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Own Your Own Happiness
Your happiness relies on you. You rely on your happiness. It’s a reciprocal relationship, one where you feed into your happiness bank, and it pays you in dividends. When you are feeling less stressed,...
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Third Verse, Same As the First!
Although the title up there is jaunty-sounding, the news is not. Please remember that I am a human being, who has been trying to do an awful lot of things the last few weeks, not the least of which has...
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Opening Up Yet Again
I am having another surgery. We’re not sure exactly when, but it will be before the week is out; my best guess right now is either Tuesday or Wednesday. The surgery will be very similar, but not...
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Surgery Tomorrow
12 days after being admitted through the ER and the decision has finally been made: I am having surgery tomorrow. In a way I guess it’s a good thing we waited, as I have a very clear understanding that...
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Ten Hard Lessons I’ve Learned About Being Chronically Ill
I’ve been struggling with chronic pain and illness for over six years now. In that time, I’ve come to some difficult situations and choices, and for the most part had no source material to turn to....
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Finding New Depths
It’s been a while, hasn’t it? It’s my fault, of course. Not just because I am the blogger in the equation, but because the current health struggle is complex. Probably the most complex since the...
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Darling, Can’t You Hear Me SOS?
It’s now been officially a week since I have been admitted to Johns Hopkins. Although Rave and I both had tingly spidey-senses that a hospital trip was close at hand, we had no idea what we were in...
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Lost in Time…and Space…and Meaning.
Sometimes it feels like I’ve only been in the hospital for 3 very long, very blurry days. Other times I feel like I’ve been here for six months already. I know all the different nurses and techs by...
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Hanging In There
If you’ve ever had any kind of conversation with me, regardless of the medium, there is an incredibly high probability that when you’ve asked some version of “How are you doing?” I have responded with...
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Close Call
Everyone in the room – the doctors, nurses, Rave, and even me – all thought the same thing, but no one wanted to say it. For me, it became tangible when I realized I was having visual hallucinations...
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