Less than a week before CL died, I had another challenge come up. It's been a really shitty year ( Read more... )

I had the follow-up visit for the endoscopy today ( Read more... )

I wrote this last week, 4/15 but forgot to post it, so here it is ( Read more... )

My mother and her mother both share a bizarre kind of helplessness. It's not the kind of helplessness, for example, typically associated with depression. It's weird, and it's been on my mind a lot lately. Is it a lack of common sense? Or what ( Read more... )

Last night my legs started hurting. From about mid-thigh down to my feet, it all hurt all the way down. It was so painful, I had a hard time getting to sleep. Today it hurts less, with most of the pain now being in my feet and knees. I think this is probably wheat-related, and I hope it goes away very fast ( Read more... )

Very early Sunday morning, I ate some conventional, wheat-based doughnuts. The results have been powerful ( Read more... )

Serena Pie went to the vet this morning to have her teeth cleaned. It turns out she has "resorptive lesions", meaning that her infected gums have absorbed the roots of the infected teeth. Three were resorbed, so they cut the tops off of those teeth and sewed her gums shut over them. She is also missing some teeth and they think those may have ( Read more... )

One of the things I've gotten good at in my 30s is being kind. I try really hard now to respond to anger and difficulty with kindness and compassion, instead of immediately becoming defensive. There are several reasons I do this, chief among them being that kindness is just more effective in general for my goals ( Read more... )

So, I have officially been wheat-free for 6 whole months. What a trip ( Read more... )

So, I am in the early 6th month of being wheat-free ( Read more... )