Y’all, I’m so happy to report that we are still in slow, healing, home-and-doctors-appointments days here in the Hippie Hut.

As we could have predicted, my RA joints, particularly my left hand and my knees, have exploded in the wake of all these malnutrition issues and severe systemic disease – so I will be seeing my rheumy this week.

Last week, I was able to take myself in Grover to my PCP and also out for a nerve conduction study (that was so painful 😣). Still, I was so thankful to be able to load up and go.

I need Ellie the Cane to get around safely (I’m still dealing with some gnarly balance issues) and I have to go slowly – but I’m building up strength little by little. 🖤

I’m also so thankful that my gastroparesis medication continues to work amazingly well – despite it supporting my shameful CPK thin crust BBQ chicken pizza and Smartfood white cheddar popcorn addictions, 👀

(When you haven’t eaten literally in months – and you are diagnosed with severe protein malnutrition that hasn’t entirely corrected yet – oh my word, it is a next level type of hungry. 😳😂😳)

I know there is a long way to go – and my baseline health still involves several complex illnesses – but we will get through them as we always have.

Also, always the book nerd, in thinking about the beauty of ordinary days – and how much we all miss them when they are taken – I remembered a wonderful book I read some years ago by an Anglican priest, Tish Harrison Warren, called liturgy of the ordinary: sacred practices in everyday life. Thinking that I had really loved it, I pulled it from my library and reread it yesterday – and I encourage y’all to add it to your TBR as well. It is so lovely.

I am just so thankful to be here where I belong, home with my people and puppies, working to get stronger, resting, healing, and getting ready to share my book with y’all (and celebrate Fall and football too 🐶🖤🐶).

Be well, everybody. Take care of yourselves and each other.

Grace and Blessings.