It's time for a Friday Favorite! My favorite thing to share with you today is: Ricola Cough Drops No, I am not kidding! These things are a staple in my house. No other drop works quite like these do. My husband, who's cheap and tends to just prefer the generic brand of cough drops, even says these are good. While the menthol in a drop like Hall's tends to help for a while, I've found that the Ricola ingredients provide relief that lasts longer. Three weeks ago or so, all five of us got ...
Tackling Costochondritis – My Regimen
This blog entry is about my struggle with costochondritis. You can read my story and follow my blog entries in chronological order by going to this link. Writing a blog entry for dealing with this costochondritis is not easy. I probably should start writing down a list of thoughts before I blog about this. I have a feeling I'll be sitting here cutting and pasting my words so that they'll not be so jumbly (and the spell-check says "jumbly" is not a word--but I'm saying it is today). More than a ...
Tackling Costochondritis – the History of My Issues With It
I have a series of blog entries on my struggles with pinpointing the cause and the treatment for costochondritis. During these next few weeks and months, I'm going to document the inception of my issues with costochondritis, my struggles with pain, what's helped and what's not, and my research on holistic treatment of it. Costochondritis is an inflammation of the sternum. It is often a temporary problem that some have, but for others like me, it becomes a chronic condition. I would say that ...
