by Blog Feed | Jul 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
“You wanna be on topppp…” The “America’s Next Top Model” theme song played on the TV for the fifth time that summer day in 2009 as I continued to binge a rerun season on the CW. “Yes, Tyra, I do,” I screamed in my head. I used to be obsessed with that show. I loved...
by Blog Feed | Jul 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
I recently had a chat with a fellow fibro-fighter about what weather is best for people with fibromyalgia that really stuck with me. This conversation started because, while I live in the Bay Area of northern California now, I used to live in Orange County, in...
by Blog Feed | Jul 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
If you do a quick search of the current news, you’re going to see a very interesting set of results when it comes to “doctor shopping.” You’ll see a mess about vaccines in California and an attempt to prevent anti-vaxers from finding more sympathetic doctors to...
by Blog Feed | Jul 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
When Dee Chan feels suicidal, it completely overtakes her. She says it’s like standing on a beach, watching a tsunami wave coming straight for her. She can’t outrun it. She can’t swim through it. She can’t get away from it. So she just stands there, helpless, waiting...
by Blog Feed | Jul 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
“It’s OK to cry when there is too much in your mind. The clouds cry too when things get too heavy.” — Amina Mehmood I saw this quote recently, and it made me stop and think about how we often try so hard to look like we have it all together. We may pretend like our...
