I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed. – Mary Oliver
*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 My broken body’s journey (so far) – and how I’m carrying on.
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 crps flare #2 – looks like it’s here to stay (and it’s no respecter of birthdays either)
This wasn’t today’s original post. Today was already mostly ready and planned out. But sometimes the message keeps coming through that there is something else more pressing I need to write about (more on that in a bit) – so I will. This was my Monday. I know I always say I am grateful –…
A couple of days after Christmas, my daughter and I both got sick as Hale. Like laid out with the bronchitis/sinusitis plague, sick as Hale. That’s when I also remembered that I always manage to get super sick right after Christmas – maybe due to being run down or around lots of people or angering…
Yesterday morning, I read an article about Colin O’ Brady becoming the first person to ever cross Antarctica unassisted, a truly incredible feat. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/american-man-first-solo-across-antarctica-unaided-n952186 The explorer who attempted the same, Henry Worsley, in 2016 fell ill and passed away, just 30 miles short of his goal. Still, what an amazing attempt. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/25/explorer-henry-worsley-dies-during-antarctic-record-attempt It is also…
So, y’all, the flu still has me Laid. Out. But I actually made it to the shower yesterday in anticipation of the SEC Championship Game – even though I still felt like Hale – and I was super excited: And this whole getting ready thing turned out to be a MAJOR overdoing it. Henry and…
Read more my spoonie christmukkah 2018 hopefully helpful gift giving guide <3
The freaking flu again, y’all. 😦 Where I used to be totally “immune” to it (for lack of a better way to say it), as in I could work with patients with it every day and not catch it for literally YEARS, it is apparently my Kryptonite now. And I’m starting to settle in and…
It’s Thanksgiving morning and I just woke from a long-ish winter’s nap (five or so hours?) and I’m sitting here next to a snoring Wonderpup and we are all wrapped up in our toastys because it’s actually cold this morning (I love it when cold holidays actually are – never a sure thing in Alabama,…
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…
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…
