{"id":9401,"date":"2010-06-17T05:50:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T10:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=9401"},"modified":"2010-06-17T05:50:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T10:50:27","slug":"what-do-i-do-when-i-forget-what-i-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/what-do-i-do-when-i-forget-what-i-know\/","title":{"rendered":"What do I do when I forget what I know?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheesh.\u00a0 I have no one to blame but myself.\u00a0 Imagine that.\u00a0 Six days ago I mowed the yard and a few hours later got a scratchy throat and dry cough.\u00a0 I went to bed and woke up in full blown sinus and chest congestion.\u00a0 Ok, hay fever<\/em> I thought, and I used my neti pot, upped my Vitamin C in case it was a cold and began drinking my Breathe Easy<\/a> tea.\u00a0 I didn’t think much more of it, it’ll pass in a day or two<\/em>.\u00a0 But it didn’t.\u00a0 By day 3, I was coughing a lot with filled sinuses and a giant sinus pressure headache, as well as feeling I had broken ribs from the coughing.\u00a0 I ran out of steam within 4-5 hours of getting up.\u00a0 I’d slept 16 hours a day for the first 3 days.\u00a0 But I was so wrapped up in the final layout of the July Horizons that I didn’t stop to think – now what do I know about this sinus\/coughing thang?\u00a0 On day 5 I asked on Facebook, “Ok, day 5 of a heavily congested chest – help! What REALLY works to clear it?”<\/em> When the first person mentioned Mucinex, my first thought was – “I don’t know if I want to be putting chemicals in my body.<\/em>”\u00a0\u00a0 When I researched to see what was in it and saw the word guaifenesin<\/em>, something clicked in my brain.\u00a0 It occurred to me to search my blog to see if I’d mentioned it before.\u00a0 I was surprised to find I’d written just 4 months ago Guaifenesin – Generic Mucinex – to the Rescue.<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, granted, when I write my blog posts, many are just thoughts floating through my head that I haven’t given much thought time to.\u00a0 I don’t expect to remember those.\u00a0 But I’d like to remember the helpful ones, like that if I began taking the Mucinex 4 days ago I might have cleared it up sooner.\u00a0\u00a0 But I just gave it no real thought time.\u00a0 Since the mucous was thin and clear, I knew it wasn’t a viral or bacterial infection, but there was so much of it.\u00a0 But I was wrapped up in phone calls and typing nonstop and at the end of the day just wanted to crash and not think.<\/p>\n

So this is what I get for not thinking.<\/em> And it doesn’t help that I forget to open the medicine cabinet door to remind myself of all the sinus stuff I keep on hand.\u00a0 It’s mostly that I just don’t make the time to give the matter any thought – which is always what calls forth an answer.\u00a0 And I know better.<\/p>\n

Except for the feeling like I’m drowning part, it hasn’t been too bad.\u00a0 I’d been stressed the week before and so I was ripe to attract the hay fever reaction.\u00a0 If that’s what it was.<\/em> It also occurs to me that I’ve been eating really lightly the past 2 weeks, partially because of no appetite and partially because I’m in this experiment to see how particular foods act in my system<\/a>.\u00a0 So maybe it’s a result of that as well, a detoxing reaction.\u00a0 (Yay! No appetite! I’ve lost 11 pounds in the last 11 days!)<\/p>\n

Whatever it is, I could have WAY lessened the time I had it if I’d just made the time the first day to stop and think “What do I know about this?”<\/p>\n

That also works for any problems and conflicts, too, “what do I know about this?”<\/p>\n

Because if I don’t ask, I may not hear the answer.<\/p>\n

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