Category: wellness

(Acknowledging the end of Mental Health Awareness Month) What’s wrong with me tonight?I’m lying here in my bed, trying to sleep,And a deep feeling of hopelessnessIs trying to surround me. What is it?The parasites-I can sense them swarming inslow movements through my being!They are attempting to attack me, my space,And my intellect.What is it?Lord, I…

I had a wonderfully calm birthday on the 23rd. At first, I wondered if it would be quiet because the kids were planning something. However, I canceled the gathering when I started feeling ill. I went out for breakfast in the morning, and later that afternoon, I had some long-awaited vegan food. The restaurant didn’t…

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…

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…