Category: My Journey

Thank You for Keeping Ruth Outta Jail

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I want to thank all these people below. They gave me hand-me-down clothes at one point in the last 12 years and I’m still wearing them.

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It’s not that I don’t have the Thank You cards…

I’ve been thinking about how when someone gives you new clothes, you think to write a Thank You card. And if you are an asshole, like me, that is as far as you get. Other people follow the thought with the action.

It’s hard enough for me to write a Thank You card when I know I’m supposed to, but when people give used clothes, I think there is a national understanding that donating is kind and quick, maybe you’ll get a hug or a tax write-off, but never a Thank You card. Maybe because if you drop-off at the Good Will, you never know who is going to receive it, and the receiver doesn’t have an address with which to send a card, and the good deed goes by in a woosh. But even when you give clothes to a friend, there is joy, and gratitude, feelings of Yay! But never a Thank You card.

I might be wrong about that. I haven’t asked enough hand-me-downees about their card giving rates…

Anyway, you guys, my dear friends who have given me clothes, I don’t know if you know that I think of you all of the time when I get dressed (dirty) and that when you casually and generously gave me an item of clothing, it really helped me out!

(Also, you may not know you gave me clothing because you may have given it to a friend who gave it to me, or you may have put it in a bin on the sidewalk for homeless people and while needing the bin, I discovered the clothes and kept them as well… But that second scenario person knows I have her clothes because she is my neighbor and I told her about it. Because I knew that inevitably one day she would see me wearing a full outfit made entirely of her wardrobe and it’d be weird for both of us. If I didn’t prep her beforehand… “So don’t be weirded out,” I texted, “…or DO be weirded out, but don’t be surprised.” She’s cool with it.)

Today I felt like you should know the impact you’ve made so I’m writing you this virtual Thank You card and yelling a loud belly “THANK YOU” to you.

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Stories from Aunt Ruth

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There are so many things I’m excited to share on this site! Here a few ideas that I’m eager to write about, as something I can look forward to, and hopefully you will too :)… Continue reading “Stories from Aunt Ruth” →

Female Isolation not good for Boobies Cancer

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I am currently living at my mom’s apartment in Los Angeles County, a place where cars are pivotal, and I am injured and can’t drive. Since arriving, Mom has become unable to drive as well. I am about 45 minutes outside of Los Angeles the city where my friends live. I also have an injured foot, so it hurts to walk. I feel increeedibly isolated. I can’t drive, bike, or walk. It’s a “catch 22″… I need to go to the doctor and acupuncturist so I’ll heal and be able to transport myself places, but I can’t transport myself to those places in order to heal.

I had a beautiful day with my Mama today though. She’s been suffering from a mental illness and for the past 10 months I felt like I wasn’t with her. She was here, but she was either depressed or manic and I couldn’t connect with her like I can with my true, sweet, awesome Mama. But today I could!!! And I felt much better.

I started doing physical therapy two days ago. It is the Egoscue Method. I have to do the exercises every single day and each week they will give me new ones. Although I feel isolated, when I am with friends, I often feel like I need to be working on healing. And then when I am here with Mama doing my physical therapy, I feel like I need to be with friends to work on emotional healing.

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Eye Had a Zit

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I bought a small nail-polish sized jar of pure, organic vitamin E oil for $10 at Whole Foods. Two days ago, I used it as face lotion at night for the first time and woke up with a zit on the under side of my top eye lashes. It was weird. So are my pores in these photos. It went away and my eye is fine.  (I flushed it with filtered water five times after I scratched the zit. Gross!) eyezit1 eyezit2

Food Glorious Food

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Mama went from 148 lbs to 125 lbs in 3 months eating this way. Her doc also took her off of her mood stabilizefood glorious food r, Zyprexa, as we started the diet. Over the last 3 years, Zyprexa made her gain ALOT of weight and it raised her blood sugar levels to a near-diabetic state. She lost 12.5 lbs the first month of this diet, mostly due to the medicene change. But continues to lose 2-4 lbs per month with the lifestyle change!  Her blood sugar and her BMI (Body Mass Index) are in the normal range again!

I had gained a few extra pounds on my trip to Utah and LA.  Nana’s cooking is tasty, but not good for the waistline, and Becca eats healthily, but in portions for a calorie-burning yoga instructor, not a motionless spinally-injured me.  After eating according to this paper for 2 months, I lost 7 lbs and am back at my high school weight! (Except in high school, it was all muscle, where as today, I’m still weak. But one step at a time…)

*There’s one change we made to the diet, drink your water separately from your meals.

**And since starting my nutrition program at the beginning of August, my diet has changed even more. But I thought this would be a good start for Clara. Food, Glorious Food