Category: health

I had a craving a couple of weeks ago for the chicken bowl meal at Chipotle, usually, I get the Chipotle veggie bowl. On this day, the chicken bowl meal with black beans, fajita veggies, brown rice, cheese, and guacamole was ordered. I know I decided to stop eating meat, but I think I am…

Today is a medically finer day for me, I was dealing with an RA flare last weekend. I put a call into my rheumy. I was impatient and in too much pain, to wait for a callback, so I put myself on 15 mg of prednisone. Since I didn’t receive a call back until the…

Remembering Mary seems strange because she was someone I didn’t know well or long. However, the several times I saw her during my doctor’s appointments, she was courteous and pleasant, greeting me with huge smiles on every visit. She would converse with me as if we were familiar with each other. She never made me…

I didn’t know that coffee could be so dehydrating. I guess I need to go back to drinking one cup a day and drink more water, because it’s starting to show up in my urine.

I Remember I remember now more vividly, with much sorrow, remorse, and pain. My life with you- all those years, the tears and turmoil, the shame! I should have left you many, many years ago. The first time you hit me is when I should have made you go! Your reasons for calling me a…

I still struggle with why I stayed so long. And I still don’t know. There were opportunities where I could have left, but I didn’t What was it? Especially when I no longer loved him. I don’t understand! Someone suggested that I stayed because I was afraid. Yes, I was, but I wasn’t afraid toward…

Domestic Violence Domestic violence is something you don’t want in your life. Domestic violence? Who, me ? ARE YOU CRAZY? Yes, Domestic violence, you! You’re not exempt from it. It happened to me, and I am not crazy. Those were the same thoughts I had about other women until it happened to me. I didn’t…

I asked God for Patience and he gave me situations where patience was necessary, and so I prayed and I prayed and still I pray.

I Found these two books very helpful. Amazon You Don’t Look Sick (Living Well with Invisible Chronic Illness) Joy H. Selak and Steven S. Overman Women and Auto-Immune Disease Robert G. Lahita M.D.,Ph.D

When I looked in the refrigerator this afternoon, I saw several pieces of chicken. My oldest son barbecued chicken on the grill last night. I was a little hungry, so I grabbed a piece. I had almost put the chicken in my mouth when I realized I was trying not to eat meat. To be…