ailments

Somehow I got the 'lucky' card in the health department. Somewhere in my genes I ended up with the crapshoot of everything. I do kno...

You get one ailment, and it always seems to bring along its 'friends'. A few examples are cancer with chemotherapy causes digestive ...

Life as an unhealthy person is not all peaches and roses.... Wednesday I wrote about Claire the amazing woman with CF who is full of energy...

I have too many ailments. Combined they interact and cause all kinds of problems. Normal people can have knee problems and then surgery to f...

I have many friends who, after cancer, get back to their old lives for the most part. I'm not talking about that 'new normal' bu...

This always amazes me. People get diagnosed with a medical ailment and then don't use the good medical resources available. If you need ...

I get asked often, am I getting better? Have any of my doctors found a miraculous treatment for me? The answers are and always will be a big...

I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't spend time thinking because it can cause all sorts of problems. I know. I should stop spending so much...

Normal people get exposed to something and they get told 'call us if there are any changes in whatever it is that is bothering them'...

So we all get these weird feelings sometimes. Something starts aching, or tingling, or twitching, or pinching, or just not feeling right. We...

I am very grumpy these days. I think part of it is juggling my medical issues. But its also that I have been dealing with a lot of pain, and...

I read an article over at Rheumatoid Arthritis.Ne t on the cost of exertion . What is the cost of exertion you ask? Basically, if you run a ...

Yesterday I posted a list of a holiday to dos : Be present, don't buy presents Wrap someone in a hug, instead of wrapping gifts Send lov...

Healthy people have a holiday celebration and they do things like: cook, socialize, eat, socialize, eat more, socialize more, eat more, soci...

I saw my rheumatologist yesterday and she was impressed with how much is going on with me medically these days and none of it was related to...

By the end of yesterday, I was beyond stressed. Let's see why was I stressed: I have been feeling like crap because of the bump on my he...

Adding to yesterday's post on the evil voice, I can go weeks, even a few months, and feel that I am doing okay and I am in status quo of...

I used to be a morning person. Really. In junior high and high school I would even get up and go ice skating for an hour or two before schoo...

I am just fine. I am damn happy. And perky! And feeling no pain. No that's a big fat lie. I have a lot of pain. I ran out of steam yeste...

So the good news is that heart disease is becoming less of a problem for many Americans and the death rate is down. But the bad news is that...