Category Archives: Health

An Open Letter to My Menstrual Cup

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I watched you for a long time before we got together. My friends kept saying I should meet you, that I’d love you, that afterward I’d have no idea how we’d existed apart for so long. I’ve been set up before, so I was reluctant. Skeptical. But I decided to give you a try. I purchased a menstrual cup. The… Read more »

Some Days Just Feel Endless

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The first word that came to mind when someone asked how my day was today was “relentless.” My day was relentless. From the moment the alarm went off in my freezing cold bedroom to right now, I have been counting down the moments for this day to end. I could have predicted this, but I didn’t. Here are the signs it… Read more »

Accidentally Exactly Right — Why I Drove a Stranger Home from the ER

Last week Emmett busted his head open in some mysterious incident that occurred in the dark in the boys’ room after bedtime while he was inexplicably on Miles’ bed but they “weren’t playing,” “weren’t fighting,” and “weren’t messing around.” They were able to glue it successfully at the pediatric ER at Oak Hill Hospital, and it was healing fine —… Read more »

Day 17: I Vastly Underestimated the Impact

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I still keep expecting to wake up and realize that yesterday was a dream, that I didn’t really complete an entire half-marathon. And then I move, and my legs remind me that it definitely happened, and that this is actually, totally, really my very real life. How weird is this? I am a bit stunned still. Which I guess makes sense… Read more »

Day 16: I Did It!

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Start time: 8:00 a.m. Duration: 2:57:28 Overall average: 13:33 Fastest mile: 10:47 I still can’t believe this is real. I keep thinking I will wake up and find it was all a dream. But then I feel the weight of this gorgeous thing in my hands, and I know it really happened.   I really did it. I really finished… Read more »