LPN Linda’s Life Lessons

Today was therapy and an appointment at the Breast Care Center for a little problem I’ve had over the past six months or so. Both were exhausting, triggering, and embarrassing, but I learned some interesting life lessons……..

*If you have chronic, unexplained pain in your body a unique way to understand it is to let that part do the talking. If that particular part of your body could talk what would it say? What message does it have for you?

* Try ice. Cool down. Put it on you or in your drink and get grounded and aware.

* Soothe yourself. Moisturize (physically or emotionally) daily to avoid dry, irritated areas. (For me this referred to using aloe and vitamin E to help the healing process of a body part.)

* Rotate different strategies. Don’t let your body or psyche become numb to the repeated use of one technique.

*Keep track of how it feels and affects you throughout the day – good or bad or indifferent.

* Use what you have.

* Play.

These were meant as physical solutions to a breast problem I have, but as I went over what I wrote during the appointment I felt they could be applied in other areas. I hope you can find some use for them.