Back to Blog

Category: Autoimmune

Autoimmune

March 1st, The Start of MS Awareness Month


Today is March 1st. The entire month of March is MS awareness month. The week of March 7 is MS awareness week. It’s safe to say that MS is going to be all around for a little while. In the past I haven’t participated in these days, weeks or months very much. The most I have done […]

READ MORE

Autoimmune

Butternut Squash Soup with Bacon


I’ll be honest, I haven’t been on the soup wagon my whole life. I know, how horrible right? But growing up I was only exposed to chicken noodle soup, which had lots of vegetables in it. And when I was a kid, veggies were NOT my thing. AT ALL. When we had chicken noodle soup, […]

READ MORE

Autoimmune

How to Survive an MRI, and Other Life Stressors


If you’ve ever been so fortunate to visit the hospital for specialized testing, MRI/CAT scan/CT scan etc, you know it is not something to be thankful for. Hospitals can envoke extreme anxiety for many people, just by their atmosphere alone, not to mention the actual reason for being there. I recently had my latest round […]

READ MORE

Autoimmune

Better late than never, a New Years post.


That pesky question. The ever popular inquiry that everyone seems to make this time of year. ‘What’s your New Years Resolution?’ There always seems to be a little judgement behind that question too. Like ‘What are you going to fail at this year? Seems to be how it goes. Since I’m not too big on […]

READ MORE

Autoimmune

D-E-T-O-X


Over the past month while I have been out of work, besides recovering from surgery which has been going swell, I have put a major effort into healing and especially helping my body detoxify itself. All my results from the functional medicine doctor I saw told me my body required some much needed TLC. I began with […]

READ MORE

Autoimmune

A canoli, shrimp and lime walked into a bar…


So, I get married in 19 days. 19 days! Holy Canoli! I love canolis. Mike’s Pastry on Hanover St. was my go to for a canoli. I haven’t had one in like, several years, because I just don’t eat them now, but I am sure I can find/make/discover a gluten-free, paleo, canoli. I have to […]

READ MORE

Autoimmune

Pinball at the doctor


Doc: “Well, your labs look normal’ Doc: “You shouldn’t be hurting” Me: (blank stare) That’s about how my follow up with my rheumatologist went last Friday. He told me I shouldn’t be hurting. Not in a validating, ‘this is an awful symptom, you shouldn’t have to feel this way’, kinda way. He told me I […]

READ MORE

Autoimmune

Black and White


Black and White. Saturated and void. Over abundance and lacking. Two very opposite words, two very opposite associations made with those words. Usually my MS symptoms would be characterized by ‘white’; void or lacking. There is a numbness that is usually present in various parts of my body at any given time but generally my back and […]

READ MORE

Autoimmune

Lemons lemons everywhere…


For the past two weeks I have been in the process of doing Megan Rand, Ginger Newtrition’s Spring Detox. It was not a detox where you don’t eat, or only drink water, or juice, or starve. On the contrary my friends! It was full of flavor and food. This was a detox where you cut […]

READ MORE

Autoimmune

The Paleo Mom AIP bundle!!


This is going to be a quickie….I need to tell ya’ll about this!!!     The Paleo Mom has created an AMAZING resource!! An AIP bundle!!! Full of e-books, resource books, coupon codes, the whole she-bang! It is only available May 20th- May 25th, so snap it up quick!!

READ MORE