11.30.05
10:30 a.m.
It is hard to find things to write about while being the care taker for several people. It's also hard to find the time. Master has been using the computer more, and this is my excuse for not posting anything.
I'm not adjusting that well to the cold. And to make it all more complicated, I came down with a whopping case of bronchitiis. I got all the homeopathic medicinal items to help get back to health. Today the cough is better but I've got a sore throat. I'm taking echinacia, drinking pau d' arco tea, taking magnesium for anti-spasmodic medicine in the bronchial area (this really really works!). Taking astragalus for the mucus stuff. And of course, mega doses of vitamin c. I'm juicing carrots and drinking 16 oz of carrot juice a day to get the requisite vitamin A.
Why am I doing all of this? I can't take cough syrup, it has corn syrup in it. Most throat lozenges have some version of dextrose or sucrose, also made of corn. Most modern medicine doesn't work on me, having abused them when I was younger. So I went on line to look up combinations of herbal medicines for healing from bronchitis.
I also don't want to be sick, and I don't want this to last as long as Master's cough lasted between September and October. And the primary rule for this slave is to take care of the property. So I do that by finding the medicines that will help me heal.
Master is going stir crazy. She's getting her energy back and wants to do things, and can't. We go see the doctor tomorrow, and will get a progress report on how everything is healing.
I've been very homesick for all my friends and family back home. Even though I am here with Master, the geography is what I am pining about. No mountains, no cactus. And they have snow here.
When it snowed the other day, I was looking out the window feeling very perplexed. White flurries in the sky and white on the ground. Clouds low in the sky producing the snow. No sun breaking through to shine on my face. Mamasita said how beautiful it was. I'm thinking, "I don't know how to drive in the snow."
But a person can adjust to foreign environments, they do it all the time. Maybe I can adjust to this. As long as Master is here, I am here, and that is Home.
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