the autoimmune hippie.

Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. . . Practice resurrection. – Wendell Berry

Miranda Herring

  • on a mission.

    Recently, I have been researching complementary therapies to hopefully improve my health and pain levels – in addition to, not in place of, my traditional medication regimen (though I would love to see that reduced one day – but that isn’t anything I foresee unfortunately). See, with my physicians, it feels as though I am… Read more

  • My broken body’s journey (so far) – and how I’m carrying on.

    *This is just an introduction piece I wrote for another site and I’m posting it here as well.  At age 33, I fell quite suddenly ill, not long after my happily ever after wedding to my amazing husband. After some really tough years of a bad situation, I had gotten out, moved on, met my… Read more

  • safety. first.

    There is a topic that is capital B, Bothering Me. It’s not usually in my wheelhouse – which is why I haven’t written about it before – but I’m talking about it now because it’s important. Some of you may remember a reviling news story last August from Colorado where the Watts family – Shanann… Read more

  • happy chinese new year! – but it’s the year of the zebra for me.

    If you needed to consult the University of Google yesterday, you saw that even the Google art reflected the Year of the Pig (and it was adorable). My year is shaping up a bit differently though. . . You see, in medical schools everywhere, students are frequently taught an old expression: “When you hear hoofbeats,… Read more

  • the inflammation station.

    First, let me make mention that yesterday, February 2, was World Rheumatoid Awareness Day. RA is the original beast in my world, having brought with it the disability and the broken feets and the CRPS and all the other mean and nasty stuff. By itself, though, RA is more than enough. . . This past… Read more

  • becoming my own crps expert – and taking my life back.

    In my little corner of the world, several of my near & dear have been facing some really damn HARD – my lifelong friend with metastatic breast cancer in her spine has just learned that she may have to deal with ANOTHER effing spinal surgery, a precious Tt sister had a beast of a relapse… Read more

  • thank goodness, my Henry is on the mend – and back by my side. . .

    Five days ago, I turned 40 and my amazing family just spoiled me so. . . Beautiful gifts from my husband and daughter and our Mom, Pop, and GJ. . . and flowers and Mumford and Sons tickets (!!!). . . and vegan GF cupcakes from this heavenly little bakery. . . It was wonderful.… Read more

  • Dear New York, This Is Insanity. . .

    Wow. Just wow. New York, you have really outdone yourselves. A couple of days ago, when I saw news on my Facebook feed of your new abortion law, the initial post was from a conservative site, so I honestly thought that the case for what this law was perhaps had been spun somehow. So I… Read more

  • crps flare #2 – looks like it’s here to stay (and it’s no respecter of birthdays either)

    On Saturday, I felt an odd SNAP in my left foot. It felt like a bone breaking, another one. That was followed by intense fatigue so I tried to rest as much as my body wanted since that is the foot that my Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) started in and I certainly didn’t want… Read more

  • rotten physicians, overdue therapists, divine poets. . .

    Settle in, y’all. This is a long one. First of all, yesterday was ortho day – and that’s never good. But this time it was different. I also had another appointment scheduled after ortho. And I have STILL been incredibly sick with sinus plague that is causing nosebleeds and worsening body pain and fevers and… Read more