The Body Knows (Touching the Moon), by Mary Stebbins Taitt, from a prompt on Poetry Thursday. I did a poem and a prior piece for this prompt but them wanted to play with it more. This is another of a series of variants I made, each one somewhat different than the rest. 
Going to my insomnia doctor today and made him this extended version of an earlier picture.
Q: What is the difference between an “allergy” and sensitivity? Do your tests test for both?
Q: What causes allergies? Is there any way to avoid developing or reverse them?
I have asthma, hay fever, insomnia and fibromyalgia, all of which seem to be moderately to severely affected by certain foods. I also get skin rashes from medications, from some skin products, from poison ivy and sometimes for unknown reasons. Some foods (coffee, chocolate) also negatively affect mood and personality.
I first started having joint problems and hay fever at age 16 and asthma in my late 20s.
I am sure there are others because I often get sick and have no idea why
After a week of fairly bad insomnia, but not so bad I was up out of bed--at least I was lying there relaxed, I had a worse yet night where I was actually up out of bed for several hours becase I was too restless to lie there.
I have been too busy to blog the continuing saga of my struggles with insomnia and fibromyalgia.
I gave up taking the Ambien. It seemed to be making the fibromylagia worse. I continued taking the Rozerem. In combination with careful eating, it seemed to be making the sleeping and fibromylagia somewhat better.
Last night I made two separate stir-fries, one for Keith and one for me. Keith likes pea pods, but I'm afraid to eat legumes, so I made him one with and me one without, but then I stupidly put bean sprouts in mine. What was I thinking? Hello--legumes!!!
So last night I slept less well, much wakefulness, and woke with worse fibro. I'm blaming the bean sprouts, but of course, it could have been something else. We shall, as Keith says, "foon sind out" as I will be going to the allergist in a week and dropping lots of money--hundreds and hundreds of dollars--because it isn't covered by my health insurance. You can take all the pills you want to cover up a problem, but you can't find out what's causing it.
The artwork is supoosed to be a representation of insomnia, but it's too pretty. Oh well, I like it anyway. I may fiddle with it more. What is it really? (I mean what was it before I messed with it?) Click here if you're curious.
Half-naked, skinny and available. Sexy. (Our heads and brains aren't very important!) These are store-window shots next door to the Lobster Pot from our store tour yesterday. It's near where I live, I could walk there.
