Category: mental health.
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heavy & honest things.
The notes for this post have grown – and found several unexpected turns – in the past few weeks as I’ve been wrapping up Spring Semester. It’s always a wild ride at the end of term – but this one especially since I had some pretty substantial hospital and sick time so I had projects […]
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honoring the memory of erin gilmer – and considering some of my most difficult days at the hands of the medical community as well. (we must do better for those in chronic pain.)
As I wrote in my previous post, my rheumatologist had to take unexpected medical leave and cancelled all of his appointments suddenly – which he could not help – but he left WITHOUT providing another physician to cover for him. As my medications ran out from what was to have been my June 29th appointment, […]
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sharing a short devotional from my book on another day of loss in our community.
Today, following my previous post on mental health and suicide, I want to share a short devotional from my book. Since I posted, there has been another stunning loss in our community of a beloved local news anchor. He was a gifted young man with a family, married with three children, and his death is […]
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speaking my heart on mental health and suicide.
Earlier this week, I was just rocked to learn of the passing of a precious soul in our local Christian community, Steve Austin. Steve was the minister over a really big youth program some years ago, prior to experiencing mental health struggles and surviving a suicide attempt. After that, he began opening up – and […]
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sober up, Tropicana. you should be ashamed.
Many of you may have missed Tropicana’s, ahem, genius recent marketing campaign with Gabrielle Union – the ad I saw – as well as apparently Molly Sims and Jerry O’Connell – as it was only around for a few days on Instagram for good reason – but my initial post about it was already underway […]
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oh, the oscopies and the anxieties. . .
As you can see, yesterday was a super fun day in my world. After a long long (LONG) time contending with massive GI symptoms, I had stalled as long as I could and I had to have an endoscopy and colonoscopy. First, let me say that I have no problem actually having the procedure – […]
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sudden illness, hospital visits, and too close to covid-19 for comfort.
Quite suddenly over the past few days, I developed a significant GI bleed. It became clear quickly that there was no way to manage with waiting on a GI appointment and I would have to go to the ER – which I have tried desperately to avoid – to get to the cause of it. […]
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fractured centre (x2)
Running. Running. Running. Barefoot through the dew covered grass. Running – Until I’m breathless. . . All a dream. Often in my dreams. . . I run free. Long. And return home. . . Hot, tired, sweat-covered. . . Happy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . […]
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a health detour and some mental health talk for awareness month. . .
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 […]
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thoughts on prednisone, moon face, Ashley Judd, & “if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all”
I’ve been on prednisone for a LONG time now, y’all. Way too long, in fact. When I first fell ill with Celiac Disease in the fall of 2012, symptoms of my systemic autoimmune disease soon followed – and I soon began receiving frequent steroid injections as well as having to take courses of oral prednisone […]
the autoimmune hippie. 