle high dark purple/brown leather boots that fit me perfectly and are my dear friends these days, and plaid flannel lined jeans! Ohhh, are they nice! I have been living in them since Christmas time when I bought a pair for everyone. I bought them long so they have a big 3 inch turned up flannel cuff, very punky. Anyway...it's been fun and I am so looking forward to Spring without all of those chickens around and more cute clothes. Yay!