Samters Triad

As I trudged up a hill with my husband a few weeks ago, I commented to him that people observing me would just think I was unfit and lazy with the number of stops I was needing to take (I’m never particularly nice to myself). That’s the thing, with hidden illness or disease, only the [...]

It’s a couch day today, and sometimes I just have to acknowledge that a couch day is OK — that I can lose myself in the pain for a while, call it quits for the day, and lounge around in my trackies, with the cat, on the couch. Sometimes that just has to be OK. [...]