spoonie life.
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The stunning tree sculpture pictured above was sighted while traipsing in to see one of my many doctors for what feels like my annual pre-holiday *very* minor in-office procedure – just enough to require a 14 day course of antibiotics. I am really, really, really grateful to be as well as I am with all… Read more
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I’m sure over the years I’ve mentioned my mitral valve prolapse (MVP) issues during our spoonie talks – however this week, my body has been extraordinarily reactive to illness and to a week I just don’t know how to put into words – and I am having the most ridiculous heart palpitations I have had,… Read more
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Most days I’ve been able to post no matter – but this time combined migraines and nausea and dizziness won me. soooo. . . I’ll be back to try again for day 20. Be well, everybody. Take care yourselves and each other. Grace and Blessings. Read more
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When I committed to blog every day for the month of October, I never imagined what that might look like if I got properly sick and had just a shit week for want of a better way to say it – yet, here we are. I had to cry uncle at day 5 of the… Read more
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Y’all, I’m afraid that day 16 of blogtober is just a hello because I am at the midpoint of my combined antibiotic therapy – but this is the first time I have ever taken these two together – and I am SO freaking sick. I am completely exhausted with the worst abdominal cramping with these… Read more
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Yesterday my PCP sent in an antibiotic for *another* infection after my visit earlier this week – so now I’m on two different ones for the next week – and it has hit me hard. In addition, I’m having some of my CRPS nerve symptoms in a huge way – like the “ice blocking” feet… Read more
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As I’m still recovering and my brain fog has felt too thick to start with the topics I have saved for this month, it seemed fitting that today is World Arthritis Day. 😉 Among the diagnosis included in World Arthritis Day are: lupus, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and gout. (There are over 100 types… Read more
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Y’all, last week’s huge fall still has me to the mat in some surprising ways. It is over a week out now – and in some ways I may be worse? I mean in the sense that this has triggered my chronic pain and nerve issues and is just gnarly. My feet are thankfully infection… Read more
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Well. I started today feeling unwell after having been just exhausted yesterday – but I had an appointment that was really important so I got going and went out and about. After my appointment and a few stops, I actually thought I had done pretty well and had gotten everything done. I was tired –… Read more
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There is a quote that pops up frequently in spoonie circles: “Just because I carry it well doesn’t mean it isn’t heavy.” Yes. I am tough and strong and blessed and grateful – and sometimes I’m also tired and a bit overwhelmed and in a lot of pain and feeling out of sorts. Many things… Read more
