dancing through life – on broken feet
tales of a jesus-loving writer, her adorable little fam jam, the world's most fabulous weenie dog, grace, travel, love, life, and dealing with a rare and incurable autoimmune disease.
The thing about chronic illness is that I truly never know what's coming - and I never know what will be the thing that will just lay me out. I've been MIA because of an ailment that started with a resistant sinus infection. While unpleasant, I've had chronic sinusitis literally my entire life and I... Continue Reading →
As my long time readers know, my precious service dog, Henry, joined our family back in August of 2017 at the suggestion of my cardiologist when I was struggling mightily with my anxiety disorder and my heart rate was running amok. This was shortly - just a few weeks - after I had to give... Continue Reading →
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and I have wanted to talk about several things related to mental health issues and my own health - but, ironically, my health hasn't behaved well enough for me to get to that in these past few weeks. So, today I'm going to share about this week's health adventures... Continue Reading →
I cried at a picture of friends out sitting in folding chairs after finishing a trail hike this morning.I cried because I miss hiking and running trails sometimes (most of the time) and I didn't sign up for this week of pure pain syndrome hell that has just pushed me to my edges and floored... Continue Reading →
I know how everyone else's life is supposed to fly by Then someone turns and says What about you? And I stand here Mouth open Mind blank This should have all worked itself out by now The map of my life should be clear and precise With little red dashes and circles so nice Showing... Continue Reading →
I'm up really early this morning getting ready to return for my follow up appointment with my orthopedist from the surgery 12 days ago that helped to save my life - and I don't say that lightly. before & after Looking at the photos of my - misdiagnosed - left foot, before and after, honestly... Continue Reading →
This post I have to report a serious health crisis - but, thankfully, we are making it through. ❤ Initially, my left foot flared pretty nastily last month with my CRPS and my Rheumy tried a huge dosage of prednisone daily to see if that would knock it out - and it appeared to do... Continue Reading →
It's going to be a two post day here at the autoimmune hippie and I wanted to be sure to first let everyone know about Henry the Wonderpup. I am so so happy to report that his CBC yesterday afternoon showed that his white blood count had turned downward for the first time - which... Continue Reading →
On Friday morning, I took Henry for what was to be the last day of his glucose curves at the vet. He had been doing really well but had seemed really tired Thursday night. I figured the poor lil' fella has been through a lot. As we were standing for a nurse to come get... Continue Reading →
