I'm finally all healed up from my dual-surgery round robin in July. But because I'm such a glutton for punishment tremendous bad-ass, I couldn't just leave it at that. Nooooo. I figured "why not tack on another major medical event,...
Category: depression
Ad astra per aspera.
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 was my 36th birthday. A year previous, I was just coming off of a nervous breakdown, which is a phrase usually relegated to hyperbole. Except this time, it was true. In early December 2012, my already...
Estrogen is a helluva drug.
The "Babysicles" Saga - Update #1: (yeah, I just referred to my future children as babysicles. what about it? They're gonna be in a freezer for the next howeverlong, and it sounds better than "frozen babies", or "embryfroze". Although fro-yo...
How an episode of New Girl changed my life (or: the frozen baby story)
Last December, I was sitting in the living room of my mid-divorce crash-pad (you know, that friend's apartment where you live for a few months before you can bear going out into the world on your own), in the midst...
That time I won the lottery
Back in January, I was mid-way through "the worst of it" in my depression when I won the Listserve Lottery. The Listserve is a daily email service wherein one subscriber each day "wins" the opportunity to write (up to 500...