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Understanding the Impact of Stress Layers on Chronic Illness Management

I have wanted to post this past week, but was too overwhelmed. One of my adult children is having family problems, and hubby and I have been focused on helping. It doesn’t matter how old our children get, we both rush to help when they need us. When people I love are hurting and I […]

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Chronic Christmas Panic

Lisa Ehrman It’s time for Christmas-is-almost-here-Panic! Every year I look through my lists of people and gifts, hoping I’ve done everything. Even when I was healthy, there would be something that I had missed. That meant running around buying what I could at the last minute. When I was younger and healthy, I took Christmas […]

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Subjective Medical Test Results

Today has been stressful and a little weird. When you deal with doctors there is so much subjectivity. It can make a person crazy and make me hesitant to even pretend to understand any medical stuff. My understanding of tests must be way off. The results of my two tests were finally collected by the […]

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More Test Results and Questions

Lisa Ehrman My two calcium tests are now finished. The test schedules were drawn out, because the hospital lost my first samples. I finally finished them on Monday. These tests were to complete the testing to see if I have a problem with my Parathyroid. An earlier test showed high PTH, so that was a […]

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Warm Memories With Pain

Our Christmas was filled with so many warm memories! Driving six days to spend four days with my family has been very hard. But, the memories of the four days are joyful, no matter the increase in pain. We have two more days of driving before we arrive at home. The only way I could […]