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Not Forgotten...just healed!
New diagnosis now includes Meniere’s and MAV. Back and forth we go on this one, right? Here’s the scoop: Late in December, my sister reported to me that one of her dearest friends used to suffer...
Huh?
I'd walked the dog, fed my daughter, who is home sick from school...got in my Jeep, and backed down my long driveway. At the end of my driveway, I always stop to put on my seatbelt, then revers...
Time-Out
...and when the day grows too heavy and you've forgotten where you've laid your grace, Before hurting someone's feelings - Put yourself in time out. Please - no pity notes. It's part of the pac...
Dance With Me
The day has a dance card filled with my signatures, which it must have collected while I was under the influence of salt and stress. So...I'm going to pretend it's a young Harry Belafonte, and d...
Really? That's it??
As you can imagine, there are many people in my life, who are armchair doctors. In fact, I've received so much unsolicited advice, I could easily write a 1000 page book. Yes - I know it's meant...
A Most Excellent Question
If you can't whine in your own writings, where can you? mcbee I work pretty hard at not whining, but this doesn't mean that I don't have a designated safe-place to do so. In addition, I be...
Weather People
Those people who stand before maps, pointing here and there, describing in phrases carefully learned in meteorology how 'this huge front is moving slowly, so by the time it reaches us, we'll be ...
Perspective
It occurred to me that it might be important to share that I can be a huge whiner. I recognized that in myself a few weeks ago (before the big garden-working day), and decided that I did not wan...
Define Healing
I'm at the checkout with my newly prescribed meds for my nausea. I want little more than to get in my car, drive my happy butt home, and go to bed. The woman there decides that while I'm writ...
Spirals and Curls in Nature
I don't claim to be much of a photographer, but one of the first things I do in the morning is walk around our property, and take shots of things that catch my eye. Things I consider beautiful. ...
Battle of Mobile Bay
Sing it with me: The GP sent me to the Neuro, The Neuro sent me to the Oto(laryngologist), The Oto sent me to the Audio, And I'm still dizzy as a top! Long story short, Oto misread Audio's rep...
TURN TURN TURN
Let me tell you how things have worked for me since (dun-dun-duuuuuuuuh) The Big Attack! First, I waited a week as this wasn't my first round with vertigo. baha! When I realized I wasn't only N...
Irreverent Humor
If you haven't caught it, I am a private patient advocate. Not only do I take care of the daily tasks of bathing, giving meds, and other necessities, but I fight with insurance companies, insure...
Vagina
If they can't touch it, see it, or explain your symptoms, and you just happen to have a vagina - chances are the very first diagnosis you can expect is 'anxiety disorder', 'early menopause', or '...
The Reason for Being
There's a purpose for this blog. As a matter of fact, I had my opening all prepared. I was ready to go -ask anyone! And yet, here I sit with my mental wheels spinning in gray matter. It's all...
Book Description
Too young to sit on some porch and whine about chronic illness, I have decided to use humor, purposely look for joy, and create peace as a means of coping.
My hope is that this might become a source of encouragement for others.
