I
contemplated not doing a year in review post this year, considering the way the
year ended. I really don’t want to dwell
on the past, and what has happened recently has been incredibly painful. But I also want to see exactly where I’ve
been in 2015, in the hope of figuring out where I want to go in 2016.
2015 was the
first full year without my dad, and I really opened up around the details
surrounding his death:
I had some
highs and lows health-wise, including getting a cortisone shot in my hip that
changed my life for the better, and struggling with medication and insurance
woes:
My
relationship took a positive turn (we got our first place together), and then a
very negative one (we broke up):
I got to
travel a lot, gave an Ignite Talk at Stanford Medicine X, and did a lot of
advocacy work, which were some of my happiest and proudest moments this year:
And I
struggled with starting my career and finding the way back to myself:
It’s crazy
the difference a year makes. At the
beginning of 2015, my boyfriend and I got our first place together. 2015 came to an end with a breakup with my
boyfriend of three and a half years, and a move back to Michigan to be closer
to my support system, and hopefully start a new life.
Of course,
these aren’t all of my posts from 2015, but these are the ones I felt were
worth highlighting. You can review the
year on my blog if you are interested in other posts that were not included in
this review post.
And, as I
always do, I am sharing with you a list of the books that I read in 2015:
1.
“The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up” by Marie
Kondo (NF)
2.
“Fabulupus” by Jodie Nimigon-Young and Jessica
Kundapur (NF)*
3.
“Common Fire” by Laurent A. Parks Daloz, Cheryl H.
Keen, James P. Keen, and Sharon Daloz Parks (NF)^
4.
“Tampa” by Alissa Nutting (F)
5.
“Selena’s Secret” by Maria Celeste Arraras (NF)
6.
“On A Farther Shore” by William Souder (NF)^
7.
“The Vanishers” by Heidi Julavitz (F)
8.
“Sick Idiot” by Ashley Boynes-Shuck (NF)*
9.
“The Writing on the Wall” by Regina Holliday (NF)*
10. “To Selena,
With Love” by Chris Perez (NF)
11.
“The Perfect Letter” by Chris Harrison (F)
12. “300
Sandwiches” by Stephanie Smith (NF)
13. “League
of Mortals” by Duncan Cross (F)*
14. “United
Breaks Guitars” by Dave Carroll (NF)
15.
“Grey” by E.L. James (F)
16. “Afraid
of the Dark” by Tom Henderson (NF)
17.
“14th Deadly Sin” by James Patterson
(F)
18. “Suffering
The Silence” by Allie Cashel (NF)*
19. “Being
Mortal” by Atul Gawande (NF)*
20. “On grief and Grieving” by Elisabeth
Kubler-Ross and David Kessler (NF)
21. “The Day
the World Came to Town” by Jim DeFede (NF)
22. “Girl In Glass” by Deana Fei (NF)*
23. “Wide
Awake And Dreaming” by Julie Flygare (NF)*
24. “NYPD Red
3” by James Patterson and Marshall Karp (F)
25. “Why I
Wore Lipstick To My Mastectomy” by Geralyn Lucas (NF)*
26. “The
Murder House” by James Patterson and (F)
27. “The
Magic Strings of Frankie Presto” by Mitch Albom (F)
28. “Still
Alice” by Lisa Genova (F)*
29. “Inside
the O’Briens” by Lisa Genova (F)*
(NF) – Non-fiction
* Books specifically of interest to chronically ill readers
^ Academic books/books for school/my research
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