Getting Closer To Myself

I’ve had a lot of time over the past days and weeks to reflect on COVID-19 and my experiences as a chronically ill person. To say I’ve bee...

It’s been a while. Mainly because my health hasn’t been the center of everything. It’s so easy to write when things aren’t going well. It’...

I’ve felt this for a long time, but I’m finally writing it down, because I think it’s good advice for newly diagnosed patients, and I wish...

As of late, I haven’t been blogging. It’s not so much that I haven’t had things to say as much as it has been a struggle about whether or ...

When I was diagnosed with lupus and RA 12 years ago, I thought my life was over. I was in my first year of graduate school. Professors and...

For the past five years, I have been on a combination of medications that has worked, been the most consistent, and lasted for the longest...

And it was the best day ever!!!

I know I’ve been noticeably absent from my blog in 2018 and I apologize for that. As always, life seems to get in the way. 2018 was a ...

A routine annual Pap smear turned into a colposcopy, which turned into a laser conization, which taken together has become one of the most u...

Valentine’s Day 2018 will be a Valentine’s Day that I will always remember. For those of you who have been reading this blog for awhile...

On this day, 10 years ago, I started this blog.  I was just finishing my first year of graduate school, and after eight months of crazy sym...

Last June, I went to the worst rheumatologist appointment ever (Read: The Storm After Years Of Calm).  And I thought, now that I have a new ...

In my last post, I shared about my foot surgery and said that there were several other things that had happened, which I had not had a chanc...

It has been awhile, like four months, which is way too long.  I’ve been computer-less, and still am, but there is so much to share.  Some of...

2017 has been full of ups and downs, some of which I’ve shared here and some of which I haven’t.  While I didn’t write often in 2017, I per...