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When crap hits the fan
I’ll be honest that I have been procrastinating writing a post for today. I’ve not felt well for the last 2 weeks. And then the last 30 hours happened. I was just about to write my post when my daughter yelled “mom the sink is leaking!” So instead you get pictures of minor catastrophies that…
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When It’s Good
*As a note: I wrote this last year (I wrote a whole bunch of posts within the first several months of the blog and have been posting them interspersed with stuff I write for the current moment). I am really glad that I did. If I hadn’t, I probably wouldn’t believe that such a state…
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Fixing a pinched nerve for migraine relief
I have not seen as good, immediate, and long lasting results from fixing my posture as I have from keto. I have seen results they have just taken longer, and I’m not sure how long they will last without continued treatment due to my extreme hypermobility. The treatment started out with a sarapin injection in…
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Advocacy
This is a short post of gratitude. There have been times in my life when I have not been capable of advocating for myself. When I was first diagnosed with depression, it was because my parents recognized something was wrong and brought it to the attention of my pediatrician. As a teenager, they drove me…
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How I’m Doing with Migraine Treatment Keto Update.
Today is day 108 of keto, and I’m feeling a lot better. I’m not cured, but functioning at significantly higher levels. After I got over the keto flu (which, for me, only lasted a few days and felt like a minor PMDD day (I told the Dr.that and he said you must have really bad…
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Overdoing It
I have been dealing with some chronic pain in my scapula/spine/rib area. There was an initial injury (of the most benign sort, which is really irritating that it has caused so much pain since then) and there is a spot that has just kept hurting for the year and a half since that inciting incident.…
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The Power of “And”
One thing that I have tried to implement in the last five or six years is replacing “but” with “and”. Obviously, it doesn’t work in every instance, but in the instances that it does, I have found it to be quite powerful. Let me provide some examples: I’m so tired but I really want to…
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Intrusive Thought of the Day
Fun story (not really): Last night, as I was getting ready for bed, I was mentally going over my calendar and plans for the upcoming few days. One of these plans includes an outing with one of my niblings (I love this word). My oh-so-helpful brain decided to surprise me with a vivid vision of…
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New Doctor, New Test
My first appointment at the migraine clinic was a little surreal. The doctor started out asking about me. He wanted to know what I liked and what I didn’t like. He wanted to know about my family. He wanted to know what made me tick and what my life goals were. After that he started…
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OCD
Depression was my main focus for a long time. I was on antidepressants, went to therapy for depression, and experienced seasonal depression on top of normal depression. Anxiety was a comorbidity that tagged along. For the most part, what will help depression will also help anxiety. In my mid-20s, I again found myself struggling with…
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