Did you wear your blue and yellow? Or are you in yoga pants and a sweatshirt like me? No matter what you’re wearing, today is the day that we celebrate Dr. Harvey Cushing! If you have any questions for me let me know or shoot me an email via the contact section. I’d love to… Continue reading It’s Cushing’s Awareness Day!

I get asked a lot about my Cushing’s experience. I’ve documented my experience extensively on this blog, but I know ten years’ worth of information is a lot to sift through. Overall, the two running themes in my post-Cushing’s journey have been “attitude is everything” and “advocate for yourself.” I know these may sound so… Continue reading Attitude and Advocacy

It’s Cushing’s Awareness month and I will be answering some of your questions regarding Cushing’s or other pituitary and adrenal issues in honor of Dr. Harvey Cushing. Please post your questions in the comment thread below and I will try to answer as many as I can! Thank you!

Wanted to pop over here quickly and share a podcast on Living with Cushing’s and the long-term ramifications of the disease process. So often, we read about pre-diagnosis issues and obstacles but don’t have much to go on regarding the long term. I’m now ten years out and the reason for my silence on here… Continue reading New podcast on Cushing’s

I experienced a small world moment last Friday, and thought I’d share. I was working from home when I received a text from a friend. I’m not sharing names to protect everyone’s privacy. She was at the doctor, and sitting next to a woman who had just been told by her doctor that she had… Continue reading Small world.

I am vulnerable. There, I said it. Vulnerable is not a dirty word. It isn’t something of which I should be ashamed. And yet, here I am, writing this blog entry and trying to make sense of this feeling that is sticking to me like a grimy film that’s discoloring my entire world. Many people… Continue reading Vulnerability.

On this day six years ago, I was given my life back. As you can imagine, for some of us, this is the greatest gift that we can ever receive. My parents flew to Seattle with me. It was their first time there so we tooo a bit of time to sight see, and then… Continue reading 6 years!

I haven’t updated this blog in a really long time, and I apologize for that. I still think of Cushing’s on a daily basis, and I still want to help out the community as best as I can. I’m still in remission, I think. Some days I feel like Cushing’s is back, and then other… Continue reading Update and Apologies