Category: health

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Colorectal cancer is an abnormal growth in the colon or rectum that can turn into cancer. Colorectal cancer is recognized in March to inform folks how important it is to get screened. (I got this information from the internet) I didn’t know March was Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month until…

I should have paid more attention to You drifting.When I woke up one day, You were violently ASSAULTING ME!What the HELL?You AMBUSHED me! There were various things I tried to stop the ASSAULTS.Because it was clear You had turned against ME!WHY?!What did I do to warrant such ABUSE?!I thought You were really into ME?!Please tell…

I decided to take the Metamucil challenge when I read about it in my email. Even though I had an unused container of Metamucil in my cabinet, I was curious if the challenge would help me.What interested me was the claim that Metamucil gets rid of what’s weighing you down, so you can feel lighter.…

I was nineteen when I sliced my wrist in the bathroom of my apartment. I am not sure if I was trying to commit Suicide; I only remember being in so much pain I didn’t know what else to do.I never told anyone I believed that after giving birth to my son; my life was…

At the beginning of the week, I go over my finances and household chores for the week. Today I was to clean the bathroom and straighten the living room.Around 1:00 pm, I fixed the Grands some hotdogs and french fries. Ihad a chicken burger without bread, baked sweet potato fries, and a salad.I was feeling…

A few weeks after that doctor’s appointment in March 2016, I started feeling strange. I had an uncomfortable feeling in my chest that lasted most of the morning. My body was also aching, so I didn’t know if it was my RA. Since I started feeling tight and gassy after lunch, I didn’t know if…

Because this is February’s Heart Health Awareness Month, I will post more on my heart disease and me. A month after my appointment with my cardiologist, I had some minor chest pains. I wasn’t sure if it was my heart or my Rheumatoid Arthritis. Before the heart disease diagnosis, I assumed the pain I had…

Last week, I felt a little bloated. I was constipated. I could go to the bathroom, but it wasn’t easy. After several days, I went to the pharmacy and purchased a laxative. Early the following morning, the laxative began to work. It was a tremendous relief. I searched the internet to see what it said…