I stumbled across an article from The New Yorker yesterday that got me kind of excited. It was written in 2013 by Meghan O’Rourke about her experience with autoimmune disease... Read More

I first learned about compression socks during my first tour of duty at IPR (or InPatient Rehab for the luckily uninitiated) where I used my first wheelchair because they were... Read More

In my mind, it was the Buddha or some entity much more spiritual and lofty who told me, and you and everyone else, to be like the water. But it... Read More

How about a post that’s not about the disastrous state of my mental health? Maybe just a good old list of random topics about which I feel the need to... Read More

The thing I seem to have forgotten about therapy is how much therapy sucks when you’re just getting started. Suck is normally an impactful enough word for something terribly awful... Read More

I remember a time when everything seemed hunky dory one minute and then life happened and all of the sudden it wasn’t anymore. I was thirty years old. I worked... Read More

As I started writing this post (on my damn phone again…grrr), I got the intense urge to go back through my nearly five years of writing this blog to check... Read More

According to many reliable sources, i.e. mostly rando blogs on the internet, the five most stressful life events are the following: Death of a loved one Divorce Moving Major illness... Read More

And all through my brain, were thoughts most unwelcome that may drive me insane. I in my pajamas worn for 27 days my aide in her scrubs, packed up my... Read More

…And I’m still in the hospital without much energy for writing so I made you this terribly unprofessional video. It’s sure to be something I immediately regret as soon as... Read More