Author Archives: caitlingriess22

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”

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”