by Sara | Jan 25, 2019 | Book News & Recs, Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Living With Health Challenges, Loving Someone With Health Challenges, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Toxic Mold Poisoning, Uncategorized
I planned to sleep in this morning. You know, rest before the fun starts. It didn’t work. I was up before my sister, unable to lay still. I kept closing my eyes, hoping that if I pretended to be asleep I might actually fall back asleep. Yeah, no. It was a...
by Sara | Jul 23, 2018 | Book News & Recs, Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Living With Health Challenges, Loving Someone With Health Challenges, Lyme Disease, Mental Struggles, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Toxic Mold Poisoning, Uncategorized
Three years ago today, I got sick. I got sick, and I never got better. I was newly fourteen and looking forward to learning how to drive, to picking summer berries, and learning to salmon fish. But instead, I found myself sick, and not getting better. But I’d...
by Sara | Oct 10, 2017 | Living With Health Challenges, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Toxic Mold Poisoning
Emily over at Called To Watch posted a great article about diagnosis and how to handle it when you aren’t the person who is sick- but a loved one or someone that you know is. It inspired me to share a little bit about my own diagnoses… I generalize my...
by Sara | Aug 4, 2017 | Lyme Disease, Toxic Mold Poisoning
When you find out someone you know has recently been diagnosed with the same illness that you have, your immediate reaction is to want to help, right? Right! Of course we do! The thing is, there are a lot of dangers that can come from our help. On the one hand, we may...
by Sara | Jun 24, 2017 | Living With Health Challenges, Lyme Disease, Mental Struggles, Uncategorized
Hello there. Last you saw me was sometime in the middle of May, and now it’s approaching the end of June. Well… first let me say, I’m very sorry. Unfortunately, life happens. Or, more accurately for my current situation, illness happens. 🙂 However,...
by Sara | May 11, 2017 | Book News & Recs, Lyme Disease, Mental Struggles
One of the worst things about the mental Lyme irrationalness (is that a word?), is that you come to a point where you can no longer trust what you think, or feel. You cannot trust your mind or emotions. It’s so hard because that’s how you analyze...
