15 Minutes

15 Minutes. We spend weeks upon weeks waiting and getting referrals for 15 minutes. That’s our time cap. I wait to get reacquainted with my old neurologist. I come prepared with charts and spreadsheets and medical records and my migraine journal. I don’t want to spend my 15 minutes going over that information, because that […]

Looking Back To Look Forward

Today I decided maybe I could use a dose of my own advice. In March I started this blog for a reason, and it has helped me tremendously. So I decided it was time to look back to where it all started. So I read. I read my posts from March. I read my posts […]

Paying To Sit In Waiting Rooms

  Let’s take a moment to sit back and picture the last waiting room you were in. You walk in, there’s probably some inconsistent signage directing you to these new “self check in kiosks” that no one is using. There’s sort of a line, maybe? Suddenly someone who really has no reason to be cranky […]

Trying To Live In The Middle

Between the days filled with agonizing pain and the days marked with heavy fatigue, there’s this strange middle ground I occasionally find myself in. Two days ago I was in a weird, fatigued state where I didn’t want to do much but scroll through social media and watch some Netflix… That day ended as I […]