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Am I Always Feeling Down?

When Charlie Kirk was assassinated I felt angry and sad. Now, I just feel down. This has turned into a bit of a flare and feelings of sadness. It’s the kind of sadness that says, I don’t want to do anything. The flare I’m having has a lot of symptoms that I am used to […]

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Effective Strategies to Lesson Joint Pain During Cooler Weather

Updated: Oct 12 As the leaves change and the air turns crisp, many of us anticipate the beauty of fall and the coziness of winter. However, for those of us dealing with joint pain, cooler weather can bring on a flare or other challenges. I know from my own experience how much the weather can affect […]

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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 […]