Wow - 6 months. That is a quality effort for not writing. I'd say I've been busy but that's pretty much the standard in my life so it's not really an excuse. Why am I writing today and not in the last 6-months? A lot has happened - great stuff, not-so-great stuff but I suppose ...
Week 7 Update
I know what you're thinking... How did we get to week 7 - it was like yesterday when you wrote "Calorie Addict". No it was actually at the start of September. At the time, I'd just done a lot of thinking and writing and thinking, so I had a few posts scheduled. It has in fact ...
Calorie Addict
My name is Amanda - and I’m addicted to food. Oh, and I have a chronic digestive disease that tries to kill me every so often. I really wanted to start off this post by blaming everything but myself for the situation I’m in. I really did. I even thought about what I would say. But ...
IT’S NOT YOU, IT’S ME!
I had a very interesting experience the other day. I was called a social climber. I was called this by someone formally in my life, who I drifted away from, in amongst a tirade of abuse which focused on how selfish I was for not helping them with their problems. Wow. I’m going to admit I wasn’t ...
Catalyst for Change (pt3)
I don’t want to get caught up in the story of my last job. Part of being able to let go of the past is getting it out of my system and leaving it there - which I was able to finally do in, Truth be Told. Did I hate people from there? Yes. Without a ...
I shudder at the thought…
So I'm in a situation... and it's one of those good/bad situations. Since going back on the Mercaptopurine in April I've had a very long list of side effects. The worst being fatigue. Crohn's comes with a healthy dose of fatigue to start with - which makes sense, it's Auto-Immune so your body is fighting a ...
Dear anti-vaxxer….
Last week a celebrity personality posted on her very public, very large social media platform that she will be having a home birth with a midwife, raising her child as a vegan… and will not be vaccinating. That personality is the heavily pregnant Kat Von D. I was totally with her (not necessarily agreeing, but with ...
My response to “you don’t look sick”.
Let’s go back in time almost 10 years. Back to when I was first diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease. I was angry. And I was entitled to be angry - anger is one of the stages of loss. I had just lost my “old life” so I was working through the grief process. One thing that used ...
“I’ve never known anything more dangerous than my own mind…”
I've had a real struggle the last two weeks. I've had Influenza A for a while now and every little action has been harder than it should be. Getting up is hard. Working my main job is hard. Working my second job is hard. Housekeeping is hard. Relating to people is hard. It's all been harder ...
PLOT TWIST!
So here I am... on a Tuesday, middle of the day... at home. Am I sick? No - well kinda, but that's a longer story. No, I am officially unemployed for the first time in my adult life. I shouldn't say that. I am actually self employed... but I think that's just semantics at this point. What ...