Muskeg Farm

Due to physical illness I am required to find a new balance in my life. Cushing's Disease has stolen much, but I plan to win. Let the games begin...

Thursday, March 5, 2020

Happiness: Riding out the storms

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I’ve been having a hard time.  I mean, but it’s also good like any other time.  And yet it feels  harder. But still...nothing of any ...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

Calories In, Calories Out

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Last week someone was explaining to my son the “calories in, calories out” theory and I had to interject “Unless you have Cushing’s.”  They...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

Cushing's recovery expectations

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I was speaking with a friend yesterday about trying to balance maintaining a Cushing’s patient’s hope for the future, while at the same tim...
Monday, April 2, 2018

Digging deep - Depression, anxiety and suicide.

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I remember after my father died unexpected, people wanted assurances his death wasn't a suicide. It was accidental, but as a 13 year ...
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Sunday, April 1, 2018

Another loss, just as Cushing's Awareness Month starts again.

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Shianne Lombard-Treman passed just three days ago. She had a form of Cushing’s Syndrome caused by adrenal tumors, and I am in remission from...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Community - AIU conference

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A memory from January 6th, 2015 popped up on my facebook feed: " Hooked up for my stim test, sitting in the infusion center at Swedis...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Don't be an ass - Blame and Judgement

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AIU's conference is coming up and Dr. Gillett is speaking on mental health.  I've attended a number of his sessions at Magic Convent...
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Catherine in AK
Catherine is a wife and mother on a mini-farm in the muskegs of Southeast Alaska. She is a stay-at-home, homeschooling mom to 6 "fiesty toads." She has suffered from the cyclic form of Cushing's Disease for more than half of her life, and is now trying to recover from that disease, and it's treatment, which has left her with hypopituitarism.
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