Babblings

I’ve made no secret of this being a ridiculously challenging year for Steve and me health wise. I do tend to overshare when I write.  We have faced vision loss, major surgery, challenges to our independence, both lifelong and life altering health challenges. Right now, though, I’m looking at a photo of my sleeping grandchildren,…

Today’s beauty surprise: an angry rash on my shins on top of the weight gain that seems to have settled into my lower thighs.  When I was a teenager, I was always too fat. In my 20s, I wasn’t blonde. In my 30s, I was back to feeling fat. At 40, I remember so little…

I’m sick these days. Recently diagnosed with Adrenal Insufficiency (as a result of the pituitary tumor and its subsequent hemorrhaging and removal), I feel like my health is going in the wrong direction. I’m tired (bone-tired), shaky inside and out, unable to focus for very long, and generally just feeling yucky, some days way worse…

Since August, I’ve spent a good amount of time in doctors’ offices. To my neurosurgeon, and even to my ENT, I’m nothing special, just another brain tumor patient, a successful outcome, perhaps a notch in their belt. Whatever the case may be, they each did their job successfully, no doubt because they have had some…

On those teenage days when I would come home after a long school day and find my mother laying down on her bed – finally able to rest after spending a day working at the high school library, already quite ill and likely truly exhausted – I would lay next to her and hold her…