• Stress and Chronic Complex Illness

    Monday night I participated in a meeting to discuss some issues affecting our community. Because of the seriousness of these issues and my tenacious and overly passionate personality, the whole thing was highly stressful for me. Stress is bad for the body – we know this. But it’s particularly bad for people with chronic complex… Read more

  • Stress & Anxiety

    Stress Medlineplus says “Stress is your body’s reaction to a challenge or demand.” These reactions can come in the form of a physical, emotional or mental issues. Financial challenges, relationship troubles, a car crash, the loss of a job – there’s tons of short term factors that can trigger a stress response. When your body… Read more

  • Never Surrender Your Own Judgement

    I participate in several forums focused on specific health conditions. I initially joined them in the hopes of learning more about some of the conditions I have. What I’ve found is that most of the people participating are in the early stages of some sort of sickness – or at a minimum, they haven’t yet… Read more

  • You’re Beautiful…

    God has been dropping bits of encouragement on my life today – it’s been more of an “in your face” kind of message that the fight is not over yet (FK&C). If you are feeling defeated right now, if your pain is too much to bear, if like me you are feeling fat and ugly… Read more

  • God is still God

    This photo was taken 7 years ago. I was at Stanford Medical Center getting bi-weekly lidocaine infusions. The infusions helped reduce pain – but my body began slowly rejecting it. My last injection ended with me being super loopy and slurring my words. It was a horrible time of life – pre-diagnosis, bed-ridden & using… Read more

  • Under Counting Lyme Disease

    Lymedisease.org article I’ve been diagnosed with multiple tick diseases. The CDC does not include my illnesses in their counts. What do COVID19 and LYME have in common? The government won’t allow proper diagnosis or treatment of either. None of us need be sick. But here we are. It’s time to be angry. It’s time to… Read more