A New Appliance on the work surface

The sun is shining today, although the clouds do keep trying to take over and we've had the odd patch of drizzle.

Now although I'm going through a 'declutter' process, I've added another appliance to my work surface.

That's right a juicer - wow, I can certainly make some amazing concoctions with it.

While in NZ I read an article in a health magazine about a lady who suffered chronic pain and no manner of specialists had been able to help her. Sound familiar? In the end, running out of options, she tried a total raw food diet, and it helped! Well I kept what I read in the back of my mind but didn't do anything about it until last weekend when desperate measures were called for. This Raw Food/Juice diet is certainly worth a try I thought. Hence the juicer.

I started last Monday and this was my evening meal, plus enough for lunch the next day.

For breakfast I pop into the juicer, an apple, broccoli stalks (from our garden), some greens (again from our garden), a thick slice of cucumber, a similar size slice of courgette, a chunk of raw beetroot, some carrots, a slice of lemon and another apple. Delicious! Who would have thought?

How do I feel so far? Well no difference has been noticed so far...but I guess it is still early days yet. I've tried giving the pulp that comes out of the juicer to the guinea pigs to see if they will eat it, as I hate waste! Not sure they were especially impressed.

Thursday was an especially bad day for me, pain wise and back to the doctor I went. I told him that the hospital wouldn't even put me on a waiting list yet and I needed to do something. We are therefore trying a complete change of medication, which means I have to come off the current two medications I am on, one of which I've been on for two years and the other which was only started a month ago. I've had to wean myself off the tablets over a period of three days, then go 'cold turkey' for three days, and then start the new medication. Here's hoping. I've also been trying Bowen Therapy and will be having my fourth treatment on Monday. Surely something has got to start helping?

Off to get another load of fruit and vegetables soon, for both me and the guinea pigs...I think the family think I've turned into one. ;-)

Have a lovely weekend everyone!