Week 14: Octber 12th to 18th

I'm here to talk about a bunch of unconnected things... because that's what we do here. And by we I refer to myself and my mind and my ideas.

Have you ever thought about the relation between your feelings, emotions and your gut? Well, I'm one of the people in the world who must deal with the terrible pain of irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS to make it shorter. What I didn't know till last year how much was this related to my emotions, and how sometimes my physical pain was just a response to my stress or sadness. There was when I remembered one of my morphophysiology classes (from when I was studying Bioengineering) that the teacher made us prepare a presentation about the digestive system and I read that the colon was actually the organ with the biggest irrigation from the nervous system. This was better explained by my teacher, but only until the last year, I realized how much truth was that. In the middle of the process, in one of many visits to the doctor for the terrible pain (once I did believe that I was having appendicitis), he explained to me how was related the colon with the stomach, and why I was feeling nauseous. The thing is that the colon needs to do very strong movements and when it does them, it touches the walls of other intestines, like the stomach, and that's when I had the reflex of nausea and wanting to vomit so bad. After the scientific process, a lot of meditation and a good conversation, I realized that talking about a specific person was causing me dizziness, nausea and abdominal pain. When I realized this, it was just like the best new I ever get. I wasn't going to die because of my aches! at least not if I could control them, and knowing the source of the pain (besides beans and spicy food) was a great thing to know. 

In other news, the climate has been so crazy that I'm patiently waiting for my flu, or laryngitis, or something like that. I don't know how do I stay not sick with the daily climate change that I suffer when I go and come back from work. 

Having the kids out of school is like: there is nothing to do, but it's so nice to hear your own thoughts. Yeah, this is the free week in October for schools. It's breathing for us but the truth is that it's never enough. And what am I doing during this time? Spending as much as time I could be in my bed. 

I think I have nothing else to say.