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Struggling today with a familiar feeling of anger over fighting for what I need to take care of me. Wanting to translate others’ lack of support for me as me being unworthy to receive it. As a person with low self-esteem, it can be a struggle to ask for the care I need. Being sick…
I have what is termed chronic sinusitis. A have a whopping good amount of allergies. When that got added to an undiagnosed deviated septum which only got operated on not two years ago, I suffered numerous sinus infections in a year. When it’s really bad, it feels like I have dirt packed into my forehead….
I went for two more appointments to follow up on my SI joint pain. That even though I am at a one mostly with the pain level, I had committed to seeing myself through to be pain free. And this is what happened. I found out I was not a candidate for the traditional radio…
Fiona was inconsolable with her self-pity after her recent round of shots. I thought she needed them for Pre-K but it seems we got them a year earlier than necessary. They’re done now. And those band-aids that I couldn’t remove from her thighs for days were proof that she wasn’t brave. Don’t even suggest it…
This past Friday, I willingly subjected myself to my obligatory “You just turned 50!” booby prize procedure and had my very first colonoscopy. Yes I know, am I really 50 already ? I made sure I dyed my daggone roots before I went so they would feel it necessary to card me and make sure…
(Be forewarned, there’s a doctor visit with a slightly graphic female parts description coming up .) At Fiona’s recent Doctor’s office check-up, the doctor’s last bodily inventory check was her diddle, or as I call it, her twinkle. And then he checked it again. And he explains to me that her inner lips around her…
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