Author Archives: thesickgirlwiththedog

So it’s almost blizzard conditions here. Which means my head hurt. It never fails that storms set me off. The downside to this is that I’m at work and I used all my Benadryll on Thanksgiving so I have none to take today since I’m waiting on the doctor to send in a prescription. SoContinue reading “The Snow”

This picture means the world to me. Prior to this picture I was laying on the bathroom floor in some of the worst pain I have ever experienced. My mother and I call them my ‘episodes’. It’s really just my colon being an asshole. I have heard it compared to the pain of childbirth andContinue reading “An Episode”

I was a fairly healthy kid. I had ankles that tended to roll often but my health was good. For the first 14ish years of my life the biggest thing I had been through medically was a dog bite. Then I went to Europe and got some foreign bug… or so the doctors thought forContinue reading “The Background Story”

Everyone thinks they have the best dog in the world- none are wrong…. …But I have the best. I was desperate for a best friend that I didn’t have to fake a smile with. I begged my mother to let me get a dog. She was not on board. Enter Leinie or actually his nameContinue reading “About the Dog”

My mom would be disappointed that I call myself the sick girl. But, that’s how I think of me. I don’t remember the last time I was healthy for any amount of time. People look at me and see my diseases and struggles. I dream of the day that I don’t have to pack aContinue reading “Introducing the Sick Girl”