the autoimmune hippie.

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

brave

  • lots of news – and a lil’ snow!!! :)

    I have so many things I want to tell y’all. . . and I will. But, first, here’s the headline in my world today. . . I went to sleep – a full 24 hours of chemo coma, more or less. . . And woke up to (a lil’ bit of) SNOW!!!! I am VERY excited… Read more

  • i think i’ll remember this past week as the week that everything changed.

    Just this past Halloween – a couple of weeks ago – I shared this picture of myself, standing in my costume, ready to go with Sara and Henry and the rest of our bunch for a little bit: That night, if you had seen me walk, it would have been VERY slow – and I… Read more

  • navigating when i really can’t walk. and learning to be speedracer. and amazing jen hatmaker outings. and grace.

    First, I don’t know how to describe this shuffle and slide and hold on to everything-and-everybody-near-me thing I’ve got going on right now when I try to “walk” – but my mobility has gone to hell in a handbasket in the past couple of days (not that it was great before – but this is… Read more

  • shining light in a time of darkness

    At the end of a hate-filled week, an anti-Semitic alt-right psychopath entered the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh last Saturday and murdered eleven people during their time of worship. He injured two other worshipers as well as four police officers. It is heartbreaking and disgusting and just unbearable. After this horrific attack occurred, the… Read more

  • the best of and the worst of.

    The smell of hospitals in winter, And the feeling that it’s all a lot of oysters but no pearl. . . – Counting Crows I had a spectacularly shitty medical day today. Truly. Lots to tell. I’ve also had some wonderful times with my nearests and there are some soul stirring things I want to share… Read more

  • feeling the invisible.

    Y’all, it has been a holy hell, beast of a week, with all kinds of new and exciting symptoms manifesting – yay, autoimmune disease – and old foolishness rearing it’s ugly head too. All I have for this is “What the Frack?” As it happens, it’s also Invisible Illness & Disability Awareness Week – that’s… Read more

  • a busy day, a good day, and then something that stopped me in my tracks.

    With my bizarre sleep schedule, I often sleep for a few hours at a time and then my pain wakes me up – so I “nap nap” as my Henry knows it, throughout the day when I need to. As such, I woke up at about 3 AM yesterday morning and started working to get… Read more

  • heaviness.

    I have a “heavier thing” weighing on my mind to get to today. But, first, let’s talk about yesterday and today in Paleo/RA for a minute. I say both days because I actually started this post last night and wrote a large part of it before closing my eyes to rest at about 4 AM… Read more

  • 18 months – and a good good day. =D

    Yesterday was crammed full of All. The. (Good). Things. So much to tell. First, I got a notification that it was my 18 month soberversary: I know I’ve written often about all things substance abuse and sobriety – but this is different. I was laughing at myself earlier because I used to have a drink… Read more

  • happy recovery month, y’all!

    It’s been busy in the Hippie Hut so I’ve been a bit behind on the blog – and I am actually committing to remedying that now. I’ve decided I will be blogging daily from now on, even if it just a brief entry so a whole week doesn’t go by in the future without a… Read more