Happy anniversary to my faulty immune system! Today marks one full year of officially having lupus. In light of that, there is a part of me that wants to drown my sorrows in a 2L bucket of ice cream, but there is also a part of me that wants to throw confetti in the air and […] Read more…
It’s no real secret that I struggle with my diet (who doesn’t though – amiright?!). I know that the way I eat can dramatically affect the way I feel and that I usually feel as good as possible (with lupus) when I am on a healthy diet. But then there’s cake and chocolate. I daydream […] Read more…
I’ve been neglecting my blog a lot lately. But I like to think I have good reasons for that. I will now list those reasons in a numbered list format because that is all the internet wants to read anymore: 1. Netflix is time consuming and is currently my #1 priority. Have you seen the […] Read more…
She takes the final, belaboured step down from her front door to the snow-covered sidewalk and pauses for a moment, one unsteady hand hovering just above the wooden handrail, waiting for her equilibrium to catch up. From inside my car, I watch the unintentional pantomime, waiting for her eye contact to assure me she’s going […] Read more…
If you live in St. John’s chances are you have heard of Winterholme as a bed & breakfast/spa. Recently Winterholme made some major changes and is now the Winterholme Wellness Centre. What does that mean, you may ask? It means that now you can go to Winterholme for massages, acupuncture, personal work-out sessions with a physio […] Read more…
A few times a month I get e-mails from these awful websites that focus on inspirational nonsense and the editors tell me that they came across my blog and thought I would be a good fit for their site. If you know me at all you know that I can’t stand that stuff. Even when […] Read more…
I haven’t posted in a long time, so it might seem like I’m super lazy for finally posting and it being a guest post, but this one is important (and also I’m super lazy). This guest post by Katie Ernst is about how women are way less likely to get diagnosed or treated for a […] Read more…
Lupus is the worst. It’s a stupid disease that can attack whatever part of your body that it wants to, whenever it wants to, for however long it wants to, and we can’t cure it. It gets to run around like a child with a sugar high, breaking all the rules and we just basically sit back […] Read more…
If you own a computer that has access to the internet you probably heard this week that Selena Gomez was diagnosed with lupus. If you follow several lupus related facebook pages because you also have lupus, chances are you saw 78 thousand links to the exact same 3 sentences about Selena Gomez having lupus and, […] Read more…
I feel like we need to get caught up. It’s kind of like we’ve been drifting lately and I don’t like that at all. I need to work on us more, I know. I need to give you more attention. And I will, I swear. This is the first step in doing that. I am […] Read more…