Another day, another surgery. So what else is new this year, right? This time the aneurysm on my internal carotid artery, found incidentally prior to my brain surgery two months ago, was to meet its doom via the Pipeline Embolization Device!
Dear Caregiver, You don’t know me. I’m just another nameless face in the crowd of the near dozen people who crowd into your chronically ill child’s hospital room every morning to discuss the plan of care for the day. Generally, you have no need to interact with me and I don’t have much to…
Having three surgeries in four months makes for a lot of pre-op testing. Today was pre-op day for surgery number three in 2016-placement of the Pipeline Embolization Device for my aneurysm. The day began far too early. I went to bed at midnight because my first appointment was at 8:15 am. Unfortunately, I woke…
Since things have been getting a little dark around here lately, I want to lighten it up. I currently have 124 followers and many more who read my posts on Facebook and Twitter. So, to make things exciting… I want ALL OF YOU to submit a question (or more) you would like to ask me…
I once had a coworker tell me, “We just want the old Laura back.” It was at a time earlier this year when I went on my first continuous leave from work in the hopes that the rest would break the cycle of migraines I had found myself in. Everyone knew that something was…
“…lit up like a star…” Ok, I know it’s a little bit early. Last year we didn’t put the tree up until the week after Thanksgiving (but only because we ended up having to buy a new tree, so we got one online for 50% off on Thanksgiving, ha!) But I had to do…
Wow. I never expected to be nominated for anything of the sort, but indeed, I have been nominated for (and therefore received) the Versatile Blogger Award by Tracy (aka spooniemom) over at Me, My Spoons & I. I have only been blogging for a few months, but thank you for considering my contribution to…
Trigger warning: depression and self harm Last night was a rough night. Not as bad as it could have been. Just some tears and feeling sorry for myself. It’s always worst late at night, especially after David goes to bed (I can probably count on one hand the number of times I’ve gone to…
What if I can’t? I can’t stop worrying about the future, even though I know it’s in God’s hands. I’m not sure what He wants me to do, and right now it scares me. I have a huge decision to make that I don’t know if I’m capable of making. I can’t find anything…
Sorry men, this post may be too much for you. Unless you’re used to being around angry uteruses. Right now my uterus is angry. Feisty. Rebellious. And just generally pissed off. The result of which is why I am awake at 3:30 am when I’m really tired and just want to sleep. But no….
