One of the benefits of seeing a naturopathic doctor is you learn all sorts of tricks modern medicine has no idea about. When Steve and I were at the doctor last Tuesday they were asking me about my pain level and how I planned to cope with it. Wine, of course! They agreed this would work but also suggested I stop at the store and buy some cabbage. Apparently, used by midwives, to help nursing mothers with breast pain, this extraordinary veggie is the perfect shape for breast pain no matter the cause!. We stopped at the store on the way home and I chose a small organic (cuz breast lumps and Monsanto shouldn’t be mixed) and popped it in the freezer.

After dinner Steve and I settled on the couch to watch a funny Christmas movie and I nestled layers of frozen cabbage in my bra. It was remarkably soothing. I kept thinking, “I’m going to have to take cabbage to school with me tomorrow”! Sooner than later, I asked Steve if he could smell what seemed like a gas leak coming from the fireplace. Nope. Just me and my sensitive nose. Then I decided my hands smelled of the gas leak…possibly from the pot stickers I had fixed for dinner? I went to the bathroom to wash my hands and discovered my sweater reeked of something BAD! Think full gas leak that might blow up your house. I went around smelling everything. Steve could still smell nothing. Finally, I just decided to take my sweater off because it was clearly contaminated and that’s when I discovered I had cooked cabbage in my bra!!!! For realz. Frozen cabbage goes to a cook state pretty darn fast. Which is good to know in case there’s a power outage. I didn’t even know my body was capable of cooking dinner itself. Amazing things are happening!

I’ve now just moved on to alternating ice packs and that seems to smell better but when the pain gets too bad those cabbage leaves are coming back out.

Happy Sunday! #lovewins

PS. If you are reading this without knowing me I was a lunch lady for 3.5 years. I took the job in order for my son to stay in the school district he had grown up in after we moved 4 blocks outside of the district boundaries. I always say it’s one of the best jobs I’ve ever had. The women and men I worked with were absolutely amazing and the kid’s were never disappointing. I loved this job.