Tag: Acrostic Poetry

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Pain the Word that Best Describes this November

Posted on by katherinebrianneparilli

Pain, its not my favorite word, but sadly it was the perfect word to describe last month. After weeks of pushing as hard as I could to prepare for the holiday rush, dreaming of what might be, nothing. Absolutely nothing. Not one sale the entire month.

My heart sank into my shoes. After all that effort, pushing myself to the point where I was to exhausted to move which intensified my chronic nausea and the severity of my now daily migraines, I had actually taken a step backward, because at least the previous November, with only a handful of activity packs, I had made 1 sale. And now, with more than a dozen POD puzzles, sweatshirts, t-shirts, and mugs I had made nothing.It was hard to tell what was more painful, the severe ache in my head or the searing pain in my heart.

While I had done my best to remain cautious, repeatedly reminding myself that even though I had slightly more than doubled my listings from the previous year, my selection of listings was still to low to expect hundreds of dollars worth of sales. Yet even though I knew there was no real hope of making a couple of 100 sales, considering that a few months earlier in the middle of quarter 3 I had made 8 sales, with the over 2 dozen listings I had added since then combined with the holiday rush, surely I should be able to double that number. Or so I thought.I wish I could say that the month of December proved to be kinder, but so far I have gotten a grand total of 1 sale where last year I at least had 3.

So enjoy this short acrostic poem about pain. And hopefully, if you were to chose a poem describing your last few weeks, words like cheer, joy, and success would be the words that best fit your experience.

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Happy Thanksgiving

Posted on by katherinebrianneparilli

Happy thanksgiving everyone. Even though my energy is low, I thought that I would take a moment to share a shore a poem of thanks and to wish everyone a happy day of giving thanks for all that God has done for us. May you and your family enjoy a good meal and a full heart as you count your blessing and find joy in the fullness of your basket of blessings.

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Anemia: One Step Closer to an Infusion

Posted on by katherinebrianneparilli

Hurray, after more than a month since I got my lab results back showing that my iron saturation had dropped to a 4 (the low end of normal is 15), I finally have an appointment with the hematologist. I wish that I could say that I was looking forward to getting an iron infusion. But while I appreciate the temporary increase in physical and mental energy an iron infusion brings, I am not a fan of having to spend 6-8 hours getting an infusion, and the uncertainty of how I will react. To make matters more difficult, this will be the first time that I have to get an infusion without the companionship and protecting watch of my father.

But even though I do not like getting an iron infusion, my stomach cannot tolerate taking iron pills for more than a few days at a time. After a few days it makes my chronic nausea so strong that I dread meal time to the point that I at times I am delaying and even skipping meals. To alleviate the nausea I have to stop taking the nausea causing my iron levels to sea saw up and down, and slowly causing my iron stores and iron saturation to drop to a point that I can barely lift my head off the sofa and where some days even a few steps leaves me gasping for air.

Fortunately, while I have been waiting for my referral to reach the the hematologist, I found a couple of natural ways to help me get enough iron to help me do one or two task and breath a bit more comfortably. One natural remedy is to drink a bit of beet juice mixed with another juice like grape or apple juice. Mixing it with another juice is important as on its own, probably due in part to its strong flavor, it can be hard to keep down. But mixed and diluted by another juice like apple or grape it become more tolerable.

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Hope

Posted on by katherinebrianneparilli

Hope, it is something that we all desperately need to keep us going. With a good dose of hope, we would not have a reason to get out of bed in the morning. Because it is hope that that cheers us up when everything around us seems glum and impossible.

It is hope that takes hold of the strong arms of trust and faith to keep our heads above the billowing waves. When discouragement seeks to suffocate us and build such a high wall that we will never be able to enjoy another ray of sunlight again, it is hope that points us to the great promises of God and reminds us of the importance of trusting in things that though yet unseen, will one day become a wondrous reality.

Like a vitalizing tonic, hope has the power to revive the nearly dead soul. Bringing it back from the brink of lifelessness into a vibrant and purpose driven life.

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Anemia Again

Posted on by katherinebrianneparilli

It was a less then delightful way to spend a birthday, more than 3 hours in the doctor’s office. But it was a necessary misery as it turns out, and not unexpectedly at least to me, that my iron stores are low and my iron saturation at 4 percent is very low.

Even though my hemoglobin was normal on my last visit, I knew that my stores were getting seriously low. Thanks to the serious bouts of nausea and my allergies to food dyes, it is nearly impossible to keep my iron in check. The low dose of over the counter gentle iron helps to keep my energy up a bit. But all it takes is a few days off to try and settle my stomach for my iron levels to come crashing down. Lately it is only a matter of a few days without iron pills before I become as pale as a ghost, find it hard to lift my head off the sofa arm, I struggle to catch my breath, I start forgetting even the simplest of words, and my limbs become ice cold.

So like it or not, it looks like this anemia inspired acrostics is the perfect poem of the day. While I hate having to spend an entire day stuck in the infusion center, it looks like getting a referral to the hematologist and enduring 6 to 8 hours for an iron infusion is back to being a necessary evil.