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..."Darkness Into Light" showed me that I am indeed not alone or the only one struggling right now....

...Outdoors, light is not as hard. I revisit my previous observation. We are electrically circuited to handle the outside light spectrum....

...By the way, right before bed is not the best time to start a conversation. Trust me, I know! So, here’s where that pesky device might come back....

...From other perspectives, they are about not spending money to do the right thing or about not wanting to make the effort to do the right thing....

...I usually place them below my hands so my fingers can rest comfortably or under my ankles/knees....

...I need the right kind of white noise, temperature, pillow, complete darkness if possible - the list goes on and on....

...With determination, now: left, right. Left, right, left, right, left. Left. Left … left, right, left....

...You need to not only find the right doctor, you need to be the right patient....

...It can literally take over your life, interrupting and disrupting any normalcy you might want to have in your day to day life.  ...

...And I have two bad ankles and a stubbornly painful right foot....

...And I thought, “Oh, right, I have arthritis.”...

...Unexpectedly, she was right! The lab results showed I have elevated anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide levels, indicative of RA....

...I am going to wake up during the night. I am going to wake up multiple times during the night....

...But it turns out just 3 bones form the ankle joint. Eight tendons hold them all together and provide flexibility, along with a bunch of ligaments....

...After I turned 40, my body decided to hang on, tenaciously, to every single extra pound, and if I forced it to let go of them, it just added them...

...Just like parenting in general, there is no right or wrong way to approach this task....

...In the 15 months he’s been treating me, he’s never stopped trying to find the right combination of medications, and I’m starting to think he may have found...

...My "bad," damaged, right wrist is also throbbing uncharacteristically....

...Eventually, I was able to have the balloon dilation to open the sinuses and nasal passages, a slight scraping and some other procedures which I don’t remember...