This Brutiful Life

We are starting again at the top of the tentative plan for healing, but we are not starting over. Even though we have had to restart many, many times over the last 20+ years, we have more knowledge each time. Even when we need to backtrack, we always gain more data and information with each… Read more

[Side note: This post would not have been written without my husband’s full support.] For many years, medical providers didn’t believe me about my health situation for a variety of reasons. One of those reasons is because I mostly “look” healthy. The result of having doctors only look at what I was presenting on the… Read more

“What do you have?” I rarely have trouble answering the questions I get from other people, but I do have trouble when I get asked this question. Our medical care system is diagnosis-driven, and our society, as a whole, is diagnosis-obsessed, so I understand why some people ask me this question. In their minds, there… Read more

Our wedding anniversary is this week, and I want to take a moment to celebrate both my husband and our relationship. I met my husband in college. My roommate was dating his roommate, and the two of them were trying to set us up. Our roommates decided to invite the both of us to play… Read more

As usual, we have a lot going on in our neck of the woods. We are moving at a speed that is unsustainable, but it is what it is for right now. The image below accurately represents the last 20+ years of our life, and it made me laugh: Here is the latest update .… Read more

As our country has been celebrating its independence this week, I have been celebrating interdependence in my own life. Interdependence involves a healthy balance of self and others in relationships. [Side note: Interdependence is not the same thing as codependence.] There are a lot of decisions I am needing to make right now concerning my… Read more