When my son’s father and I decided on our son’s name we decided that we had to incorporate some family into it. We are both family oriented and both felt a certain connection to our paternal grandfathers. Now a while back when I was a teenager I told my grandfather…
Category: Random Thoughts
The Naked Surgical Truth: The J-Pouch Chapter
Well hello again everyone!! It’s been about a week now since I received my new improved colon, also known as Ileal-pouch but more commonly known as the J-Pouch. You might be wondering how I feel…well, to be perfectly bluntly honest, I feel horrible! This shit HURTS! Like for real, Ouch!…
New Life, New Attitude…New Colon
Tomorrow morning is the big day. Tomorrow I will have surgery number 2 out of 3 where I will become the new proud owner of a ileopouch, more commonly known on the street as a J-Pouch. Basically I gets a new colon as a belated birthday present. I’m that much…
From One Mother To Another…
Dearest Tameka Foster Raymond, I do not know you. We’ve met a couple of times at different occasions. Shared laughs over silly stories being told by mutual acquaintances. But never long enough to get to know one another or really form opinions about each other. But you are my sister in motherhood….
You’ve Stopped Fighting…Your Kid Still Hurts
Yesterday morning, my son out of the blue asked me when we were going home. I told him we were home. He said, “No Mommy. I wanna go home. Home in Texas.” I told him we don’t have a home in Texas anymore, that this new place here in California…
Not Your Ordinary Cornerstore
Most of you know about my love affair with food by how much I write about it…or if you know me, how much of it I consume! LOL! Food to me is more than fuel. But at the end of the day it is fuel and that’s something we forget…