Much of this has been blamed on Elvis’ deep-fried, Southern-comfort diet and well-known penchant for opiates. Lots of fatty and highly processed foods mixed with motility-slowing drugs will surely affect a body’s ability to purge, but what if there were other factors as well?

“All the medications he was taking wouldn’t have caused the degree of constipation he had,” claims Dr. Nick, who noted that at the autopsy pathologists found barium in Presley’s stool that had been there for three or four months.

“The nerves have to stimulate the colon to propel the material out,” the Dr. notes. “Either there were no nerves or there was a viral disease that affects the nerves. I’m just using this as an example, but polio, for instance, is a virus that affects the nerves.”

Of course, I have my own theory on the matter. Did you expect anything less?

As much as Dr. Nick is being accused of presenting this theory now as a way to exonerate his role in Elvis’ death as his drug prescriber, I do think he’s spot-on about the nerves of the colon and that they were obviously not functioning in normal peristalsis, the muscular contractions that propel waste matter through the colon and out of the body through the anus.

In a healthy colon, the sensations of peristalsis signal that it is time to get thee to a toilet. In a chronically stopped-up colon, peristalsis slows or ceases completely, and the colon becomes so stretched and distorted that the sensation that you “have to go” is muted or nonexistant.

Many readers of this blog have commented that fiber and water can help clear occasional constipation, and they are correct when you are looking at a normal colon in a healthy person. Adding fiber to a diet can actually  make constipation worse if there is an underlying inflammatory condition that is not being addressed.

In untreated Celiac disease sufferers, for example, the continual and chronic irritation of the lining of the bowels and intestines can cause permanent damage to the nerves and tissues of the gastro-intestinal system, including the sensitive fingerlike villi lining the gut that are responsible for breaking down and absorbing nutrients and assisting peristalsis.

Scientific American magazine reported in the August, 2009, issue that Celiac sufferers and in fact most, if not all, autoimmune disease sufferers, have unusually permeable guts due to constant inflammatory response to environmental substances, i.e., undiagnosed food and chemical sensitivities. Because this inflammation negatively affects the assimilation of nutrients, symptoms can manifest that are as diverse as anemia, arthritis, bone loss, depression, fatigue, infertility, joint pain, seizures, and numbness in the hands and feet. Etcetera, etcetera.

As Celiac patients know, the only  way to heal the bowel and feel better is to eliminate the cause of the inflammation and irritation, in this case gluten in the diet, and allow the tissues to calm down and recover. If identified early enough, the bowel can completely heal and regain normal function. After too many years of continual inflammation, however, the damage may become permanent.

While only 1% of the global population actually suffers from gluten intolerance, the numbers unknowingly afflicted with gluten or other food or chemical additive sensitivities could be exponentially higher. These “Type IV delayed hypersensitivity reactions” spark a histamine/cytokine/chemokine mediator release that can manifest as inflammation localized in the bowels and producing constipation and/or diarreah or as a general system-wide inflammation that can look like anything from migraines to  fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, ADD/ADHD… and on and on.

Perhaps Elvis suffered from undiagnosed food sensitivities that instigated a constant inflammatory response in his colon, effectively closing it to excretions and causing the stool to back-up and expand the colon exponentially in diameter to contain all that rotting fecal matter, and hence lose muscle tone and sensitivity in the villi.

In my experience, once you cross that tolerance threshold for one substance, the thresholds for others drop lower as well, causing a cascade of substances which you can no longer tolerate and so that you become constantly inflamed internally. Returning to a point below these lowered tolerance thresholds takes information, time, and dedication, but it is possible.

What can we learn from these revelations into The King’s toileting life?

First, it’s probably wise to lay off the opiates, especially if you’re already constipated. They’re not going to help.

Second, a deep fried diet laden with processed foods and famous for peanut-butter-banana-and-bacon sandwiches is not conducive to robust health.

And, third, don’t wait until it’s too late to act to save your colon — and your body — from permanent damage like the kind seen in Elvis. Dr. Nick offered Elvis a colonectomy while he was alive in a desperate attempt to find a solution to his chronic problem. Elvis demurred (it would have meant wearing an external colon bag). It’s infinitely more preferable to change your diet than lose your colon, don’t you think?

If you are suffering without finding relief, you might want to consider looking into possible food and/or chemical additive sensitivity issues (not food “allergies” that create IgE antibodies, but “sensitivities” that cause the release of mediators like histamines and cytokines and cause inflammation).

We can’t all be “The King,” but at least we can rule over our own bodies and take control over our own health!

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Salmon is a desirable food to eat for those living with multiple sclerosis because it is full of omega-3 fatty acids to help maintain and repair the nervous system.

Of course, this recipe is delicious for those not living with MS, too! Find the recipe on page 28 of the 2009 Glorious One-Pot Meals cookbook, or below.

Dill Salmon Serves 2
This is a great, light summer meal and is particularly great for filling your diet with omega 3s! Adding a thin coating of olive oil on top of the fish will result in a less-dense fillet. For an even richer flavor, place several pats of butter on the fish.

Olive oil spray
2 scallions, white and green parts, chopped
1/2 to 3/4 pound salmon fillet
1 teaspoon olive oil
Salt and freshly ground white or black pepper
3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
1/2 lemon, thinly sliced
5 to 7 whole dill sprigs
5 or 6 red potatoes, thickly sliced
2 large carrots, cut into long strips
1/2 medium zucchini, cut into sticks
1 celery stalk, sliced
1/2 medium cucumber, cut into sticks

1.    Preheat the oven to 450F.
2.    Spray the inside and lid of a cast iron Dutch oven with olive oil.
3.    Scatter the scallions in the pot. Set the salmon on top of the scallions, skin-side down if not skinned, and drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, followed by the garlic.
4.    Top fillets with the lemon slices and half the dill sprigs. Scatter potatoes around the fish. Add the carrots, zucchini, celery, and cucumber. Tuck more dill sprigs into crevices and lightly season again with salt and white pepper.
5.     Cover and bake for about 43 minutes, or until 3 minutes after the aroma of a fully cooked meal escapes the oven. Serve immediately.

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You might already know that vitamin D is essential for healthy bones and teeth, but did you realize that it plays a role in maintaining a healthy immune system, too?

A connection between Multiple Sclerosis and vitamin D deficiency has been studied for decades. Low blood levels of vitamin D are common among the MS population, and according to recent reports, as many as 80 percent of people with MS don’t get enough of it in their diets.  In fact, current research findings suggest that vitamin D may positively influence the immune systems of patients with MS…

(read the rest of the article on Vitamin D and Multiple Sclerosis here.)

It’s perfect timing for this article as May is the month for many of the annual Walk MS events to raise funds and awareness for multiple sclerosis. This year, the Colorado Chapter of the National MS Society has invited me to host the “Land of Nutrition” at the MS Walks in Denver (May 1), Colorado Springs (May 8), and Boulder (May 15).

As a nutrition expert living with multiple sclerosis, I believe that what you eat plays a role in how you feel, and that your diet affects your health. Changing the course of your health and, at the very least, the severity of your symptoms may be as simple as changing your menu.

Hear me talk more about the National MS Society’s Colorado Walk MS events!

The forecast for the Denver Walk this Saturday (May 1st, 2010) may call for snow (!) so dress warmly and enjoy the coffee and hot chocolate offered around City Park for participants. Take refuge under the Wellness Tent with me, pick up or order an autographed cookbook, and join the discussion on healthy eating!

Hope to see you there!

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The Nurses Health Study

Analyzing data from 13,535 female participants in the Nurses’ Health Study, researchers correlated reports of physical activity at the average age of 60 years with successful survival into the 70s. Successful survival was defined as “no history of ten major chronic diseases, or coronary artery bypass graft surgery and no cognitive impairment physical impairment, or mental health limitations.”

The correlation was considered strong enough to provide “evidence that higher levels of midlife physical activity are associated with exceptional health status among women who survive to older ages and corroborate the potential role of physical activity in improving overall health.”

Incorporate mental activity to your workout, adds neurologist Tim Vollmer, Co-Director of the Rocky Mountain MS Center Clinic, and keep your brain healthy along with your body.

Although repetitive actions like running are great for your cardiovascular system, coordinated arm leg movements like you find in yoga, pilates, dance, tennis, or my favorite, Jazzercise, can help keep all synapses firing.

Of course, you don’t need to wait until you hit midlife to get the benefits from regular physical and mental activity. The research shows that the old motto “Use it, or lose it!” has been proven to be true.

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“Elizabeth’s message of healthy eating and knowledge of nutrition is a perfect complement to the information and resources we strive to provide to those affected by MS and their loved ones,” says Scott Mayeux, Senior Development Manager for the Colorado chapter.

“I’m excited to represent the link between nutrition and health to the MS community at this year’s MS Walk!” agrees Yarnell, nutritional expert and award-winning author of Glorious One-Pot Meals. “I always love the chance to meet people who care about MS and share my enthusiasm for how eating healthily can make every life better.”

Yarnell has lived with MS for over a decade and often dedicates her time to raising funds and awareness for MS causes. Signed cookbooks will be available as door prizes and for purchase.

Join us at the MS Walk in Denver by registering at www.walkmscolorado.org or calling 303-698-7470.

Contact Molly Skyar at 310-374-4477  x19 about opportunities to sponsor the MS Walk’s Land of Nutrition.

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You really need to average 7-8 hours/night of restful sleep for your body to fully recharge and take care of all the business that gets done while you sleep, namely digestion, stress-relief/relaxation, and healing.

Arianna Huffington, editor of the Huffington Post, has made sleep her number one priority this year. Arianna, a round-the-clock worker who prided herself on not needing very much sleep, got a rude awakening recently when she collapsed from exhaustion, fracturing her cheekbone and needing stitches on her face.

She and Glamour editor Cindi Lieve have begun a one-month “sleep challenge” that particularly targets those they say are the most sleep deprived in our country: single working women and moms with young children.

We can’t make our best decisions without enough sleep, they note. We will be better workers and parents if we get more sleep.

I totally agree. I remember realizing exactly why they use sleep deprivation as a Prisoner-of-War torture technique after my son was born. He was never a good sleeper and for the first year I’d be lucky if he went down for more than a 30-minute stretch. He was 4 before he slept through the night, which means  I didn’t get an uninterrupted night of sleep for four years, either.

The hardest times for me were when his little sister came along and the two of them would tag-team my husband and me all day and all night long. My son was sickly and vomiting sll the time (30+ times/week), and my baby girl nursed constantly and wouldn’t let anyone else hold her but me. I call those “the dark years.”

Because I was trying to work during these years, too, my emails often went out in the wee hours. Once my first book came out in 2005, midnight to 2 am became my time to fill orders and prepare shipments. By the end, when my first book went out of print in 2008, I was so tired that I accidently sent one Dutch oven order out by overnight mail — a $90 mistake that reflected on my bottom line.

Of course, the babies would still be up at 5 am, or 6 if I were lucky. They didn’t care that I had worked all night!

I remember being too tired to hold an intelligent conversation. While the babies always were clean and looked cute, a close look at me would have revealed stained clothes on an overweight body, no makeup, dirty hair in a ponytail. I was so tired I just didn’t care. I saw myself as slogging through it.

Funny how we value sleep deprivation in our society. We brag about how little we need, how much we work instead of sleep. In some ways, I felt virtuous for being able to function (albeit at a low level) with so little sleep.

Last December, my husband insisted we try to go to bed together, instead of him going to bed at 10 or 11 pm (he has to leave the house at 6 am for his job) while I worked for a few more hours. He thought it would be good for our marriage.

I was reluctant, at first. When was I supposed to get all the work done that I usually did at night? But he had a point. Now that the kids were sleeping on their own most nights, it was possible for me to get more sleep, too. And all those “dark years” had taken its toll on our relationship, too. For years we had been like ships that passed in the night. We needed to reconnect as more than just caretakers.

It was good to remind myself, too, that a body that is dealing with a chronic illness, as mine is, needs to have all its resources available to stay healthy. It is good advice for MS patients to get enough sleep — advice I often gave but rarely followed myself. Fatigue is a hallmark of MS to begin with, and a drained body must use all its resources just for living, leaving nothing for healing and recharging. Lack of sleep leads to adrenal overload, which can cause a cascade of other health issues.

So, I guess I’m actually one year ahead of Arianna and Cindi, in that I’ve been getting more sleep since December, 2008. Although I may not acheive the goal of 7-8 hours of blissful sleep every single night, I know that I feel better, look better, have lost weight, and am happier now that I’m getting more sleep.

Oh yes, and my marriage… well, let’s just say that getting enough sleep can rev up your sex drive, too! 

Consider taking Ariana and Cindi’s  sleep challenge yourself, and see if it doesn’t do everything from change your perspective to make you a safer driver.

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January 6 brought the one-year anniversary of the release of my cookbook, Glorious One-Pot Meals, from Broadway Books (a Random House imprint). After all has been said and done, it appears that I’ve sold about 10,000 copies this year. Not bad, considering I’m not a “celebrity chef” and don’t have a show on the Food Network… yet!

In 2009, I received 52 mostly favorable reviews on my Amazon book page; gave more than 50 cooking demonstrations, classes, workshops, as well as numerous presentations on publishing and social media on local and national stages; appeared in the press at least 10 times (including Good Housekeeping magazine in India!); and got on television about a dozen times.

In it’s third year now, this blog has grown to receive more than 5,000 unique visitors each month, and I’ve found that I have a beautiful, supportive group of subscribers, too.

I made it to 121 Jazzercise classes in 2009, as well as to around a dozen Michael Jackson dance classes, belly dancing, and pole dancing classes. Along with eating right (and lots of GOPMs!), this all helped me to lose 17 lbs. last year, and go from a size 6 to a size 0 or 2.

Oh yes, and I turned 40, too. My husband of ten years threw a fabulous surprise birthday party for me to celebrate the milestone. (The biggest surprise was that he organized something all by himself!) 

But the numbers don’t tell it all. For me, it has been a year of wonderful emails from readers all over the world who are enjoying the unique infusion method of cooking Glorious One-Pot Meals. GOPMs have been prepared in Iceland, Australia, Canada, Italy, England, and France, that I know of.

Emailers tell me they feel better, have lost weight, eat in more often, eat together more often,and have expanded their food repetoire with new ingredients and flavors. They tell me how excited they are to have found such a quick and easy way to cook.

It’s these comments from readers like you that keep me going and convince me that I’m on the right path to help others eat well and feel better.

Please forgive me if it takes me forever to respond to you directly — I tend to fall behind on emails and they can get loss in the morass of my inbox. Rest assured that I received it and appreciated the effort to connect! I try to be more timely about responding to comments posted here on the blog.

It has been a tough year, too. My first mammogram found a suspicious lump which had to be biopsied. I was attacked by people offended by my patent on a cooking technique or who thought they knew better than I how my method should work.  I unsuccessfully courted three organizations I felt were aligned with my values and mission to invite them to partner with me.

I’ve often felt this last year that my life consisted of racing from place to place, yet still I was always dreadfully behind. Too much to do and not enough time to do it.

Last month, my MS doctor told me that no matter what I do or how well I’m faring now, I still have an 80% chance of ending up in a wheelchair by the time I’m 65. Talk about depressing, even though I know that I’m not the “average” multiple sclerosis patient in my lifestyle and awareness of health and I tell myself that those odds don’t apply to me. Although my latest MRI shows no new signs of inflammation in my brain or spine, it’s hard not to let stats like that put a damper on life.

By far, the most successful thing I’ve done this year has been determining that multiple food sensitivities were the cause behind my son’s chronic constipation, and then finding the right path toward bringing him into a healthy state. I haven’t discussed this very much yet, but I’m ready to start sharing the story with you this year.

Thanks for sticking with me on this journey. I hope I’ve given you things to think about and ways you can make your life and your health better. Most of all, I hope you’ve found something I’ve said to be helpful as you navigate through life.

Now, it’s time to look forward to the promise of all that lies ahead. Let’s go and meet it together. Naturally.

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I told her I thought she needed to nourish, support, and rebuild her body to feel healthy and strong again. She was on the edge of collapse, crying a lot, and generally feeling crappy. I’ve found that sometimes people need to get to the bottom before the wake up and start caring for themselves better. I confess to being there myself at times.

I understand: it’s easy to get depressed when you don’t feel good and haven’t for a long time. Personally, I’ve never found much value in those anti-viral meds, particularly if you don’t start them at the onset of an infection. I wanted to kickstart her off to reclaiming her health naturally, so I gave her the following recommendations:

As an antiviral, prepare and take immediately:
-Garlic tea. Peel and crush several cloves of garlic and place in a mug. Pour in 6-8 oz boiling water and let steep at lest 5 minutes. Squeeze in up to 1/2 fresh lemon juice. Add honey or agave until it tastes pleasing. I like to drink this before bed and let it marinate in my cells overnight. Repeat in the morning, if needed, and as frequently as necessary. I’ve never needed to take it more than 3 times.
To combat the existing viral infection and find some immediate relief from symptoms, I recommended the following protocol to follow several times daily:

-Gargle with warm salt water. Let it bathe and soak sore tonsils. Prepare it as hot as comfortable, but don’t burn yourself.

-Use SinusRinse or a netti pot to rinse your nose with warm salt water at least morning and night, and more if desired. Mix in a little baking soda to make it more comfortable, or just stick with the pre-mixed SinusRinse packets.
For her stuffy nose:

-Homeopathic Sinusin (formerly called Euphorbium) spray as needed to open nasal passages and reduce swelling (this stuff is like magic!). Use after a sinus cavity rinse.
-Homeopathic hepar sulphur. 4 pills under the tongue before bed and upon rising, if needed.
-Run a humidifier at night.

To nourish her body and rebuild after antibiotics, she should take the following daily:

- Probiotics. We like Good Belly non-dairy probiotic juice, but any probiotics from the refrig case should be fine for daily use. Because she has been on antibiotics, she should take this Primadophilus Intensive course to begin with and rebuild her system.

- Super green nutrients. You can find these as a powder supplement, or as “Supergreen” food or drink. It’s basically a combo of spiralina and other green algae and veggies. At our house, we mix some super greens into our Good Belly juice with breakfast every day, especially during this cold and flu season. Our favorite super green liquid is Body Balance, which you must order from an MLM distributor. Odwalla makes a nice Superfood drink, too.
My friend went to the health food store, loaded up, and started taking care of herself that very night. Here is the email she sent me the next morning:

“Just wanted to let you know that i just finished my garlic and lemon tea (and my husband had his), gargling salt water and doing my sinurinse. i can’t believe the difference of today vs. yesterday. thank you so much for all of your advice, it really is working!”

When I spoke to her later that day she emphasized not only that she felt healthier and stronger in less than 24 hours after starting this regimen, but that she felt empowered and optimistic about her health for the first time in months. She continued on to say that her throat, which had pained her for months, already felt better. In fact, she wasn’t sure it was hurting her at all anymore.

“I’ve been waiting around for the antibiotics and the antivirals to work and just getting more and more depressed that I wasn’t getting better. Now I feel like there is something I can do to positively impact my health!”

Excellent! That’s how I started down this path of natural health myself: I wanted to be proactive about my health and know what I could do to help myself have a better life with multiple sclerosis. Being empowered about your health can impact not only how you feel physically, but your mental state, energy level, and positive outlook. Personally, I find it extremely depressing when I feel helpless to effect change, and since my life and body mean the most to me, I choose to take actions that will help me along rather than put all of my faith in an often elusive pharmaceutical “cure.”

We should all take a personal responsibility for our own health, I believe. Power to the people! 

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Oh, how wise she was.

In “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness,” Marcus Buckingham researched and found that the happiest women at some point in their lives simply made a choice to be happy.

He offer four points upon which women either choose the happiest path or not, and he’s devised a quiz for women to help determine the roles in life that make them happiest. (see below)

Think about it: his research showed that it mattered less what it was that made them happy, and more that they had decided to be happy regardless of whether they had that or not.

In other words, happiness is a state of mind rather than a state of matter.

There’s a lot of power in deciding to be happy. After a bout of depression in my early twenties, I decided I’d rather be a happy person no matter how low my life felt at that time. My first step was to stop feeling like a victim in my life. I took Tae Kwon Do and shooting lessons, got out of a dead-end relationship, quit my job and moved.

After I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis just before my thirtieth birthday, I had to search again for the choices that led toward happiness rather than despair. My cookbook is one thing that came out of that time.

I have to say, both times I was much happier afterward and since.

I don’t think that choosing to be happy has to look as drastic as it did for me. In fact, Buckingham sees it more as daily and lifestyle choices of not striving for perfection or that elusive “balance” that doesn’t exists. Happiness, he says, is more about self-acceptance and appreciating the small moments in life.

We choose to be happy… or not. It’s an empowering concept.

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“So, what is this procedure?” I asked the receptionist at the imaging center when I booked the first appointment.

“Oh, it’s nothing!” she assured me. ” I had one during my lunch hour and came back to work in the afternoon!”

I eyed her. She had perhaps 6 inches, 50+ lbs., and two or three or four cup sizes on me. She looked pretty robust. However you measure, it was quite a bit more breast to work with than I have.

“So it’s a needle?” I have a pretty severe needle phobia. I was trying not to let it show by acting all casual and nonchalant and psyching myself up inside to face a needle. “And they, what, suck out a sample?” Needle biopsies, my husband would point out to me later, have become controversial as they may actually cause an encapsulated cancer to spread.

“Oh no,” she assures me. Oh good: no needle. “They’re going to make an incision, insert a vacuum tube and suck the grains out.”

An incision? A tube?

“Um,” My questions were starting already. “How are they going to close the incision afterward and keep out infection? Stitches?”

Nope. Steri Strip Skin Closures. Hypo-allergenic strips of surgical-grade tape that you leave on to keep a wound closed until they roll up and fall off, maybe ten days. Houston, we have a problem: Adhesive bandages, including hypo-allergenic ones. Leave ‘em on me for more than a day and I start to hive. So much for the “hypo-allergenic” claim. Two days will be intolerable, not to mention that the inflammation of the hives will create an environment not conducive to healing the wound.

They call in a surgical tech who tells me that perhaps we can do Steri Strips for the first day and then return the next day to have the strips exchanged for paper tape. Well, yeah, I tolerate paper tape slightly better, but not for longer than a day. They won’t discuss stitches. Now I’m looking at follow-up care.

It’s really nothing, they both assure me. Unless, they accidentally nick a vein and cause a hematoma — a massive bruise, in other words. But that’s very rare, they say earnestly. We’ll give you a compression bandage to wrap around your breasts if this happens. It hardly ever happens.

A possible hematoma? You mean, a “side effect?” Yeah, I’m familiar with “unlikely side effects” from medical procedures. Two weeks flat on my back after a withdrawal of spinal fluid that most people “go right back to work after.” Six weeks of agonizing dry sockets after removal of my wisdom teeth. And more, of course. With side effects like these, you develop a healthy fear of being poked and prodded.

Oh, and one more whammy: “You shouldn’t lift anything for about two weeks.”

I tried to digest this. It became quite clear that this procedure best not be scheduled two days before a cross-country flight to an active family vacation at the shore with seven children under seven years old

The breast surgeon filled in the rest of the details. I’ll be lying on a table with my breast hanging through a cutout, smashed with mammogram paddles. They’ll use radiation to make a couple of images in order to locate the spots on several planes. More radiation from medical tests that I’d rather not be exposed to, all things considered.

Will I be sedated, I asked? I have MS and I’m dangerously sensitive to anesthesia and ibuprofen. No general, she said, just a local anesthetic like lidocaine injected directly into the site. A big, long needle, in other words.

And, they’re going to deposit a titanium chip as a marker so that the follow-up surgeon will know where to go, if necessary. I can choose not to get this piece of metal, but then if the biopsy came back malignant the surgeon would end up taking more tissue during a subsequent lumpectomy than she would have had to if the marker were there.

I called on my resources and I’m going into this well prepared, I think. I’ve got my homeopathic arsenal ready: hypericum to help heal the puncture wound quickly, if I’m in a lot of pain an hour later bellis parennis will help heal the tissue trauma, and arnica in case there’s bleeding or bruising.

Oh yes, and a prescription of valium for my nerves. That one’s not homeopathic, of course, but I will be grateful for it nonetheless!

So many of you have written and left comments that I feel surrounded by good energies. I’m honored and so touched to connect with you through my writing and cooking. Thank you for sharing your strength with me today. I’ll let you know how it goes.

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