Hellobee

I have had a difficult time processing my diagnosis. At my onset, I was physically very unwell. I couldn’t… function. I couldn’t walk on my own. I couldn’t come up with words I wanted to use. I slurred. I felt like I was going to fall out of chairs. I couldn’t see. I couldn’t use […]

I belong to a few Facebook support groups for people my age with MS or any kind of Chronic Illness, and one thing that always strikes me as very tragic, is that a lot of people don’t have an effective support system. My husband and I have been married almost 11 years. We started dating […]

I’m in a long term battle with health issues that started when I was a teenager. Recently, I found a doctor that is taking me seriously and is trying to figure out what is happening in my body. This stemmed partially from a serious uptick in my episodes, and the fact that all of a […]

When I look back on my first few years of motherhood, I was very lonely. There were a number of compounding factors that led to this. One was that I was a graduate student living five hours away from my own parents, two hours from my husband’s family, and at least that, if not more […]

If there was one emotion that defined me for a very long period of time, from high school to grad school, it was guilt. Some people seem to have a natural inclination toward certain emotions. For instance, certain people are angrier than others; their natural reaction to small slights or negative things is anger. Anger is […]

There are a lot of resources out there for healthy parents of disabled children. There are parents who are fierce advocates for their children, and write about the experience. There are Facebook groups and communities for parents of children with a huge range of illnesses and disabilities. There are a lot of fantastic resources out […]

I have a laundry list of chronic illness conditions, which I regularly write about here as a voice for chronic illness parents. Since I wrote the post about my conditions, I have found out I likely have another, gastroparesis, which is a partial stomach paralysis/delayed stomach emptying that impacts my digestion, causing a lot of […]