8 Years Later… and stronger than ever!

You know those moments in life that you can play back in your mind like it was yesterday?….the moments that fundamentally change you as a person and how you view the world.  Moments like 911, your wedding day, the birth of your children, or the day the doctor calls to...

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This too, shall pass....

This post could potentially be a mess of jumbled thoughts of me talking to myself but this blog is technically a journal that’s public, so I’m going to go with it... plus ‘Ramblings’ is in the blog title so you knew what you were getting into 🤣  A few years ago I wrote a few blog posts about ‘new’ issues that are now becoming reoccurring themes...

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Like riding a bike...

So, yesterday it was my birthday and my wonderful husband got me a hammock... While I was laying there looking up at the most perfect blue Wilmington sky I started contemplating the last 42ish years, but mostly the last 8 years since my original diagnosis and how they have fundamentally...

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New diagnosis and how to support those diagnosed...

In 2011 I was diagnosed with a condition that forever changed my life... that no-one knew anything about. The first 6 months were the most scary months of my life. Until this week, I forgot what that first 6 months felt like until my daughter came to me to say she had been diagnosed with a rare condition that will also change her life. She and I talked...

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4 Years.. I am doing just fine!

Nearly every blog post I apologize for not posting more often and my habit of procrastination...but I'm not going to do that this time.  Anyone who reads this regularly has already come to the conclusion I am hopeless! Feb 10th was my 4 year anniversary since my diagnosis and I thought that was the perfect opportunity for another post.. Better...

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Perspective once again...

For months I have been in heaven... No major BI/CM events and as much as I knew they were lurking below the surface I had forgot how bad they were till they reminded me.    This week they were back with a vengeance and it's been a long long time since I have felt...

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Links and Mandela..

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.         Nelson Mandela I was reading a blog about Nelson Mandela's life and came across this quote of his.   It hit close to home and I wanted...

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