This Brutiful Life

The last few months have been extremely difficult on all levels: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. This last week has been even tougher. Everything has been 50 times harder than it needs to be, and I am working through my feelings. (credit: unknown) It is important in these times to feel the feelings instead of thinking… Read more

I had 3 emotional experiences in a three-day span at the end of last week that were reminders of the many Beautiful parts of my life. As I have previously stated, my health situation has given me the opportunity to widen the lens through which I see the world, and I have taken full advantage… Read more

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