- Chronic Pain, Fibromyalgia, Health & Wellness, Lupus (SLE), Mental Health, Reflections, Reflections & Advocacy
Self-care & Managing the Chaos
The resistance needs you, so you need to take care of yourself! Here are 5 ideas for self-care that altogether total 30 minutes. Give one or all of them a try and keep fighting!
Accidentally Like a Martyr
If only we were in the episode City on the Edge of Forever maybe we would be able to get a peep at what a monumental cluster-fuck our future is going to be and start doing the right fucking thing for a change.
A Rant
It's okay to want to be healthy. That's how you are supposed to feel.
Once more…
Life is the last good fight I’ll ever know. It’s beautiful and brutal, heartbreaking and tender.
Memory & Music
The more time I spent listening and remembering, the more I realized that Prince’s music was the touchstone for some of the most pivotal times in my adolescence and young adulthood.
I am More
I am more than a body with an illness. An exploration of recovery and self-perception.
The Rare Side Effects of Being Alive
Each day should come with a label, like the pieces of extraneous paper the pharmacy hands out with medication or those horrible televised commercials from Big Pharma.
Doctors, They will Come and They Will Go-Whoa-Whoa
Isn't it funny how monitoring symptoms and practicing medicine seems to assist in alleviating a patient’s concerns?
Lessons Learned
I thought I knew what to expect when we got on the phone with the credit counselor, after all, I’ve been on the counseling side of this conversation plenty of times. I was wrong. There were some unexpected lessons waiting for me on the other side of this experience that I had not anticipated.
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This blog is about life after a chronic illness plays merry hob with your hopes and your fears and life during the terrible and wonderful process of recovery.
