The Cure

So I mentioned in a previous post that I was very ill at one point this month and I nursed myself back to health.  Well I did!  No medication needed.

I caught shingles last October during a my very stressful ordeal of a divorce and I honestly didn't know what it was until afterwards.  But I didn't go to the doctors, not to the hospital.  I didn't take any medication neither.  I simply had faith that I was going to be alright.  I cleared up my system by eating clean and listening to Quranic Recitations throughout the night.  I truly believe that the words of Allah Subhana wa Ta'Ala could heal me.  And I still use that concept till this very day.

With the notion that Allah Heals All, with my strong faith and belief, I've done the same thing once again.  I got an allergic reaction of some sort.  I'm not quit sure what really went down but I think I got it from tomatoes.  Now before you go cross tomatoes off your grocery list, let me explain what happened.  So I had tomatoes that were going bad in the fridge (no doubt preparing for this fridged current weather) that I wanted to salvage because I had no other foods in my house but boring pasta.  I wanted to make a fresh pasta sauce.  So I cut off the bad parts, rinsed the rest under the water in order to wash the remaining spores and proceeded to make my pasta sauce (which was delicious by the way).  I thought nothing of it, no reaction had begun so I thought I was in the clear.  Well not until I woke up the very next day and couldn't talk with a very nasally voice.  Pretty much coughing up a lung.  The itchiness was unbearable!  Clearly I had to google my itchy throat symptoms.  No, I don't have cancer.  I was in nursing so I know not to be overly dramatic about ailments.  It stated that it was an allergic reaction to mold.  This made me think immediately about the tomatoes.

Yes, I should of gone to the doctor's office for an antibiotic but I was honestly lazy about it.  I didn't treat it like I was about to die.  I read that I should have lemon tea, lots of sugars.... you know the basics vitamin C and stay hydrated kinda stuff.  And so I did.  But I was slowly getting sicker and sicker.  So I continued to make my lemon tea, which did help the itchiness momentarily but it would come back.  It was suggested to brush my teeth, tongue and roof of my mouth, which also helped momentarily.  I resulted to salt water rinse which was most effective!  That was for the itchy throat.  The rest was basic, stay hydrated, sugar lemon tea and BLACK SEED????

Yes, I have added Prophetic Medicine in the mix: Black seeds.  It is said that it is the cure for everything except death.  And another great and highly recommended natural medicine: honey.  Being that Islam is a lifestyle for me as well as eating a plant-based diet (not vegan diet... yes there's a difference), I'm trying to incorporate holistic methods in my life.  It's healthier.  They don't make medication the same way they use to.  Before was actually to prevent sickness more now it's a money making business for pharmaceutical experiments.

I made at one point a ginger, cinnamon, clove, lemon and honey tea.  It's not the best tasting, but it helped soothe my dry throat and congestion.  It is said that fever is the touch of Shaytan, so I used sleep and Quranic recitations to get over that.

My husband, the miskeen, felt very helpless all the way out in KSA.  He told me to go to the hospital to get antibiotics.  But I know very well that in KSA, the slightest of ache people run to the hospital.  I wasn't about to go through a minimum of 14 hour waiting game at the hospital when there are people with worse cases of sickness and emergencies than me.  I wasn't about to go to the doctor's office either because it's too far and let's face it, it is way to cold outside and I'm not about to take a 1 hour trek by bus to get to a doctor's office.  So I opted to stay home an cure myself since I am already a health-care professional.  I did however explain to my worried husband that in the case that I actually do go to the hospital, that he should panic.  Because it will take a lot for me to get there.

Now that I'm all better, I've created a black seed & honey concoction of my own and I have a spoonful everyday to keep the doctors forever away.  Alhamdulillah ala kuli hal!

Take Care & InshaAllah Khair

Duni

So You Don't Work? What Happened?

Yup, I don't work! I'm done with that life.  I've moved on to better things and concentrating on my health first and foremost.

I worked in an Out-bound call centre.  Ya, not the greatest place but hey they hired me, a little niqabi, heck they would hire anyone off the streets too if they could.  Yes, my workplace was and still is that desperate.  I worked there for over a year and I was the last of my class to actually stay that long.  Everyone else is off to better things in life and I was just sitting there slowly torturing myself, praying to get a break.

Well, the corruption started and I wasn't having it.  The management was trying to change all the rules.  They actually put conditions on our incentives and bonuses that MY CLASS had to fight for to receive.

Ya, could you believe they even tried to get me to pay for "jean day" 10 dollars? I was like do you see me ever wearing jeans (I'm a niqabi dressed in an abaya).  When that didn't work they tried to get me to pay up for a "Christmas Diner".  I was like, I'm a muslim and I don't celebrate Christmas, like c'mon.  So they pushed again to say it's for a staff diner.  I was like you already said it's a Christmas diner and my answer is no. BAM!  They weren't happy.  But get this now, when they finally had the  "staff diner", we got a lousy PizzaPizza lunch with NO DRINK to go along with it.  The management was claiming to have a budget cut.  I was like, I'm sure Food Basic is selling a case of 24 assorted pops for like $5.99.  There's about 50 people on the floor, are you tell me that management couldn't afford a decent staff diner with 500 dollars???  Give me a break!

Anyways, I didn't get into it.  The workplace environment alone told you how that company ran things: Very cheap and unclean.  Sorry except for management offices, boardrooms and washrooms.  We got bed bugs during the summer and it took them 3 weeks before they actually did something about it.  They NEVER and when I say never I mean NEVER vacuum the carpet floors.  Even HR was in on the corruption.  Like he didn't do anything to protect the staff's Rights.  Alhamdulillah, they at least clean the washrooms... but do you know why? Because management has to use them too.  So briefly, they couldn't care less about the actual staff.  If you miss a day, they don't call you and ask where are you.  Instead they will go up to your colleagues and ask about you.  Talk about professionalism and integrity.

There was a manager there that would dress in the most skankiest of clothing EVER.  And would try to threaten sending staff home if they dressed "inappropriately".  They hired two dummies as team leads that can't work or do their jobs even if their life depended on it.  I actually had to coach one of them on her basic human rights as a Canadian citizen.  Because here in Canada, things are run differently than India.  Can you believe she tried to treat me like garbage afterwards like abuse of authority against me? LOL I put her in her place immediately with a formal complaint to HR.  Damn right!  Here in Canada, a janitor gets the same respect and a CEO.  Now take it in!

The Director of Operations told every one that they were replaceable.  Oh I will never forget: "My name is Michelle and I'm the director of operations here..." with her finger in the air and rat's nest weave of hair, and in less than professional jeans and sweater get up.  Please! Half the team quite that day hahahahahahahaha.  Management also tried this once extremely scary point system thing... Like if you were late from break or to work you would be docked a certain amount of points.  Well, it came to a point where, I really didn't care if they fired me.  So I abused them just as they abused me.  I was one of the best sales associate & Customer Reps. they had, so they couldn't get rid of me.  It's not like they had many French agents on hand that spoke proper French and proper English.  Because I didn't have the corporate looks I was never acknowledged for my efforts nor promoted.

But honestly, they were extremely happy and I was, when I left, because they violated so many labour laws, they couldn't touch me.  They cowards would have to deal with a shit storm had they actually fired me LOL.  I'm on to better things now Alhamdulillah.  Always keep in mind, Allah Subhana wa Ta'Ala is Al-Rizaaq, The Provider.


Take Care and InshaAllah Khair

Duni

Lifestyle Changes

So there's been a little bit of a drastic change in my life - I quite my job (... Well they were out to get me, besides I really hated that place), I changed my poor eating habits once and for all, and I started exercising.

I know I've been saying I will change and adopt better eating habits but lets face it, I was in a funk that I couldn't quite get out.  It's been a month since I quit my job.  I told my hubby that they fired me because I desperately didn't want/couldn't work for that horrid place anymore.  How could I explain high anxiety, high stress and depression to my hubby?  Let's just say I wasn't in the best of healthy conditions to work at that place anymore.  Now that doesn't mean I won't work... just not there.   My focus is elsewhere for now. I took me about a good 3 weeks of calming my body and mind.  To actually relax.  I'm one of those self-diagnosed kinda of people so I also self-medicate based on informed decision which are ONLY based on holistic remedies.  Which leads me to explaining last weeks crazy head cold that I got.

Every year, I get this freak sickness out of no where (because I'm generally an extremely healthy person), where I refuse any medical help unless I feel like I'm dying.  Well Alhamdulillah I wasn't dying nor feeling like I was! I had an itchy dry throat, congestion, headaches, ugly cough, runny & stuffy nose and a sore stomach.  Somewhere in there I believe to have had a fever too.  Well I'm better now ad that's all that counts.  Throughout that whole ordeal I was extremely happy that I didn't have to go to work and I could nurse myself back to health.  Alhamdulillah for resilience.  And of course I would of loved to have someone to make me soup... but I made myself oatmeal.

I still have phlegm in my throat but I'm sure that will leave in time.  I did however start back on my health kick with more vigour.  I've been having my 3 square meals a day and I've started exercising.  Isn't that exciting!?  Well I'm feeling more determined.  I just need to get a better sleeping pattern and not nap during the day.  Any pointers for avoid sheer boredom in this freezing cold weather? Oh ya that's another thing... I don't like going outside... it's -26C.  Like give me a break!

I'm really trying hard this time to actually stick to lifestyle change and adopt more holistic habits according to the Sunnah.

And what would a lifestyle change be without taking drastic measures to change.  I dyed my hair a different color!  I need change and I found it!  I know this post is talking about a lot of things and not really giving great details it's because I want to explain in future post too.  And if you have any questions feel free to comment down below.

Stay tuned!

Take Care & InshaAllah Khair

Duni

It Hurts So Good!

Yesterday was my first massage therapy experience.  All I can say is wow!  Since I'm on this new holistic journey I thought to myself why not try some reflexology.  No medication needed.  My friend took me out to enjoy this one of kind experience. It may not all that remarkable to some yet to me, I didn't realize how much tension I was holding on to within my body.

The therapist started on my feet with the reflexology, mercilessly I might add! But I knew it corresponded with my organs so I did my best not to wince.  This was a success for my left foot... not so much for my right foot.  I visible showed my pain by the curved look of my foot, my huffing and puffing trying to not scream.  I even had to pull my foot back twice.  It was awfully painful!  Do I regret it? NOPE! Would I do it again?  You can bet on it!  Ideally I would love to go once a week until my feet don't feel that aching pain.  Afterwards, my feet sighed in relief when the therapist ceased the medical tortured.  LOL.  My feet felt like they were floating on clouds.

On to the back massage now.  I had asked for a deep tissue massage.  I did not know what to do when I came to undressing...  Am I supposed to remove everything or just my shirt?  Well I certainly wasn't about to strip and bare all.  I simply removed my shirt lol and Alhamdulillah that was sufficient!  I can't fully explain the entire experience.  There was a lot of kneading done...  Like taking new found pottery clay from the ground and then kneading the crap out of it to make it more malleable, then use it to make a beautiful clay pot.  Let's just say I'm clearly a work in progress.

Immediately after the massage, I felt taller.  Yes, that's a strange way to feel I guess.  The tension I felt in my everyday life was some how uplifted off my shoulders.  I definitely need to go back!

24 hours later, now that I've slept.  Well let's start with trying to sleep. my body was so relaxed that my comfy bed felt uncomfortable.  I didn't know if I needed pillows or not.  Nevertheless, I did in fact fall asleep do to complete exhaustion.  I actually woke up sore... Now, I'm not sure if I'm supposed to feel that way but I do.  I feel like I did exercise lol.  I will say this however, my digestive system got kicked in the face.  And it's working immediately better.  My feet were sore too, I needed my slippers on all day.

In all I would definitely go back and I highly recommend it to everyone.  I know I personally need to do regular exercise and to eat right.



Take Care & InshaAllah Khair

Duni