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Dandelion Discotheque (d'un lit)
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Eclipse
Moon
Enough,
Enough
Close the doors please 🙏
“Strange times we're living in
World can put fear in ya
Hierarchy parties, they make us feel inferior
Greed runs through the parliament interior
Devils walk among us, they fit the criteria
Eerie theories strike fear in weary minded men...
The current situation.
Why is this whole illness such a nightmare from beyond? It’s like some of us have to stave off demons from every direction whilst already battling for our lives alone.
So, I have a few things that are approaching medical intervention, if I want to stay alive that is...
“…hi Ren… I’ve been taking some time to be distant,
I’ve been taking some time to be still
I’ve been taking some time to be by myself and I've spent half my life ill
But just as sure as the tide start turning
Just as sure as the night has dawn
Just as sure as rain fall soon runs dry when you...
"I have woken up
With heart broken again
No smart poetic answers
To the suffering that rages
In places I do not know
No fancy spiritual philosophy
That shields them
When the bombs fall
Just a tiny voice that whispers
The love of peace
Even in the midst of war."
~...
Fires…::…..
“And if you have ever been abandoned. Be a constant. If you have ever been wrapped up in nights so dark, you could not find your way back home. Be light. If you have ever fallen apart into a thousand, fractured pieces and wondered where on earth everyone has gone. Be present. If...
“Here is a truth you often don’t hear: traumatized women have the potential to become the most powerful people in this world.
The most ignorant members of society call this type of woman “damaged.” But she is the most powerful type of woman there is
What they forget is that survivors have...
Because….music.
Moon river, wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style some day
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way
Two drifters, off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbow's end
Waitin' 'round the bend
My...
Trigger warning. Medical ptsd triggers.
Not a pretty entry.
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I have worked so hard for years to reach today. YEARS. And years and years…. And years.
I need assistance and I know this. I’ve been rejected left and right from medical community. In SO many ways. Despite mostly...
Quick request ME/CFS friends….
Sharing in support of this brave woman that she hopefully gets the help she needs and deserves. How horrifying in 2023 you have to beg for your life publicly in hopes the hospital makes the right choice when you acquire certain illnesses that are blacklisted...
Monday morning music therapy✨🌹
“Told you we ain't dead yet
We been livin'
through your internet
You don't have to believe
everything you think
We've been programmed
wake up,
we miss you
They call you indigo,
we call you Africa
Go get baptized
in the ocean
of the people
Say reboot...
Chronic Infection: Extension-A Closer Look (Helpers for Epstein Barr Virus and Other Co-Infections))
So many herbs are multi beneficial in so many ways....that sometimes its hard to remember why society remains mostly focused on a few heroes finding a pharmaceutical that rarely is as extensively beneficial as the herb. We have millions of heroes around us at all times. They mostly don't require...
And to close off this series that i might as well of named Stephen Buhner's brief overview :lol: we will talk about a BRIEF amount of herbs possible to assist with viral and bacterial infections and cytokines.
I decided to do a brief overview because i have multiple bedridden friends that...
I would like to share a passage in Buhner's book on cytokines today...what they are and how they work.
"Cytokines are small cell signaling molecules released by cells that are damaged, cells of the immune system and the glial cells of the nervous system that are important in intercellular...
A energetic palette cleanser for my feed
💙🦋
Cerulean
Blue moon
In the sea
Waiting
But will you
dance with me
Dancing waves
Encompassing millennia
Beyond these crests
That break
There is a flow
That commands…
Commends
Magnetizes
Divests
Unrests
To create
Coming apart
To fALL...
It’s a brave new world….
A Friday night interruption from the chronic infections series.
I will open with another passage of Stephen Buhner's book on Lyme and co-infections (bartonella, Epstein Barr virus, coxackie, babesia etc) ....
"Lyme and its co-infections, instead of being thought of as they commonly are, should more properly be understood to be a closely cooperating group of...
My results arrived yesterday. Most of what i have is not surprising. Through the years i've had multiple infections such as shingles at 14, EBV (twice), CDC positive lyme and the list goes on...high Strep counts in my urogenital system yet multiple doctors always noted it was fine. :) Totally...
I have decided to do a three? part blog series on the potential role latent and invisible infections play in this realm of people that visit phoenix rising. Too many labels to list here. I had a mobile lab out this week to get a (expensive) test to see what microbes are left in me. No test is...
Sometimes you can’t help but ponder how long things have been broken. This didn’t just come about. We live in such a topsy turvy world where we think we are progressive and quite forward…. Yet so many people don’t have money to eat or afford medical care or house… or even a blouse.
My father...
My bare feet pushed my travel wheelchair along the hallway. Then I turned right and was face to face with our screen door. And I pushed right up next to it. Holding my head up but my neuro/ vision are very iffy. One wrong move of the eyes or head and I can swiftly go into an episode or small...