Category: health-and-wellness

When will I accept that I am not who I was once?!

The other morning, I cooked myself a small pot of grits. Usually, when I fix grits, I will use dairy butter to season them. I have been putting dairy butter on my grits, forever! However, I hesitated to put dairy butter on my grits this morning.Having heart disease and being diabetic, I know dairy butter…

Wishing Things Could Have Been Different for Her.There is a lot about my mother’s illnesses I don’t know, but I heard she was born with medical issues. She was a preteen when she was diagnosed with Tuberculosis(an infectious disease).My mother would spend time in a children’s sanatorium as a teenager. The children’s sanatorium was where…

I am better today. While it is raining, it is still a fabulous day because I am here! I feel like I climbed up from the abyss into unpolluted air. I pray all will be calm this week.

I woke early, around four Friday morning, with right-side chest pains. I got up, took 3 Tylenol, put a pain patch on, and took my Prednisone and Symbicort inhaler. I was 75% sure I wasn’t having a heart attack, because the Pain was on the right side, but I am no doctor. I didn’t begin…

As a child, I wasn’t too fond of getting needles; I remember cringing and pulling back as the doctors gave me my annual vaccines. So as an adult, when I had to inject myself with Enbrel, I wouldn’t say I liked it, and I was not too fond of the methotrexate needles either. I hated…