So, a few days ago, I posted about choosing to be positive in a negative world. Yesterday, I faced a situation that could have changed that. I had a phone appointment with my respirologist that lasted about an hour, give or take five minutes! Dr. W. is a very thorough and personable doctor. She is …
Chronic Compromises – Choices
We all know the negatives that the coronavirus has brought to our lives. The deaths, loss of jobs and even businesses, and quarantine/isolation have taken their toll on the world. I have had to self-isolate for most of the past year due to my recently diagnosed immune deficiency. Apparently, I have had it all my …
Reblog – How to Keep Moving Forward When Life Wants to Get You Down
Kat’s recounting of dreams quashed and others coming true with hard work is very humbling and inspiring. Chronic illness hits us all hard; however, it is what we make of our lives in spite of it that matters.
Lydia!
The day before Valentine’s day, it was a lung infection and a prescription for an antibiotic I turned out to be allergic to. A week of hives later, there are now four classes of antibiotics I’m allergic to and another I shouldn’t take except in emergencies because of my connective tissue disorder.
It was a month-old flu, that I got in January, that led to that lung infection. Less than a month later, on March 3, I woke up on Saturday morning with what I thought was one of the worst migraines I’d ever had.
Basically, all this leads to me being sick practically all of 2018. Time has flown by, mostly because it has been a fog of illness and new fun symptoms on top of my regular chronic illnesses.
Then, on top of that, after a week of a sinus infection on top of a double ear infection…
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