CMT can be a pain

This post is about CMT so if you’re not interested in the disease, or you simply can’t stand one more downer today, please disregard. I try to keep these posts up beat but sometimes things truly get me down and I’m thinking that they likely get others with CMT down as well. I’m writing this [...]

Thoughts on coping with CMT pain

Last Saturday I went to a chronic pain support group meeting that was more a they- tell-us than a we-tell-them but it served its purpose. I didn’t stay for the entire meeting because it began an hour late and the room was freezing cold for me. I soon lose vitality in a cold room and [...]

Is it my vagus nerve?

I painted outside for four hours today. It was lovely.  I could almost hear the garden growing after last night’s thunderstorm and rain. A small rabbit came out of the cedars and started munching on the Virginia Creeper that usually grows around the rim of our little pond.  Now I know why there is no [...]

A house is for those who live in it

The Saturday (Toronto) Star always gives me something (more) to think about.  As if I needed it. It helps mold my perspective on life and let’s me see what others are doing and thinking. There are two articles in it today that I think work together:  Handicap vs heritage on the front page and Helen [...]

Shutting the door

It doesn’t happen often but sometimes my husband and I have to be in two different places at the same time.  We have one van. Today, I had to be at the hairdressers at 11 a.m. He had to be in Welland to have the van looked at at 10 a.m. The weather is nice [...]