Author Archives: caitlingriess22

This week has been hard. Not difficult but just a struggle to get through. I have kinda had my period all week. I have had a headache almost every day. I have been extremely exhausted and just not myself. I have not wanted to eat much and I’m eating because I know I need to.Continue reading “Hard”

Something is wrong. Something is really wrong. Not as wrong as last year when I questioned if I was having a heart attack because of gallstone pain but something is still wrong. It is not okay to be this exhausted. I should not be this exhausted on normal days or when I have my period.Continue reading “Not Right”

The past week has been a weird one. Strange health things; maybe unrelated to the big issue but also maybe not. But at the same time it’s been nice to have hope with new beginnings. Hope of new job things. Hope with things getting better for me health wise. Hope for friends who are strugglingContinue reading “Holding On To Hope”

The end of October and November, so far, has been rough. I feel like it’s just been one thing after another, and it kinda has been. But I am grateful and looking for the grace. Grateful for laughter from and with my nanny kids. Grateful for friends who walk the darkness with me and helpContinue reading “Grateful”

Trauma is such a weird thing. There can be physical trauma but there is also emotional trauma. And both have different hard that goes with them. With emotional trauma, you think you’re over something you haven’t thought about in years and then something else not related happens, and wham, it feels just as real againContinue reading “Trauma”

One more month until I HOPEFULLY get a diagnosis that I have been waiting and praying for. But the battle is not over. Like many different diseases, there is no cure for this medical issue, only ways to help manage it. It will be a life long thing I have to deal with. I amContinue reading “One More Month but Also Many More”

The pain of loss is sometimes the same but then other times it hits you like a speeding train and you can’t find your way out of the rubble. You know that life for you or that friend will never be the same as it was before. That person, that family is forever changed, foreverContinue reading “The Pain of Loss”

I should be taking an online course right now but I decided to take a nap and be lazy. I should be cleaning the kitchen and doing laundry but those things can wait a little bit longer. I am giving myself permission to take a break and take it slow today because the past weekContinue reading “Choose You”

It’s hard to need to eat different things than other people. It’s hard to hear that you might have to change your diet again. It’s hard dealing with an invisible and sometimes visible disease. It’s hard to be struggling through it alone. It is hard when you are tired a lot of the time andContinue reading “Sometimes it’s Hard to be Different”

I have never had the energy that I feel like I need to or that others have. I think I used to have the energy but the past few years and even looking back, sometimes in high school, I was and am just always tired with little energy. Lately, I feel like no matter howContinue reading “The Fatigue is Real”