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Don’t Chastise Yourself
The Archangels Guide Us to Give Ourselves Compassion
(*previously published on http:www.asktheangels222.com)
I get really bad fever blisters. No, really bad. They’re more than unsightly or an inconvenience; they make me sick, like I have the flu, with fever, chills, body aches, etc. Sometimes, the entire left side of my face swells! They’ve been so bad, a doctor from long ago took pictures of me, hiding my eyes from the photo to make it more anonymous, and put them in a medical journal and presentation. He really needn’t have bothered with covering part of my face, because I was barely recognizable as a human, appeared more like … the creature from the black lagoon, maybe. I used to get them several times a year, and they’d knock me down for a week or so. Thankfully, the older I get, the less I get them, and when I do, and the anti-viral meds I take don’t head them off, they still don’t get as bad or last so long as they used to, but they can still make me sick for a few days. The number one cause for those fever blisters? Stress!
You’re probably wondering why I’m sharing all this fascinating information with you. For the last several years, getting fever blisters has been a rarity, but with all the changes I’m going through lately on many levels, I’ve had two in the last month or so. As a matter of fact, I’m…
