For some inexplicable reason, my CRPS in my left foot has exploded right now. It seemed to improve for a day or so - and then just went off the rails completely - as in, back in my smartchair for anything that requires any real walking or standing, off the rails. This is NOT GREAT.…
As you probably know, it's Pride month - and a Happy Pride to you all! You also know that I live in Alabama. As such, I have many things to share, some unpleasant, most lovely, today. So, let's begin. What Target Doesn't Understand For starters, last week my daughter, Sara, mentioned that many people on…
800 days. I'm writing to you with what I'm convinced is plague. Well, not really. Just a summer cold I woke up with, likely picked up from our adventuring somewhere over the past several days. Still, when everything, including my face, is sort of throbbing, plague it is in my book. 😉 But I'm pretty…
Like the good Jack Kerouac, we love to go, and my bestie and I hit the road on Thursday for a lil' day trip. Like always, bestie days on the road, hanging out, talking, and laughing, are one of my very favorites. ❤ We went to this amazing place in Cullman, Alabama called Ave Maria…
I was totally and completely wiped today - health stuff - so I spent most of the day in bed. When I got up this evening, I managed a shower and picked up Sara and Henry from the park where they had taken a stroll to make a super speedy grocery store run. Upon returning…
The past few years I've posted a seriously heavy Mother's Day post because - historically - it isn't my favorite day and I've let those feelings fly. However, today, the day after Mother's Day, I want to share some thoughts from a more peaceful place. This Mother's Day was different. First, I went to church…
May 1st (today) is a fabulous day, our Mom's birthday, and our Henry's birthday as well. Today is also a heavy, but important, anniversary, as it marks ten years since one of my dearest friends, Andrea Smith, passed away at 37 years old after battling ovarian cancer for more than two years. We became friends…
When I shared my previous post on Facebook, I had to laugh and tell everyone that I felt like the April Fools was on me, because, as sure as I wrote it all, my CRPS launched into a full pain crisis and has stayed there. I still meant - and mean - every word of…
Y'all, it seems that my Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is trying to flare in a bizarre sort of way right now. I've written about it before but CRPS is sort of a medical anomaly anyway and it is new to me as well as I just developed it at the end of last year…
Shortly after midnight last night, this popped up on my phone: Going alcohol free is still absolutely one of the best decisions I have ever made. My second year of sobriety has been a been a beautiful one for sure, with adventures great and small. I've been on some wonderful road trips: And…
