Living with Fibromyalgia as a Mom
I am a mother and I am a daughter. I am a father and I am a son. I was busy living my life, and one day I got sick. I went to the doctor and they ran test after test after test and could not figure out what was wrong with me. I am […]
Read MoreThings have been crazy. I worked 5 days 2 weeks ago (something I have not been able to do since 2005) and 20 hours last week and we have had the new puppy for a little over a week now. My husband’s best friend came to stay with us over the weekend, and we partied […]
Read MoreI am very fortunate to live in one of a limited number of cities that boast a Mayo Clinic. I saw an associate of my regular doctor today and she was amazing. Diagnosed the pain in my back with some complex name that I did not write down and can’t remember, referred me to a […]
Read MoreA few months later my husband graduated with 2 BS degrees in Finance and we were ready to start our life for real. During the first 5 years of our marriage, he had been completing his undergrad full-time and working full-time. This had left us a bit distant and out of touch with each other. […]
Read MoreLast night I was exhausted. Like, couldn’t keep my eyes open exhausted. So I went to bed. The second I hit the start button on my sleep timer, a switch flipped on inside of me. The Ocean Waves track I listen to for sixty minutes every night to fall asleep, which usually does the trick […]
Read MoreThree pounds. Last Monday revealed, after completing two weeks of intermittent fasting, that I lost three pounds. Thank God. It was a paltry relief, though, if that makes sense. I’m not gonna say I expected that simply narrowing the window of time I spend eating each day was going to quickly morph me into a […]
Read MoreShortly after Thanksgiving, my 101-year-old grandmother choked on a piece of food. She came through surgery okay, but after a week or so there was fluid collecting around her lungs and her heart wasn’t functioning properly. Like most do when one happens to be 101, her doctors recommended hospice. I haven’t seen her since her […]
Read MoreI watched her for the better part of six months. Ever since I saw her in the elevator on that spring day and realized she was pregnant, I started paying attention. She lived on the same floor of my apartment building, two doors down. Yet we never spoke beyond the occasional head bob or mumbled […]
Read MoreA few years ago my husband was studying for a licensing exam and had to devote the majority of his non-working hours to cramming. He works best at the coffee shop, so after work and both days on the weekends, that’s where he went. I was already living a solitary life and losing contact with […]
Read MoreThe cook who doesn’t eat, the dog trainer who’s never owned a dog, the marriage counselor who has yet to be married. I mean honestly, how effective can one be? Yet for a number of years, I fell into the aforementioned category. I was a writer who didn’t read. I could list my litany of […]
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