It’s midnight and I just came in from outside, where I sat watching that beautiful full moon drift across the sky.  It’s almost directly overhead right now.  I love following the cycles of the moon, it reminds me everything is a cycle and there is order to the Universe.  Although I’ve had a cold the past few days, I feel good. It’s almost like it’s happening to someone else and I get to watch it.  The generic Benadryl (diphenhydramine) and Mucinex (guaifenesin) totally take the sniffles and cough away and catching up on sleep is awesome.  In June 2010 I wrote What I do when I forget what I know that I was five days into a giant head cold before I remembered what to take for it.  I lucked out this time.  I remembered and looked for my blog post about it and sure enough, same symptoms.  I caught it on the first day, and upped my vitamin C and D3.  I know one reason that colds don’t knock me down anymore is that my eating habits have changed.  Bread was my final frontier, the final starchy, processed food I stopped eating daily.  Now I have the occasional bread, pasta, rice crackers or canned soup maybe 2-3 times a month.  Otherwise nothing from a box or package. Mostly I eat vegetables, potatoes, chicken, fish or turkey.  I am convinced that the processed foods clog up the digestive system so it cannot do an efficient job of taking nutrients in from what I eat.  So when I eat lighter, if a head cold comes up, it has a cleaner system to move through so will be over with much quicker.  So far, so good.

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