The first thing I saw yesterday morning was the message that you died. I crumpled to the floor, weeping that I never told you how much I love you. I…
Honestly, we always meant to remodel the house. We bought property in the neighborhood we wanted to live in, and the house was in rough enough shape that we could…
I’m working again, sort of. My full-time job of pain management has been successful enough that I am able to type for about and hour and a half a day,…
If I was hoping for some kind of vacation – even temporary – from pain after surgery, my nerves had other ideas. Just a few weeks after coming home from the…
And so, it is gone. From the moment I woke up in the recovery room, I knew the procedure had improved my life. And with the giddy rush of Dilaudid making the absence of…
From my bed I hear the sounds of our usual family chaos. My daughter gallops across the living room floor, shaking the ceiling above me. There are downsides to a basement…
The last time I was on any kind of medication to treat my depression was before I got pregnant with the baby who is now a junior in high school. It’s not…
Last week, my five-year-old exclaimed that Donald Trump was the worst president of her entire life. She also had a few other choice words and I was a little caught off…
It was hard not to let myself get carried away with pride when my Physical Therapist gushed over the progress I’ve been making. She noticed that my legs weren’t shaking in…
It has been a month since the confirmation that my sciatica is actually caused by a nerve sheath tumor. It’ll be another three weeks until I have an MRI to see if there…