I love watching design shows. Love. Can’t get enough. I really love seeing a room transformed into something that brings the homeowners joy and functions well for them. I’m having the time of my life making our own house a home. It is something that gives me great pleasure (thank you very much, disease, you can’t take that away). It is good medicine to love your surroundings or at least feel at peace in them, if you ask me.
And who doesn’t love a good before and after?
Unfortunately, with these crummy autoimmune diseases spawning all over the place, the before and afters aren’t always so pretty. I gathered a few disease related before and afters of my own to share. Sorry, have to show the toes again. If I am willing to once again throw my nasty toes up on the internet, you know there is love involved. I get more Google search hits for things toe related than anything else.
BEFORE
(Pre-antibiotic protocol)
AFTER
(Five months into the protocol)
BEFORE
AFTER (Five weeks later)
(Large number of people praying for me, acupuncture, chiropractic adjustments, limited activity)
BEFORE
(Pre-disease)
AFTER
(The closest I can get to a sexy heel these days without my feet screaming, “Mercy!”)
BEFORE
(My diet pre-disease consisted of artificial colors, artificial flavors, sugar, dairy, grains)
AFTER
(Post-disease I avoid all of the above as often as possible because it can make you sick!)
BEFORE
(View from my back porch and fog that causes me crazy pain)
AFTER
(Relief…)
What brings me joy amidst having a ridiculous disease.
BEFORE
AFTER
(I still want to paint the ceiling. My neck doesn’t though.) 🙂
And just for fun, because I have no shame now that you’ve seen my ugly feet. 🙂
BEFORE
AFTER
(Someone at the mall did my make-up in this photo and I can not seem to reproduce the same look for the life of me. Darn those toxic, but beautifying products that I chose not to purchase!)
Praying this finds all of you feeling the best you possibly can in the after!
Rheum For God 