1.Medical Stuff:

• 1 day of PT. My belly was feeling funny so we took it easier on the recumbent bike. I’m going to look into getting a prenatal cradle in the next week just to give my joints more support. Trying to be a proactive EDS’r as this babe gets bigger!
• Had my glucose test, anemia test, dtap shot, and a heart rate and belly check yesterday with my OB. Things checked out really well. Keep cookin’ baby!

I’m so sorry you can’t work full-time anymore.  Aren’t you sad you had to give up full-time?

Thanks, but it really is okay.  I am just grateful I can still work half-time, doing what I love.

Very, very well said.

I think we all have things we wish we could change in our lives. Maybe it’s changes about our body, or our relationships, or our jobs.

But sometimes, wake up calls come along that make us think about the changes we wish for, and that maybe we don’t have it that bad.

Maybe we actually have it quite good.

As you can see, I did not write the piece below.  I wanted to post it though, because I find it to be a brilliant description of learning to live life with a chronic illness. 

Each time I read the following piece, I think about my specialists (especially Dr. Grubb and Dr. Lavallee) who are encouraging me to tame my gorilla.