We had put our house on the market earlier in the year and at the end of November 2005 we sold up in Cardiff and moved 45 miles away to Swansea. It was a very stressful time as most moves are, especially as we had booked up a holiday to go away for Christmas again to Fuerteventura, and the time of the completion was likely to clash with it.  However it all went ahead OK in the end – but not without mishaps and delays and we didn’t have time to sort out the house we had moved to a great deal so had it all to face when we got back in January.

When we got back, I caught a really bad flu type virus, which seemed to hang around for ages.  I think it was a combination of the stress of moving, the hard work we were putting in and coming back from a warm climate to the wet and cold – which left me feeling low.  I have learned since then to get rid of viruses by taking vitamin C every couple of hours. Any virus that I’ve picked up since then has lasted just 1-2 days.

As I was ill, I had to cancel my scan in January and went at the end of February 2006 instead. I remember that there was snow on the ground the day we went and it was freezing cold. This scan was not quite as good as the last one: the nipple area difference was now 2.9 degrees and the blood test PK had gone up to 37.00.  However, when I explained that I had been ill with a viral infection for 3 weeks, had moved within the last few months and had been overdoing things a bit, he said that my immune system being lowered was probably the reason and I was not absorbing the vitamins as much.

I went back on to the apricot kernels four to five times a day, and got plenty of rest. It was a good summer and we used to go to the beach quite a bit to take advantage of the weather. We carried on doing the work in the house, but at not such a frantic pace. By June it was more or less finished, so we took a short holiday to Turkey where the gloriously hot weather really lifted my spirits.  The food was great there too and it was really easy to eat healthily. I was eating salads a lot as it was so hot and I tried my first ever Turkish bath and massage which was great, as it really got the toxins out and made me feel fantastic. All in all we had a really relaxing time.

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SUSAN INSOLE, BSYA (N Th.) is a former NHS nurse and is now a nutritional therapist in the field of natural health.  She worked in a health care setting for 16 years, firstly in the field of rehabilitation and then as a welfare officer and secretary within a hospital setting.  She was also an advisor for weight loss in 2001 - 2003. She achieved a diploma in 2006 for nutritional therapy. She is the author of a downloadable eBook, What Works in Health. Her website is: www.naturalhealthbenefits.com.