I studied the professional homeopathy course by watching the prerecorded lecture. In today’s lecture, the teacher shared some of her homeopathy counseling sessions. One session was dealt with a young boy who suffered from the severe sickness. She mentioned about death. I agree with her opinion that she is against of letting old people by using the medical devices just to extend the life long. These people don’t desire living like that because they cannot walk or eat, even talk. All they can do is just lay down on a hospital bed by extending the life through the oxygen tank and a bunch of IVs and medications. The teacher said she does not want to live like that, and I agree with her. It does not matter how many years we live. Rather, it matters how we live our lives.

I made homemade miso no April 23^rd. I left it in the food cabinet. This morning, I took it out and checked it. I was happy to see it has been in fermenting process nicely. It will be ready to eat after November. I am looking forward to it.  

I woke up with the gentle rain sound. It is one of the rare mornings in our area that we start our day from rain. The rain continued all day with the harsh thunderstorm and lightnings. In the evening, the rain stopped for the time being so that my family and I could go walk for the evening walk. The temperature dropped to low and I needed to change my clothes to a long sleeve shirt and pants. I read the news that the northern part of Arizona had the extreme flood that some parts of the road was completely closed for all day.

For the past couple of days, I could enjoy the daily life without any pain in my body. Before I had the nerve pain, I never thought of this kind of appreciation to my body. But once I experienced the nerve pain, it affects my daily life. The nerve pain ruins my life. I cannot think straight. The pain prevents me from every action such as walking, sleeping, the daily chores. This nerve pain at least gave me a great lesson. I should not take it for granted to live life without pain. I should always appreciate my body whenever I can do whatever I want without suffering from pain. Thank you to my body and thank you to my family spirits for your constant support. And, of course, I appreciate my family for their unconditional love and support while I had the nerve pain.

Continued from the yesterday’s work, I kept on practicing the speaking part of the 10-minutes presentation. I noticed that we need the constant practice in order to smoothly make a presentation speech.  

I was asked to create a 10-minutes presentation draft. It took almost all day for me to create the draft. Once it was done, I practiced to speak up many times. I think the draft was created nicely. I am satisfied with the result.

Now that I am almost free from sciatic pain, I went to our backyard garden to check the plants. I could harvest more large butter squashes, okras, kale leaves, salad leaves, and tomatoes. I noticed the squash plants are shrinking down and other plants such as okra and kabocha started getting healthily growing. I hope we will harvest more kabocha.

Thank God, I could sleep throughout night without waking up, and the great thing was I slept in bed not in a recliner. Sleeping in a recliner helped me to sleep through, but it came with uncomfortable back pain from the metal pipes attaching on my back. I am glad to be back to normal life to sleep in bed. Without the chiropractic treatments, I would have been suffering from the severe pain.

The chiropractor recommended me during the treatment session to sleep in a recliner so that the body weight won’t bother my right pelvis inflammation. So, I followed his advice and slept on a recliner.

The result was amazing. I didn’t wake up at all throughout the night. It was the very first night without any nerve pain after suffered from the sciatic pain in the middle of the night for 6 nights straight. I never thought of sleeping in a recliner. It is a great alternative option rather than suffering from pain in the night.

By the evening, the sciatica pain in the right side has almost gone. Instead, the left big toe started aching. But I don’t worry about it too much. I know I have been moving around too much recently. I should rest the foot without walking a lot or doing the dance exercise.  

Yesterday even though I had a chiropractic treatment, the pain was still there. I could not sleep until 5 a.m., which was awful. After just a 2-hour sleep, I asked my husband to come with me to the chiropractor’s office. Their office hours start from 8 am and we arrived there before 8 a.m. when we entered the office, the waiting room was already full of patients and I could hear the conversation between the chiropractor and a patient in the treatment room. Since it was a Friday morning and they close on 1:30 p.m. on Fridays, many of them feel the same way that they don’t want to suffer from pain during weekend when their office is closed.

When it came to my turn, I mentioned the chiropractor that the pain was still there and I could not sleep, he was not surprised. He said it usually takes one week for a sciatica pain goes away after a chiropractic treatment. When I was about to stand up from the chair to leave, he said he would fix my body again. This time he focused on my left side. It hurt when he pulled my left toes that were injured on this past July, but I intuitively my left toes needed to be fixed.

In the afternoon, the pain on my right side started calming down.