Most Used Appliances in my Kitchen

Two of the most used appliances in my kitchen are my juicer and blender.  They get used everyday to make a healthy and sustaining drink.

I really can't imagine being without them now, although it is still a faff to wash them up...but I have a routine now and I wash up before I drink my smoothie, and then I can sit and relax and drink it, knowing that I don't have the washing up to do afterwards.

I didn't use them daily over the Christmas period so it is good to be back into the daily juicing.

Today's juice consists of:

Three apples,

Three small carrots

Chunk of cucumber

Chunk of courgette

About a third of a pineapple,

Handful of Spinach

Stalk of a broccoli

I juice all these and then put them in the blender with:

Half an advocado

Two manky bananas

Blend!

Result:  A very tasty filling drink.

I've been working on a list of goals/challenges to do this year, but it is slow process as I think...

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Health Update:  The next is for my benefit really, a diary of sorts of how I am getting on with the pain management.

I've been struggling with bad headaches/migraines for the last few weeks, and difficulty with focussing on any task on hand as a result of the new medication which seems to be plaguing me with side effects that don't want to wear off.  The headaches started when I started the medication on 25th November and have got progressively worse since increasing the dosage on 8th December.  The side effects include clenching of the jaw, tiredness, but not being able to sleep very well at night, no motivation, as well as my vision being blurry at times.  Is it helping the pain?  Difficult to say as I'm not really wanting to do much, sleeping a lot of the time, doing some reading and a little knitting.  My arm still hurts, but not as bad as sometimes, but then as I said I'm not really doing anything.  So time will tell.  I really want to come of the Cymbalta/Duloxetine, but suppose I ought to give it a bit longer yet.  I will speak to my consultant  at the Pain Management Clinic on Friday when I go for my Lidocaine Infusion to see what he says.