Like most people this week, I am headed “home” for Thanksgiving. However, I am not traveling to my mama’s house for turkey and stuffing. Instead, I am headed to Mayo Clinic to get their insight on the best option for the long-term management of my […]
As we all know, the universe giveth and the universe taketh away. After a whole lot of take this past year, the universe decided to cut me a break and it dropped an amazing person into the middle of my life. I have met a […]
I really hate the term heart failure. Nothing makes my little Type A personality heart hurt worse than having the word failure attached to it. Out of the approximately 79 diagnoses listed in my medical chart, seeing that one really breaks my heart. Last week […]
Over the course of my life there have been two main things my family and I have used to get thru the stress of my medical issues: humor and gratitude. Recognition and appreciation of all the good things in life, both big and small, makes […]
By most people’s standards, I had a pretty crappy summer. Just to recap all the chaos, I spent ten days in the hospital, I got diagnosed with a new medical condition, I have been on medical leave from my job for almost three months and […]
For as long as I can remember my mom has told me that she believes the universe has always provided me what I need when I needed it. Everything from a medication being approved just in time to the random kindness of a stranger, I […]
Well, I survived the liver stabbing procedure! In reality, the actual procedure was the calmest part of my day… Let me set up the scene for you… Despite being clad in the fanciest, most magical unicorn leggings ever to be sold on Amazon, I was […]
If you are facing a big scary medical test, which you are already very nervous about and involves a very large needle, don’t be the idiot who does a Google image search for “how big is a liver biopsy needle” because you will just freak […]
I keep using the phrase “how the mighty have fallen” to joke about the drastic change my life has taken in the past month. “How the mighty have fallen…last month I was drinking Diet Cokes with abandon, today I am peeing into a vacuum.” “How […]
“You sure don’t look sick.” “You would never know that something was wrong with you just by looking at you.” “Well, at least you look healthy.” If I had a nickel for every time I have heard one of the above sentences, I would probably […]