Category: About Me
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Speak Up: The ‘not it’ mentality
This is part three of my episodic retelling of battles fought, questions asked, and lessons learned this calendar year with healthcare and insurance. In this segment I highlight that names are deceiving, few people are helpful, and it takes religious and maniacal follow up, documentation, veiled threats, and a flexible work schedule to get answers.
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Fernweh: My 2023 travels
Fernweh means an ache to get away and travel to a distant place. It literally translates to “distance-sickness.” For three years, I did not travel. I knew I missed travel; I just didn’t know how much until, with each trip this year, I found a bit of me.
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Speak Up: The pen is mightier than the sword
This is part two of my episodic retelling of battles fought, questions asked, and lessons learned this calendar year. Know your insurance, understand the appeal process, write the letter and follow up. Assume nothing. Take nothing for granted. Put things in writing.
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Ann Patchett Made My Mind Race
There are books that are fun to read, easy to read, escapism. Then there are books that showcase the brilliance of the writer, the mastery that is writing. Thank you, Ann Patchett for shaping my feelings into clear ideas, for reigniting memories and nostalgic reverie, and for being an unparalleled storyteller.
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Meaningless Vows
Absent of a vow or a ceremony, I know the people in my life who are here for better and for worse, in sickness and in health, till death do us part and that’s more than enough.
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Chronic Illness-Doing OK-Surviving Barbie
I wanted to be a success story, but I’m realizing I’m just me — unapologetically me. There is so much nuance in chronic illness; we live in the gray area and that unfortunately, is the hardest story to tell. But to me, that’s where the true story lies.
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Convalescing by the sea: My trip to Guernsey
I’ve traveled the world and without a doubt, this vacation was the trip of a lifetime. Guernsey might just be the most beautiful, refreshing, soul soothing, healing, and magical place on earth.
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What am I living for?
My life is smaller and quieter than it used to be. I don’t have a plan. Maybe for the first time in my life, that’s ok.
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Memory, Time & Moments
One year ago today, I checked-in to the hospital for an experimental bone marrow transplant.
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Mirror, mirror on the wall
When I look in the mirror, it’s like another person stares back at me. The person I see and the person I am are incongruous.
My Chronic Library 