Healthy Worms
I feel like I had a fever all day today but it did stop me for watching the Super Bowl with my wife and a non-sports fan friend who still sleeping in a chair in our living room. Not feeling so good took some of the fun out of the game but did not stop me from eating too much of my wife’s pork curry and rice dinner.
At our faith sharing gathering next week the person leading our reflection is a person who visits the sick and dying. He will ask us to reflect on the question: “Did you learn anything when you were ill?” For us who have visited many sick people and have experience short and long term illnesses this is a good question.
I remember once when I started a new job teaching and I got very sick to my stomach and nauseated. Also I had at times what some called “panic attacks.” I kept on teaching but taking time off to go to specialist doctor after doctor and took test after test. I could barely eat and thus lost weight. Comfort foods like cheese and custard did not seem to bother me much but most food made me sick and nauseous. At the end of the spring semester I was asked if I was coming back. At first I said yes but after some thought said no. I needed to get well.
After a summer of getting on to new medicine and getting off of old medicine I felt better. I went to see my primary care doctor for a yearly health check. He was amazed at how much weight I had lost. He asked me how I had lost so much weight. Instead of saying how I could not eat without getting nausea I told him I was on the cream city diet. He asked me what the cream city diet was and I told him that it was when you restricted yourself to cheese, custard and cream, a local name for beer. He thought this was funny but it was true.
After I got well I gained the weight back and even added a little more.
Once again I need to move this diary back to the worm, gardening and nature side, the left side. Maybe I could start tomorrow when I see my spiritual director. He asked me if I wanted some worms. He has a friend, like me who uses worms to make castings for growing and his friend was leaving the country for four years. When I was feeling sick it was hard to appreciate anything. Now that I am back to ‘near normal’ I said yes and tomorrow I will get some needed spiritual direction and some worms.
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