Yearly Archives: 2014

Digital-oral-thermometer-001 — I could quote science after psychology study and report showing how our thoughts effect our actions and physical self. But I don’t want to bore you with statistics and facts. I just want to speak truth. Your thoughts affect everything. Your thoughts affect the friends you choose, the boy/girlfriend you […]

Stop Thinking Sick

29 Sep, 2014 in Uncategorized by justlivinglikethis

dural_sinuses1329186010315 — I had tremendous chest pain, arrhythmias, tachycardia, head temple pressure, scalp pulling and tingling – you name it as a symptom related to heart and head, I had it. It even felt as though my heart was beating HARD and then would stop….. and then start again. I read it […]

Blood Flow, Brain Issues and Lyme – CCSVI

23 Sep, 2014 in Uncategorized by justlivinglikethis

FacebookIcon (1) — We are in unchartered territory people. At the creation of social media, I don’t think anyone realized the widespread variety of uses that would come out of it. Its original intention to feed our insatiable desire to see what everyone else is doing and pretend we have the most desired […]

The New Facebook Frontier

18 Sep, 2014 in Uncategorized by justlivinglikethis

NorthTower — From my office building two blocks to the north of the World Trade Center, we had a unique vantage point. There was something distinct we saw from the roof that you can’t generally see from the video footage. After the first plane hit the North Tower, we ran upstairs to […]

My White Flag of Surrender

15 Sep, 2014 in Uncategorized by justlivinglikethis

Group of school kids with their thumbs up. — It started simple, constipation, then behavior issues, then food allergies, concentration, affection, textures, and catipulted us in the world of chronically sick children. I am recovering from chronic Lyme disease and unknowingly passed it to both my kids in the womb. They were born sick, and until my Lyme diagnosis, […]

10 Must Haves for Kids with Chronic Illness

10 Sep, 2014 in Uncategorized by justlivinglikethis

article-new-thumbnail-ehow-images-a04-ht-bl-write-eviction-notice-800x800 — Please take this as your final notice for eviction. In fact, you don’t even have to read to the bottom of the letter to pack up and go, just stop right here put the letter down and get your crap and get OUT. And by the way, all those friends […]

Dear Lyme Disease – This is Your Final Eviction Notice

8 Sep, 2014 in Uncategorized by justlivinglikethis

laughin-laos — In my old college days, we played quarters, we played chandeliers, we played horseshoes – you name it and we drank it. The one beer game I was reminded of this week, though, was when we would watch a particular movie and drink each time we heard a certain word. […]

Happy Friday – My New PhD

29 Aug, 2014 in Uncategorized by justlivinglikethis

gffootball — For any of you who have played sports, you are completely familiar with the idea of “getting psyched out”. Its when you let the other team, the other fans, the scoreboard, or your own fears “get into your head” and mess up your game. You can practice and be the […]

Getting Psyched Out – The Home Field Advantage

29 Aug, 2014 in Uncategorized by justlivinglikethis

photo (7) — I used to despise doing puzzles. In my early and mid-years, I couldn’t sit still long enough to go fishing or do a puzzle. Quiet was boring and stuffy and I had to go go go. Luckily, life has changed me to adore the quiet and find time for it […]

Finding the Puzzle Pieces

22 Aug, 2014 in Uncategorized by justlivinglikethis

normal band aid — I vaguely remember daydreaming with a friend as we were both steeped deeply in naivety as first time pregnant women. Our conversations would drift happily through la la land about the challenges and heartaches we would experience as parents. Blah, blah, blah. Parenting is nothing like you can imagine. It […]

Normal Never Happens to Us

15 Aug, 2014 in Uncategorized by justlivinglikethis