Author Archives: caitlingriess22

What an awful Monday. This morning was fine but then I had a slight fender bender this afternoon and it just made everything harder the rest of the day. Emotionally I was spend and mentally I was trying to juggle everything still going on for the rest of the day. And because of today andContinue reading “Tired of All the Hard and the Heavy”

I never thought I would be praying for healing for myself. I have always prayed for other people’s healing – grandparent’s cancer and heart surgery, aunt’s surgeries, more grandparent cancer, grandma’s sickness, mom’s nerve problems, and more that I can’t think of. But at the Brandon Lake concert Thursday night, it was my healing thatContinue reading “Healing”

Today the major symptom is brain fog. Could it be head cold or something else? Sure, it could It’s still not fun to deal with. I feel tired and out of it but slept good last night, at least I thought. This morning at the daycare was not great so that probably doesn’t help. KidsContinue reading “Brain Fog”

It is Wednesday October 23rd almost 2pm. And today has been great so far! I’m honestly a little scared to say that because of how hard things have been lately but I also want to document the good days. Maybe it was it because of the seven hours of sleep I got last night. MaybeContinue reading “Thank You God”

Every day has its own ups and downs. Sometimes the struggles are the same thing from the day before or a week ago or they are completely different.  Today the struggle is exhaustion or maybe it’s fatigue, honestly I don’t really know the difference. And today this is all that I can write because theContinue reading “Ups and Downs”

Crying on the bathroom floor finally writing out what has been stuck in my heart, and now my head, most of the week.  Waking up and living with this disease, or maybe multiple diseases, and then having to wait another 2 months is nothing, right?  Wrong. Finally probably knowing what is causing a lot, butContinue reading “The Waiting”

Why am I blogging, you may wonder? I have always loved writing and a close friend, you know who you are, suggested I start blogging or share my health struggles on social media so it could encourage others too. So, I just ran with it. My hope is to write for myself, to help meContinue reading “Why a blog”