Teenagers: Living With Undiagnosed Endometriosis
For 29 years, I have lived with endometriosis. Nineteen years ago this month, I was diagnosed with endometriosis via an outpatient surgery called laparoscopy. (By the way, this type of outpatient...
View ArticleMajor Migraine Month
The best way to sum up the past month health-wise is: My head hurt every day. The migraine pain (over the past month) has ranged from mild at times to very severe at other times but it has never left...
View ArticleToday Is Awareness Day… May 12, 2011
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could fill billboards with the messages we hold dear? While I had many ideas for what I was going to write about today, several circumstances that were out of my control...
View ArticleMy Sun Appreciation
I know that the preceding post was pretty dreary. When the sun finally made an appearance this weekend, it was wonderful! We even managed to get in a short bike ride on Sunday. This was nice since the...
View ArticleCanary In Troubled Water: MCS Adventure
Click here for photo license. This past weekend, we had relatives in from out of state and one of the first activities we decided to do was take a ride across a lake in a paddlewheel boat. Given the...
View ArticleChronic Camp ‘Carnival’
Behold: ‘Home Sweet Home’ (from July 18 – 22). I kid you not! My mother’s comment when we had returned safely from our camping trip was, “how did you do it”?! What a loaded question! (She knows that I...
View ArticleChronic Camping Continued: The Castle
Boldt Castle on Heart Island: Alexandria Bay, NY It isn’t very often that I travel; it is challenging to do so because of the various chronic medical conditions I have. So, the camping trip we took in...
View ArticleChronic Travel: Planning And Implementation
I have written previously about a camping trip we recently took (see here and here). While I had concerns for how my body would handle such a trip (particularly how I would fare regarding fibromyalgia...
View ArticleEndometriosis And Sunscreen
Spring is in the air! It’s that time of year (in my part of the world, anyway) where people tend to spend more time outdoors. Since it’s Endometriosis Awareness Month, I wanted to highlight some new...
View ArticleGetting Back On Track!
The five year anniversary of me starting a blog will be in about three weeks. In all of that time, the longest I’ve gone without writing has been recently. It definitely hasn’t been easy for me to step...
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