by Sara | Jan 18, 2017 | Gut and Food, Toxic Mold Poisoning
Bloating has been one of the symptoms that I have had from the beginning of mold. Before we knew it was mold that was causing my sickness, my mom and I self-diagnosed me with Leaky Gut Syndrome. Nope, that doesn’t mean food is coming out in wrong ways from...
by Sara | Jan 14, 2017 | Gut and Food
My brother came into the kitchen just now, and said, “It smells like cocoa powder and coconut,”. I told him that he was right, that was exactly what it was. All three of these ingredients I could not have had a month ago, but they are all technically AIP,...
by Sara | Jan 11, 2017 | Living With Health Challenges, Mental Struggles, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Toxic Mold Poisoning
I love to read. It’s one of my favorite things!… …*Recalls her attention back to reality from where it had wandered into books*. There came a time, however, when suddenly I couldn’t read. I could not focus on books, even a favorite novel I had...
by Sara | Jan 8, 2017 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Guest Writers
Hello! Nina here! I’m Sara’s younger sister, and I’ve written for R535 before. I haven’t actually told her I’m writing this, but we’ll see if she approves :). So, I was recently listening to songs I used to like, and ‘Never Gone’ by Colton Dixon came on. To me it’s a...
by Sara | Jan 4, 2017 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness
Hello there! Did you enjoy my last post? It was pretty heavy, wasn’t it? Well, I have one more hard question to address today. Why would God, if He loves us, allow us to go through such pain and suffering? Can you believe that He has a purpose in it? A plan? No,...
by Sara | Jan 1, 2017 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness
I said I’d see you next year, and here I am! Wow, isn’t it so strange to think about?! But we are here! And I thank God for putting me in this year, though I have no idea what it will hold. Hopefully less pain, and more health, than last year, but I still...
by Sara | Dec 18, 2016 | Living With Health Challenges, Uncategorized
I have only a few more Christmas-related ideas for you. 🙂 I hope you enjoy and have a wonderful Christmas, as this will be my last post until then! Cards By now, I am sure that you have Christmas cards from friends and family coming in, depending on how many people...
by Sara | Dec 15, 2016 | Living With Health Challenges, Uncategorized
The interesting life of a mold/MCS person, when getting presents for other people is so much easier than receiving presents yourself. How do you navigate that? I suppose this post is written mainly for you to be able to forward to your grandparents and friends, but...
by Sara | Dec 8, 2016 | Living With Health Challenges, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Uncategorized
One of my family’s Christmas traditions (we have quite a few ;)) is that we always decorate for Christmas on Black Friday. This year, however, we were planning what we wanted to do to decorate. We quickly realized that we were going to have to be creative and do...
by Sara | Dec 6, 2016 | Gut and Food, Living With Health Challenges
Hello! I promised you a bone broth recipe, didn’t I? 🙂 Well here it is, as well as a few tips from my mom (who makes the bone broth in our family.) First, the recipe. I was going to write out our own, but I found one that my mom suggested that probably is better...
