I have suffered from mild to severe anxiety for as long as I can remember, and even before I knew what anxiety even was. I have a family history of anxiety. I remember several times as a teenager driving my dad, who looked like he was having a heart attack, to the Emergency Room and…
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Naked, Afraid, and Soon-to-be Utterly Alone
Ok, I’m not literally naked, because my dad lives with us and that is completely horrifying, but I am exposing my soul completely in the upcoming series of blog posts. As you know if you have ever met me or read any of my writing, I suffer from fairly extreme clinical anxiety. I have been…
Read more60 Days of Plexus – An Update
Alright, so last month I posted about my first month taking Plexus products to help improve my terrible health. Yesterday marked the end of my second month on the products, so I wanted to share how things have been going! Sleeping like a freaking rock at night – I don’t even hear the dog crying…
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HumpDaaaay Headaches…What stands in your way?
It’s Hump Daaaaay! I don’t know why this phrase makes me laugh, but when a camel says it you just have to go with it, I think. Happy Wednesday! I finally managed to get together my Healthy Living Guide for my Get Healthy and Save Yourself support group, and I have been really happy with…
Read moreThere’s no such thing as a mistake… Only choices. Very Bad Choices.
Good morning! I can say that now, because it is not yesterday. And yesterday was really good, until it wasn’t. I have a belief that there are no such things as mistakes in life. Only choices. Some choices are good, and some are terribly bad. But saying, “Oh, I made a mistake” is a cop-out. …
Read moreBut You Don’t LOOK Sick…
Oh, how many times I have heard this. “You don’t look sick.” I have heard it from friends, family, bosses, doctors, nurses, and random other assholes. But I am sick, and I have been for a long time. When I was a kid, I suffered from severe asthma. You don’t see that business unless you…
Read moreSummer Suckfest 2014
I don’t know what is in the air or the water this summer, but it has been a giant suckfest. I guess I had high hopes for the summer. Actually, I don’t know that I have hope of much of anything anymore. It seems every time I look forward to something it goes it hell…
Read moreA Day that will Live in Infamy…
A year ago today, I felt like crap. That wasn’t really anything out of the norm for me. After spending three years in and out of the hospital without much hope for feeling better permanently, I had gotten used to feeling terrible. But this time, it was a little different. Honestly, I didn’t feel any…
Read moreTime vs. Healing
Someone once said that time heals all wounds. Whoever said this was a sucker. Anyone who has ever been wounded, physically or emotionally, would tell you this isn’t exactly true. Let’s look at this physically. If you get a big gaping cut on your arm, what happens if you just allow time to take its…
Read moreFlight of the Phlebotomists
This past week has been a rough one for me. Actually, most of the last two weeks have been downright awful. I ended up getting sick (again) and landed in the ER not once, but twice, and was admitted for 4 days the second trip. I won’t get into the specifics of that, but let’s…
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