It’s now been 2 months since my Filipino helper decided to give me a birthday present. I will not lie. Life has been tough. Very tough. Tougher still because I have what the Doctor calls Stress Induced Asthma (on top of my normal asthma). And when your baby cries non-stop, you start to hyperventilate. Your bronchial tubes choke up, you start choking and coughing and gasping for air and your inhalers no longer work because the passages down to the lungs are all clogged. Thus the medicine reaches as far as your mouth. Very scary indeed.

The Doctor has since warned me that I need to manage my stress levels (and although he gave me some steroid pills, the same ones I used to take when I used to be hospitalised every year in the UK for asthma, on top of my steroid inhalers and normal Ventolin inhalers; he said I really needed to not have stress in my life – yeah, what a joke) and I have been working hard to do that. But I haven’t done it without help. I have the loveliest friends from Blogosphere who have been so, so, so, sooooooooooooooo, SOOOOOOOOOOOO kind and they have been helping me with this little problem.

Firstly, one Mama introduced me to Cordyceps and after some nagging, I eventually got some in my kitchen and boy, does it help. It really, really does help and I recommend that anyone with lung problems and asthma should drink cordyceps soup or take cordyceps in some form or other at least once a week. I’m trying to do that now but as we have no maid, I’m trying to keep dinners simple. And to me Western dishes are more simple. So the Chinese Cordycep soup gets forced to come out once a week.

Another Mama, my God…..she totally blew my mind away when she sent over a tin of Godiva Hot Chocolate to my husband’s office. And as it is my only tin (and something too expensive to buy!) I have been using it very sparingly and only in emergency cases!! And that is when I am really, really, REALLY, well and truly stressed and have had an extremely rough day. You know those days, right? Yup. Those days? I make myself a gorgeous, gorgeous, CHOCOLATY mug of Godiva (my fu*king best buddy, man) and my nerves resolve into instant calm. I kid you not.

Thank you, my friends. THANK YOU.

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