Salads and Frost Bite

Diet
The leafy greens in my veggie patch are flourishing which is awesome
- Rocket
- Mustard leaves
- Pak choi
- Watercress
- etc

Cucumbers and tomatoes are also fruiting :)

So for the last 2 weeks I have enjoyed fresh salad everyday with different items:
- Blasamic Vinegar and Olive oil
- And sometimes mozarella / makeral / avocado or what ever else I feel like adding.

I have also cut out sugar/processed foods most of the time (people keep giving me cakes/ice cream/biscuits). After all sugar tends to cause inflammation in the body. I realise now that the January rash may have been caused by the Christmas bingeing. Hmm will see if I can eradicate the rashes from my body and abort eating the normal Christmas feasting.

The skin is feeling less itchy after 2 weeks of salads :)

Frostbite Reflections
Recently I've rediscovered Aloe Vera...... In 2014, I had grade 2-3 frostbite on one finger from playing in -50 degrees Celsius. I had minor frostbite on the rest of the fingers. The one bad finger suffered more than the rest as it had been broken the year. At St George's hospital in London, my frostbitten finger was treated like a rock star with the consultants. They all wanted photos of it! And the hand specialist from St George's wanted to chop the finger off!

I contacted a professor up in the Midlands (Professor Imray) who had an interest in frost bite (he's a climber and spent time in Chamonix) and he recommended applying aloe vera.

I religiously put that stuff on day and night. 6 weeks after the incident the hand specialist from St George's still wanted to chop the finger off despite there being no infection (I had to return to see him on a follow up appointment) and pressed hard to see if there was any life. I was pretty mad with him and changed my consultant.

12 weeks later I had a shiney new finger (the black outer dead skin fell off). I attributed that to the aloe vera that helped the healing and bathing the finger in salt water baths when the black outer layer became cracked.. I applied salt water at the end of the day to disinfect any bacteria from my normal day to day activities.

Back to July 2016
So I had a pretty bad scratching session one night, ripped apart my skin on the inside of my elbow. The creams of course were stinging when I applied it to the skin. Then I remembered the healing power of aloe vera. After enduring 1/2 day of stinging with constant applications of aloe vera, the skin appears to be rapidly healing again, better than when I was just applying "the mosturising creams".

Anyway been doing this for 2 days and there is a better improvement versus the mosturising creams by themselves. Let's see how this goes for 10 weeks.