The bed in that photo is mine. It’s where I spend most of my time. It’s where I’ve spent most of my time for the last 6 years or so. Well, we’ve gotten a new bed since then, but I just swapped one memory foam surface for another and carried on like before. I lay […] Read more…
Editor’s Note: Ooh typing out editor’s note makes this seem very fancy. May is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month, so I asked my followers what topics they wanted me to discuss about EDS or chronic illness/disability. A bunch of people asked me to write about how to be a good friend to someone who has EDS […] Read more…
You know what? This is all really hard sometimes. I joke around a lot. I look for humour in every situation I find myself in. I smile and laugh and reassure everyone that I’m fine. And in general, I am. I am very proud of how I handle what comes my way. But sometimes I […] Read more…
Last month the wonderful lovely people from Rollz International gifted me a Rollz Motion, which is a 2-in-1 rollator/wheelchair combo. They gave it to me in exchange for some social media posts and an honest review on my blog. So this is me doing that! Everything I am about to say about the Rollz Motion […] Read more…
Well well well… What a fortnight it has been, my friends. For years now my body has been doing that weird thing where it just suddenly becomes allergic to something. It happened with the random two month anaphylactic nut allergy. It made me lactose intolerant after my body drank too much Ensure when my stomach […] Read more…
When I first started using a cane, I was super squirrelly about it. I didn’t really want to be seen with it. I started out just using it in my house where no one would see me. Then I worked myself up to using it in places I didn’t think I would run into anyone […] Read more…
If you follow me on instagram then you definitely know that I moved into a new house last May, because I basically beat you over the head with that information in the form of badly lit cell phone pictures of every room in my house every single time I buy one tiny piece of decor […] Read more…
Very catchy blog post title, wasn’t it? Hi, hello. I’m not sure if you remember me because I have disappeared for so long, but my name is Lisa Walters. I own this blog. I am famous. Two of those statements are true and one is a lie. It is now up to you to decide. […] Read more…
*Hahaha jk THE BEFOREMATH As you are probably aware, I was diagnosed last December with gastroparesis after many months of extreme stomach and back pain, nausea, vomiting, and general feelings of an alien baby trying to rip itself out of my abdominal area. Gastroparesis is a condition that affects the movement of the muscles in […] Read more…
There is no right or wrong way to react to being diagnosed with a disease. Everyone lives differently and everyone grieves differently. When I was diagnosed with a disease I held onto that diagnosis like it was a life vest and I was thrown overboard into an unforgiving ocean because that is honestly what it […] Read more…