{"id":608,"date":"2009-04-07T13:46:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T20:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=608"},"modified":"2009-04-07T17:27:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T00:27:32","slug":"sometimes-its-just-not-pretty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes It&#8217;s Just Not Pretty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-609\" title=\"inpainglow-crop-300px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/inpainglow-crop-300px.jpg\" alt=\"inpainglow-crop-300px\" width=\"300\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/inpainglow-crop-300px.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/inpainglow-crop-300px-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>There are bad days and then there are those days that you wish it was merely bad.\u00a0 How the body can turn on a dime amazes me still.\u00a0 In the aftermath of a bad body flare there can sometimes be deep insight.\u00a0 And as we construct our own postmortem there may be openings into life behind the veil.\u00a0 But then there are simply moments of deep pain and suffering that come unbidden, last too long and provide nothing of value that we can appreciate.<\/p>\n<p>Today was one of those bad days.<\/p>\n<p>Be it menopause, thyroid storm, autonomic dysfunction or a whole slew of autoimmune body organism issues, the intensity and duration of the heat, the chills, the shaking and the mindless inability to cope in the moment was simply overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>On another day, there may have been an opportunity to touch the Divine during a moment of complete surrender &#8212; or a delightful story of how a charming not-so-furry-friend was there to help me ride the tides.\u00a0 But today was not one of those days.\u00a0 Sometimes it&#8217;s just not pretty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are bad days and then there are those days that you wish it was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,33,31],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chissa","tag-dysautonomia","tag-menopause","tag-thyroid"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}