So I took the plunge and entered a $2000 prize poetry contest. I am waiting on my post to be reviewed. It cost me a buck to enter the contest. I missed that the first time around an even posted this as a free entry contest. By the time I realized it had cost me […]
So today I got a letter in the mail with a plastic card in it that had all the information about my bioprosthetic heart valve that I have. It had the serial number of the valve and the size and MRI information. I’m supposed to carry that card with me everywhere I go and show […]
When they rip holes on your walls, you find interesting things, like insulation and cords and wood panels and inside of window seats, sometimes you find a beer can. From the date of this Miller Lite can, it’s about 30 years old. Isn’t that the craziest thing to find in the bellows of your house? […]
The days I do physical therapy I get up and get dressed and leave the house and I feel almost normal. Then I arrive at physical therapy where I feel normal-ish. then I see myself in the wheelchair reflected in the mirrors or windows as I roll by and I remember I am far from […]
We all get sad sometimes, and we all have bouts of what we have come to call depression, but the truth is, there are lots of different types of depression. There is a mental health issue known as depression. This type of depression is usually short-lived, situational, and while it is caused by a chemical […]
Originally Posted by Michy on Jan 20, 2016 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So after meeting with the cardiologist at Baylor, I then met with the pulmonologist I’d been waiting for over a year to meet with. And she spent less than five minutes with me and put me into the hospital straight from clinic: Do not pass go, do not go […]
Apparently, I try to extubate myself when I wake from surgery with a breathing tube still in. Why do I wake up with the breathing tube still? That’s a good question that I’d like to ask of the doctor who decided during my second surgery to leave the breathing tube in for 22 hours longer […]
When I woke, it was, at first, the same as any other time I’d ever awakened. I faded into awareness. I could hear my best friend’s voice calling to me. I opened my eyes, and she was there, hovering over my face. “Hi!” she said, her eyes red, her voice unusually, artificially cheerful. I thought […]
I complain–a lot. To anyone who will listen, I complain about how hard life is right now. I can’t do the things I want to do, like walk. I sit in my chair and look at my bed, a hospital bed, in my living room where I sleep alone, and I think it should be […]
One of the hardest things I think for someone who is chronically ill and who has a special diet because of that illness is for them to get through the holidays healthy and well. There are so many reasons for the holidays being hard on those with chronic health issues, from the added stress of […]
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