Frosted Thoughts

Chris Frost · October 10, 2025

Frosted Thoughts

Oxnard—After a rather grueling weekend delivering the paper and going to community events in Oxnard and Ventura, more about that later, I went home, had dinner, watched a little TV on my computer, and went to sleep.

THOSE who read Frosted Thoughts know I’m a bad sleeper, but on this night, I fell asleep quickly and slept for six hours. That’s unheard of in my world.

I woke up feeling great and refreshed, but when I started to get out of bed, my leg began to shake, followed by my arms and my whole body.

Unfortunately, since my kidneys don’t pro­cess toxins in my body well, they build up in my bloodstream, caus­ing my body to shake, while my heart rate in­creases rapidly.

Interesting things to note: it mostly happens at night, and when I lie on my stomach and exercise with my little Kettle Bell, which is a good thing; I’m in horrible shape, and it helps to stem the tide of all my shakes.

When this happens, I can’t write, sleep, or eat. I’ll get sick even watching a show on my computer. I watch video church night­ly and pray a lot for a quick end to…

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