In the summer of 2019, I was gearing up for my book launch the following January. After years of trying to get my memoir, When Force Meets Fate, published by a big publisher, I decided to take a hybrid approach and publish the book through Inkshares, an indie publisher. After selling more than 750 pre-orders, …
In the more than a decade that I’ve been sick, I’ve experienced just about every level of my illness. At various times, I’ve been near death. At other times, I’ve been well enough to function almost like a healthy person. I’ve also been stuck in the middle, as I am now, wondering what will happen …
There was a brief moment, as I lay in the back of my mom’s van, when it seemed like moving to a new house was going to be easy. Or if not easy, then it seemed like the move might at least be manageable. But soon after, things became increasingly unmanageable. The process of moving …
It all starts with a Lyme bullseye rash. Well, not always. In my case, and many others, Lyme disease began more mysteriously. For me, there was no Lyme bullseye rash or even a detectable tick bite. (The last tick bite I had was ten years before I was diagnosed.) It was almost as if my …
A lot of people ask me about the products and aids that I currently use (or have used in the past) to improve my quality of life. And while I’m sure there are at least a few disability products catalogs out there, I thought I would use this post to cover some of the products …
9 Disability Products and Aids That Have Helped Me Read More »
For years, I’ve been wanting to update my chronic illness and disability website. Partly because I’ve always envied people with websites that have fancy graphics and animations, and partly because, well, you and all the other lovely people who read my blog deserve a more modern experience. Until recently, I thought I could create (and …
There’s nothing quite like ending on a good note, especially when the thing you are ending is, well, sort of a crappy year. This year has undoubtedly been a rough one, mostly thanks to COVID. But, at the same time, it has been one of the best years for my recovery from myalgic encephalomyelitis (chronic …
There was a time when I was really sick, too sick to touch my feet, and I wished I had a device for putting on socks (affiliate link). Until recently, I didn’t even know that such a thing existed. It would have made my life easier and, well, warmer. (If you have a chronic illness …
Several years ago I wrote a blog post about the October Slide. At the time I didn’t know much about it and was sort of educating myself as much as I was trying to start a discussion and raise awareness. Not much has changed since then. I still wonder about this weird phenomenon where people …
Until recently, I hadn’t been in a car for at least five years. The last time, I was so severely sick that a crew of paramedics had to put me on a gurney and wheel me into the back of an ambulance under the cover of darkness because I was so sensitive to light. Then …