Over the last month, Facebook has demanded that I prove I’m me in order to allow me to continue to post on my For the Love of Purple Facebook fan page I’ve had for almost 10 years. I have almost 9300 fans over there who miss my purple posts. In fact, the number went up […]
Read the rest of this entry »What’s in YOUR Bra? A TSA Tale
Apparently, a 56-year-old, 5′ nuthin’ woman with Fibro and Essential Tremors is a threat to national security! But don’t worry…TSA THOROUGHLY investigated me. Don’t you all feel safer now?! Out of hundreds of would-be passengers in the San Fransisco TSA line, they singled ME out. After having taken my shoes and sweater off, put my […]
Read the rest of this entry »Seeing the Humor in Struggles
2018 wasn’t the year I thought it would be. I thought my husband would have a permanent job by now. I thought I had handled my insomnia, my Fibro, was done with surgeries, and wouldn’t have anything new until I was old. Well, oldER. But I was wrong. Have you ever had so many weirdly […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Mammogram Blues News
I went to get my yearly mammogram today. It was an interesting experience. I mean, it’s always an “interesting” experience, but this one was due to an observation that the lovely woman who did my mammogram made to me. The lovely, sweet woman who performed my mammogram was charming. She was so cute as […]
Read the rest of this entry »Giving God More of Me
I wasn’t going to write a post this week…or any other week for the foreseeable future. I’d had enough and I didn’t know what to say anymore. In fact, I wasn’t on social media either. For the last week, I’ve been too busy trying to run three business and in too much pain from arthritis, […]
Read the rest of this entry »There are at least 14 people in here!
Ever feel like “There are at least 14 people in here” and each one of them wants something different from you? So last Thursday, we drove down to Indy to find a house since our lease is up the end of this month. On the way down I was thinking about all the other things […]
Read the rest of this entry »It’s not vainity; it’s part of chronic illness
So, apparently, I’m an OLD, middle-aged person. I had my dr appointment the other day. First thing he said was that, based on my skin, I haven’t been taking my hormone replacement therapy. I reminded him that he didn’t prescribe it yet because he wanted me to have some tests. That explains it, he said. […]
Read the rest of this entry »JoJo’s Journey: 35 Years with Chronic Illness
Sorry I haven’t posted in several weeks, but a lightning strike took out 15 electrical items in our new home last month and one of them was my computer. It took me a few weeks to figure out that I could record a YouTube video from my iPhone and another to figure out how to […]
Read the rest of this entry »Living with Brain Fog: What it’s Like on My Cloud
I wrote this a while back as a Facebook Note. I copy and paste it here this week for those of you dealing with brain fog. It can be frustrating, embarrassing and…let’s face it…FUNNY! ———————————- You are making your breakfast, toast and butter, and you realize you need a knife so you go to the […]
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