Doreen's Health And Wellness Journey and Other Things

Category: health

  • Confused and Frustrated!

    It has been a couple of weeks since I had my Colonoscopy, and I am glad things are okay. The intense pain I felt afterward is what bothered me most about my procedure. I’m no doctor, but I believe my sciatic nerve was aggravated during the procedure. I am not complaining; just stating the probability…

  • Getting Tested: Glaucoma

  • Noways Tired

    I was listening to James Cleveland (Gospel Singer) sing, a favorite of mine. ” I don’t feel noways tired, I come too far from where I started from. Nobody told me the road would be easy, but I don’t believe he brought me this far to leave me”. Amen!

  • Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

    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…

  • My RA

    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…

  • The Big Dirty Yellow Bus

    Even though life was sometimes challenging, my life wasn’t anydifferent from some of the other kids I went to school with.Some of them lost their mommas, just like I did. Some were forced to live with relatives they didn’t know,just like my sisters and me. Some of them got sexually molested byuncles, cousins, or overly…

  • 14-Day Challenge

    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.…

  • Who me Suicide?!

    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…

  • Bummed Out!

    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…

  • Heart Disease and Me Part three

    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…