Stories from the Lateral - a Healers Journey
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  • My Beginning y mas
    • In the Beginning - I died
    • Hollow Hallowed Ground - An Open Letter to family
  • Changes - new stories unforlding
  • Snippets From Time
    • 1 Life interrupted
    • 2 If you dream your life...
    • 3 Ode to memories
    • 4 Sitting on the lateral... literally
    • 5 Disease doesn't hang out in the brain
    • 6 Dia de muertos
    • 7 Face it head on!
    • 8 Someone Asked Me
    • 9 Am I more spiritual if...
    • 10 Love vs intelligence?
    • 11 Charity wrapped in dignity
    • 12 Being Strong Women
    • 13 How do you stop overthinking "it"?
    • 14 Ode to parrot head lyrics
    • 15 Embracing our changes
    • 16 Being called crazy
    • 17 Listening - tellings - do it
    • 18 Journeys end... or not
    • 19 The Merida journey - Little lives
    • 20 The Merida journey - Not so little Deaths
    • 21 Beyond the comfort zone
    • 22 Daddy
    • 23 Loss in the time of Covid
    • 24 Relationship Canyons
    • 25 Gone or just beyond
    • 26 Mind evolution
    • 27 You never know who will show up
    • 28 The Dichotomy of Perceptions
    • 29 Changes in Latitude
  • The Amputation Journey
    • How did it come to this?
    • Pink Lemonade
    • The return of the Medicine Woman
  • Social Experiments in Hearing
    • 1 Loss: What is more tragic?
    • 2 Loosing Fear - the Q
    • 3 Persaverance
  • Main
  • My Beginning y mas
    • In the Beginning - I died
    • Hollow Hallowed Ground - An Open Letter to family
  • Changes - new stories unforlding
  • Snippets From Time
    • 1 Life interrupted
    • 2 If you dream your life...
    • 3 Ode to memories
    • 4 Sitting on the lateral... literally
    • 5 Disease doesn't hang out in the brain
    • 6 Dia de muertos
    • 7 Face it head on!
    • 8 Someone Asked Me
    • 9 Am I more spiritual if...
    • 10 Love vs intelligence?
    • 11 Charity wrapped in dignity
    • 12 Being Strong Women
    • 13 How do you stop overthinking "it"?
    • 14 Ode to parrot head lyrics
    • 15 Embracing our changes
    • 16 Being called crazy
    • 17 Listening - tellings - do it
    • 18 Journeys end... or not
    • 19 The Merida journey - Little lives
    • 20 The Merida journey - Not so little Deaths
    • 21 Beyond the comfort zone
    • 22 Daddy
    • 23 Loss in the time of Covid
    • 24 Relationship Canyons
    • 25 Gone or just beyond
    • 26 Mind evolution
    • 27 You never know who will show up
    • 28 The Dichotomy of Perceptions
    • 29 Changes in Latitude
  • The Amputation Journey
    • How did it come to this?
    • Pink Lemonade
    • The return of the Medicine Woman
  • Social Experiments in Hearing
    • 1 Loss: What is more tragic?
    • 2 Loosing Fear - the Q
    • 3 Persaverance
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Disease doesn't hang out
in our brain

Calling Bullshit ...Recently I saw a post on a fb group I'm part of - that while I adore the support and lifting up of women - this one post I have to go BULLSHIT about. 
It's not a new thought by any means - but it's time to put a counterpoint out there.

You can name your disease - and that doesn't give it power over you!
Quite the opposite I believe.  If you hide what you have to fight or live with in the shadows - then the disease symptoms can sneak up and SMACK YOU like Jethro to Tony D.
Talking about a disease - does NOT make it take over your body again!
OMG I wanted to get a little violent on this one.  What the fuck?  Who can imagine that saying "I had XYZ Disease " can in any way make your body think you have it again?  It's not like the thought is hiding a pocket of that virus, fungus, disease away in your brain and it suddenly throws itself at your immune system for you to deal with all over again. 
YOU BEAT THAT FUCKER! That means you have a type of near immunity - no it's not guaranteed - but anything you beat 100% once - you have the map on how to beat it again if you need. 

I have Hashimoto Thyroid Disease and DISH
Okay - what that means is long term for me.  Am I afraid of it?  HELL NO.  It's just part of my journeys story!   I've undergone 22+ surgeries and procedures in 17 years dealing with the side effects of these autoimmune illnesses.  I still laugh, smile, live, enjoy life!  How I face each event related is "I will be better after - I will have no pain, I will regain X, I will have a new story to share, a new chance to share my journey with others".
Guess what - while not every surgery went perfect - I LEARNED from each and now have more potent stories to share.  More information to pass on in what to avoid or what to do!  This helps others that are new to having a disease journey to walk.  Sometimes I have answers - sometimes I don't.  But I can always find a connection of understanding!

DON'T BE AFRAID OF TELLING THE STORY OF YOUR JOURNEY

Sharing our journey - can help shine hope into a life where others may feel only desperation!
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger - CAN be our motto <grin>
I'm here to have fun - no matter the body that I live in!  
The tests are to make me a better teacher not to make me perfect.
Huggs and Abrazos to the brave souls that share the story of their journey! 
Thank you for being an inspiration, a beacon of hope and for living in the light.
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  • Main
  • My Beginning y mas
    • In the Beginning - I died
    • Hollow Hallowed Ground - An Open Letter to family
  • Changes - new stories unforlding
  • Snippets From Time
    • 1 Life interrupted
    • 2 If you dream your life...
    • 3 Ode to memories
    • 4 Sitting on the lateral... literally
    • 5 Disease doesn't hang out in the brain
    • 6 Dia de muertos
    • 7 Face it head on!
    • 8 Someone Asked Me
    • 9 Am I more spiritual if...
    • 10 Love vs intelligence?
    • 11 Charity wrapped in dignity
    • 12 Being Strong Women
    • 13 How do you stop overthinking "it"?
    • 14 Ode to parrot head lyrics
    • 15 Embracing our changes
    • 16 Being called crazy
    • 17 Listening - tellings - do it
    • 18 Journeys end... or not
    • 19 The Merida journey - Little lives
    • 20 The Merida journey - Not so little Deaths
    • 21 Beyond the comfort zone
    • 22 Daddy
    • 23 Loss in the time of Covid
    • 24 Relationship Canyons
    • 25 Gone or just beyond
    • 26 Mind evolution
    • 27 You never know who will show up
    • 28 The Dichotomy of Perceptions
    • 29 Changes in Latitude
  • The Amputation Journey
    • How did it come to this?
    • Pink Lemonade
    • The return of the Medicine Woman
  • Social Experiments in Hearing
    • 1 Loss: What is more tragic?
    • 2 Loosing Fear - the Q
    • 3 Persaverance