Day 2: How have these illnesses affected your life? Ha. Ha. Ha. Shortest blog post ever. Rather than rehash everything again, I can’t say anything better than I already have. So click away. Celiac Disease: The Road to Gluten Free Endometriosis: You have what in your where? Know Your Enemy The Gold Standard A…
I’m going to be doing this challenge I found on Pinterest for the month of August. Fasten your seat belts. You’re probably going to learn more about my illnesses than you want to. Most of these will be pretty short, so I may be double-posting with some other longer posts on some days. Day…
As yet another month of 2016 begins and the summer ebbs on, I am left to reflect. Sorry, it’s just something I do late at night, and it’s late at night here in northeast Ohio. Or actually, really early in the morning. My previous post July-A Month in Review was a reflection on all…
Part of the reason I started this blog is to raise awareness, specifically about certain medical conditions that affect me in my daily life. As I was being interviewed last week by the crew of Endo What and the memories of my endo story came flooding back as I retold it in front of…
Dear David, When you asked my daddy for permission to marry me, I know you had no idea what you were getting into. But then, nobody could have anticipated what was going to happen.
Dear Dr. Recinos, We just met two months ago. In fact, if you passed me in the hallway, you probably wouldn’t even remember my name. But I just want to tell you that you pretty much saved my life. And you haven’t even laid a hand on me yet.
Read part one of this story in For This Child We Pray. The most challenging part of dealing with infertility is the tendency to blame yourself for something you have no control over. Features from my own journals include: “Is it something I’m doing wrong? Am I doing something that’s making me not ovulate?…
“…and a swelling rage.” ~White Blank Page, Mumford and Sons Everywhere you look on the Internet, there are lists like this. What not to say, do, or otherwise think about if you are a fertile mama and you are around people whose wombs are dry as a desert. Just to add to the fray,…
Of all the subjects I intend to blog about, this one is probably the most difficult and emotional one for me. The one I have shed the most tears over. The one I have nearly lost my mind over. There’s nothing tragic about our particular situation, it’s just that I want something that it…
*Warning: this post may contain triggers for self-harm and material about depression which may be upsetting. Please stay safe and steer clear of this post if you have these triggers.* January 31: “How do you see and define yourself? “I see a broken woman with tons of health problems. I see a woman who…
