Reflecting With Grief and Gratitude After A Decade With Dystonia

Looking Back With Grief and Gratitude On Last Year's Road to Recovery

Last month was my 10th anniversary of living with dystonia. We've been together now for longer than any of my romantic relationships thus far. And like the most stormy of relationships, you could say we've had our share of dramatic ups and downs. Those first few years were especially challenging–including a 5-day hospital stay and two years of intensive immunotherapy. Yet, I eventually found a … [Read more...]

Celebrating the Caregiving Mother

mother and sick child

by Renée Canada There are the mothers who ignore the claims that you are fine, despite the out-of-nowhere, repeated falls you’ve just taken and seizure-like jerks in your body, and insist on taking to you to the ER. There are the mothers who are by your side, night and day, during the scariest week of your life in the hospital when your body has decided quite violently that you are no longer its … [Read more...]