June, 2014 - Living With HIBM

Birthdays, Blogiversaries and Blankets

June 21, 2014November 19, 2017

Today is my 39th birthday and my blog’s 3rd birthday. As a gift to both of us, I decided to kick it up a notch and graduate onto a new and improved platform. One might wonder why I didn’t do this sooner (considering all of the snafus and technological hiccups I encountered with Blogger). Truth is, I think a part of me never wanted to have to invest too much effort in a blog for a disease that I wasn’t “supposed to have” or that I simply didn’t want. But since HIBM seems to be here to stay, I figured I may as well go for it. And take one more small step along the increasingly longer-than-expected road to acceptance.

Living

June 2, 2014November 18, 2017

It’s not like me to post two days in a row. I hesitated momentarily because so much of yesterday’s post, especially the piece from Gabrielle, was about being able to share the difficult feelings without feeling obligated to wrap them up with a bow. But I kind of can’t help myself. It just so happens that last night was such an incredible gift…