Aside from a jacked up thyroid gland and a stomach that was sometimes a bit disagreeable, I was a fairly healthy individual before my desmoid tumor diagnosis in 2012. I had no clue what it was like to be seriously ill, nor how to deal the physical, emotional, and financial fallout that inevitably follows. That… Read More The ABC’s Of Sick Advice
One day, lamenting the fact that my hands were in so much pain I could not finish coloring a page in my snazzy new adult coloring book, I was met with this unsolicited advice: My hands hurt, too, but I just take my time and if it takes me a week to color a page… Read More I Need To Tell You
In middle school, the only thing that dominated my life more than acne was Wham!’s smash album, Make It Big. The seemingly ceaseless wailing of the saxophone solo on their hit ballad Careless Whisper transports me back in time. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, can mourn better than a lovesick teenager. Of all the lovesick… Read More A Wallow Will Do You Good
Had you read the “Who What When Where & Why” page of this blog or if you are one of the approximately half dozen friends that I guilted into reading this piece then you know that I was recently sick for a decent chunk of time. Were you the type of person that finds hot… Read More Humanity Might Want to Consider a Social Media Detox
