A couple days ago, I wrote a little background on my love life as an ostomate here. It was the first time I talked about this part of my life in any detail on my blog, and to anyone other than incredibly close girlfriends. It felt so great to open up and made me realize […]
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When You Can’t, Someone Else Can
I think everyone of us has parts of our lives that we don’t feel comfortable sharing with the outside world. This could just be temporary or something that may never change. Either way, I’ve noticed some of the things that come easily for me to talk about are really painful, if not impossible, for some […]
NYE 2013
When I envisioned New Years Eve 2013 a few weeks ago, I thought I would be upstate celebrating. Instead, I can’t wait for this holiday season to be over with because the overall cheeriness of this time of year makes it even more difficult for my family and me to mourn the recent loss of […]
Day 10: Should People Post About Their (or their loved ones) Health on FB?
The prompt for day 10 is about whether or not we believe people should talk about their health and the health of their loved ones on facebook. Before I started writing two months ago, I always thought that it was absurd to post things about your health for the entire world to see. After all, […]
Tackling Physical & Emotional Challenges; Pick One
When I was first diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, I had so many physical challenges to deal with that I couldn’t even think about how it was affecting me emotionally. For the first four years, I barely talked about how I was feeling psychologically. I talked about the pain I was in. I talked about how […]