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Healthy Thursday


Before my medication was changed I suffered from the worse brain fog. Not only was getting up in the morning and functioning like a human being damn near difficult to impossible but I also found myself unable to engage in a favorite stress relieving activity, doing Sudoku puzzles. This in itself was distressing. Not only was brain fog severe enough to result in some frantic rushing around in the morning it was also causing me to lose the ability to actually relieve some of that stress later.
Thankfully it doesn't look like that is going to be an issue for the time being. My new medication isn't causing as much fog, hell even my memory is back after being shot to hell for a few months. Yay me!


So for Healthy Thursday I have set the goal to spend at least 20 minutes today relaxing and doing my puzzles. Since I picked up Wednesday night at work I figured I would need a fun relaxing way to spend my Thursday afternoon. What are your plans for Healthy Thursday?


Healthy Thursday is a great way that you can share dietary changes, new exercises, stress reduction techniques or just any general things that you have engaged in or changed in your life that has a positive impact. No matter how small or how simple these are things that we do to improve our selves and lessen the effects of our illnesses. Put a link in the comments to your own blog entry for Healthy Thursday.  If you don't have blog then just comment with what your healthy thing is. 
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