How to Overcome Lower Back Pain
One of the risks of being a caregiver for a stroke patient is that you’re going to get hurt eventually. In fact, “nursing employees suffer more debilitating back and other…
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Adventures in Rehab
On January 4th, Mark moved to Pate Rehabilitation, an intensive brain injury and stroke rehabilitation program in Dallas. We had very high hopes for this rehab facility as they came…
Life Changes
A little over a month ago, my husband Mark had a catastrophic stroke. What followed has been one of the hardest months of my life. The stroke happened in his…
Catching up
So, where have I been? I have tried to write a few times since October, but something would always come up. Primarily, I was spending an inordinate amount of time…
Your body, your health, your choice
I ended up watching a documentary last week called Oxyana, about a town called Oceana, West Virginia that has been decimated by oxycontin abuse. It is not an easy watch, but I got…
Comfort Zones Kill
About 20 years ago, I was working out a lot. My partner and I joined a gym, and as a part of our new membership, we were required to go…
Kittens, School and Raw Milk
We have kittens! I wasn’t exactly planning this. Claire and I have been going to the Siskiyou Humane Society and visiting kittens this summer. She met one, Tatiana, and fell…
Remineralizing Claire’s Teeth
We just returned from a whirlwind, too-fast trip to San Francisco. It has been a wildly hectic summer for some reason, and we had to squeeze in a trip to…