Oh, baby. Talk to me dirty about your CD57 cell count. Tell me all about your parasites, I find them SO sexy. Wait, wait, I want to hear all about your coffee enema and how you laid in bed all Sunday afternoon and couldn’t even bear the sound of your air filter because the whirl …
Needles. A lot of them. All going into places I had never had needles. My head. My ears. My legs, my hands, my feet. What was I doing? I was getting down and dirty with feeling better, that’s what I was doing, and I had turned my attention to acupuncture, the ancient Chinese art of …
I was recently catching up with my dear friend who is in remission from Ulcerative Colitis, and while we were bonding over our chronic illnesses, she asked if I had written anything about canceling. “I’ve touched on it,” I told her, but I had not really gotten into the dark corners of this horribly difficult …
Animals are incredible. Not only can they offer warmth and comfort, they are just the darndest things. They have their own little quirks and personalities. They give unconditional love. I never used to understand my friends who had animals– the undeniable connection they had with their furry friends. But it wasn’t until I got my …
I remember when I believed I had Fibromyalgia. I was dealing with a level of fatigue I didn’t understand, and my boyfriends over the years had a hard time understanding it, as well. One particular boyfriend even went so far as to make me feel like I should get a hearing test because I was …
I remember signing up for my very first hot yoga class about ten years ago, having no idea what I was getting myself into. I gingerly arrived at the studio with my friend, who was also trying out her first class. We sat on our towels the wrong way, facing the front of the room, …
There comes a time when dealing with chronic illness where you might lose yourself a little. Whether it is because you feel like a shell of who you once were, or because, all of a sudden, the only things you can focus on are healing, it is essential to remember that your illness is not …
