Detox

Then given that I am a person who eats and drinks … in the first hospitalization, at discharge (it was June 2019) I asked the doctor if I could drink. Her answer was that drinking was very important and she was starting to give me a very long speech when I interrupted her by saying, “no, look I meant a beer”. General silence and there I felt like in Japanese cartoons, when the droplet of embarrassment falls on the head of the protagonist. Yet another demonstration that I have always Sordamaldestra

Now the speech becomes a little more complicated, because I should dispose of the anesthesia, I should dispose of the medicines (NSAIDs, antibiotics, steroids, immunosuppressants) that I have taken since 2019 and that I continue to take today.

But the NSAIDs I can no longer take them (due to a cerebral thrombosis), the immunosuppressants are suspended for now, I now have antibiotics and painkillers. In short, I am still surrounded by medicines.

For all the exams I did (ct, resonance, pet), a doctor once told me that maybe I could have something … in the series, you try to cure you for one thing, but we make you come else … the joys.

So for now I try to control the medicines I take, but how do you control the pain? that is, on that I gave up … in short, I took everything to avoid pain, and sometimes the relief was only fleeting … Now by now, I am a veteran … I calculate the hours of distances between the intake of the various tablets and I alternate.

So the concept of detox came straight into my life. It’s true everyone says water and lemon in the morning empty stomach … I would need the lemon plantation that you see in an old advertisement for the Dolce & Gabbana perfume.

Let’s say that I try to drink herbal teas as natural as possible, and alternate between the mallow-based one, which has emollient properties, chamomile which has a calming effect but also a little painkiller, then dandelion which has diuretic properties and helps digest … and I could continue with a thousand other herbs … in the countryside there are many and making an infusion is a very simple thing. Then I try to get vitamins directly from fruit or vegetables …

I miss drinking serious stuff, wine, gin… so yes at the detox time, let’s check our health .. but never let it become an obsession that prevents me from enjoying the joys of life.

Before I talked to my friend S. about our evenings, Before I got sick, before the husbands and all the things that happened to us … we exchanged photos of some evenings and she wrote me this:

“We remind the world who we were and that we could return”

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