When I went into the hospital in September for what I knew was a panic attack and high blood pressure caused but I said panic attack, I thought the doctors wouldn’t find much else wrong with me. It turns out I was wrong. The comprehensive blood work they ran showed I was anemic. How am
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As I write this, there are 34 minutes left in 2025. I will not be sad to see 2025 go. This year has been the most difficult year of my life without exaggeration. After going through all I’ve been through since June 2022 I want to make this year really count I want 2026 to
Thriving has been a struggle, as of late, but I am NEVER giving up on myself, so I want to share further changes I have made to my health and wellness journey to thrive once again. Some of these are from the post I wrote December 3, 2024. I hope what follows is helpful. 1.
I was born with spastic quadriplegia cerebral palsy. My kind of cerebral palsy means I have an overabundance of muscle tone in my body. The most common symptom I deal with is tight muscles, which can, and often does, lead to muscle spasms. My general practitioner prescribes muscle relaxers for me to take as needed.
Having cerebral palsy and doing my best to thrive with it can be difficult. Thriving with my condition is a worthwhile endeavor though. One I know how blessed I am to have the opportunity to. Thriving is what I am supposed to be doing. What do I mean by that? I would not be here
2024 was the one of the most difficult, busy, and chaotic years of my life in a lot of ways. It was also the best in some ways. Both are true statements. The biggest lesson I keep needing to learn? Both light and dark exist in life and most of the time they coexist. Some
A conversation early this morning with one of my chosen brothers inspired this blog post. He always pushes me to think, do better, and be better. He wants me to live up to my purpose and potential and will not accept any effort less than my best to do just that. I told him that
Turns out to be healthy and well the basics still work best for me Who knew? I did. I stopped taking care of me when life went sideways again early in 2024. I was taking care of everything and everybody but me. What do I mean by the basics? Below are my health and wellness
For the last two weeks or so, I have not felt like myself. My last blog post was an expression of that. This one is as well. I woke up the other day feeling the need to get my life together. Now, to be clear, my life is not what most people would call not