1460 Days of Being a Widow
Lorena
Time Keeps on Slipping, Slipping, Slipping into the Future Really? Again? Didn’t I just write a post about being a three-year-old widow? Now it’s already four years? That seems ……
Navel Gazing
December 18th again? Already???
CW for death of loved ones and the stress of grief at the holiday season. Storytime! I’ll try not to make this unreadably long. (Cue Morgan Freeman voice: “she did…
Can you separate the art from the artist? Should you? How? When? To what level?
Content warning for mentioning names of famous people who’s works I have enjoyed up until finding out that artist/creator is/was a Garbage Human. I will not be discussing the things…
Brain Dump
I have a lot of things floating around in my head taking up space, so I went to do a “brain dump” the other day and I realized after staring…
The Wrapup (a mental health journey in seven parts)
Week #7 (09/19-09/25) FINALLY, A FULL DIAGNOSIS. I met with my doctor yesterday to get the results of the full Creyos test; she sent me PDFs of my results and…
Six Weeks on New Brain Meds (continued)
Week #3 (08/22-08/28) This week I helped June with her computer. It was a little complicated because David was buying the computer out in the PNW where he lives, and…
Six weeks on new brain meds
The result of the test is that I do have ADHD. But… just a little. Like, I barely scored on the scale for positive. More than the ADHD, I have…
What’s your damage, Heather?
While I was waiting for the results of the test, I played a little game. I wrote down some of the things I consider symptoms; things I’d like to get…
Let’s talk about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Back in … Late May? Early June? My doctor sent out an email saying they were starting to do this in-office test thing, to test for ADHD. I didn’t really…
Let’s talk about Anxiety
I’ve always been anxious. I never wanted to be, I don’t enjoy it, it’s definitely not something I wake up in the morning and think “gosh, I hope I’m anxious…
Too many forks and not enough spoons
CW: death, grief, widowhood, mental health Dear Tim; A couple of weeks after you died, I was putting clean silverware away, and I had a passing thought – “when we…
Grief isn’t sadness, it’s exhaustion
Google has P A G E S of hits when you search for grief and exhaustion. I know this because every couple of months I kind of go, “huh, why…