Adventures in Congestive Heart Failure The thing they don't really tell you about these tests is that if you have a chance to read the actual findings of an echocardiogram, even if your heart is totally healthy, you will have to google two dozen terms to make sure you're reading it right. And …
Continue Reading about Why I went to the Emergency Room…twice. Part Two
Adventures in Congestive Heart Failure. In case you missed it,I am in Congestive Heart Failure. And in an effort to put more accessible information out into the world wide web, I'm sharing my journey from "What in the fresh f*ckery does this mean?" (current mood) to healthy heart thriving this …
Continue Reading about Why I went to the Emergency Room…twice. Part One.
Did that take your breath away?It did mine. Quite literally.After back to back ER visits in December with a shortness of breath so short I couldn't string more than three words together without stopping to breath, I heard those life changing words; "You are in congestive heart failure." I'm 45 …
It's funny...The things you learn while trying to impart wisdom on a child. Sometimes, if you're paying attention,it's you that needed to hear what you said. It's softball season and this year* that means I have THREE girls getting dirty on the field every week. It means farmer tans, …
I mean, really.Am I impacting anything?Is this affecting change?Why spend the time and energy marching?Is there any real hope for the future? Last Friday night I was wiped out. After a long week I was ready to phone it in for the weekend and just chill when our eight year old, Chloe, came running …
I thought I had it right.I raised them the way I had been taught.We don't see color, we see character.But I think I did it wrong. After all, when I was growing up my mother started her own company in the late 80's and hired a black woman to be one of her Vice Presidents. We loved Rita. She was …
