My teeth have always been my Achilles heel. They were naturally a bit yellow, and one of my front teeth was discolored and crooked thanks to a softball-to-the-face incident. As I grew older, my teeth bothered me more and more, to the point where my parents kindly paid for teeth whitening the summer before I…
Post-Baby Weight
September 24th, 2013Comments: 60
Now that I’m done with that whole Baby-Having phase of my life, I’m working on getting my health and body back. My hyperemesis is gone, although I have some lingering effects in my hair, teeth, and nails. When it was all said and done, I lost twenty-seven pounds, which would normally be a really exciting…
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Sparkling Through The Morning (Sickness)
July 10th, 2013Comments: 4
This post is sponsored by fruitwater ®. Now that I am more than a month out from my pregnancy, enough time has passed that I can reflect back and see some of the good things that came from a less-than-ideal situation. Obviously, James is hands-down the best thing, but there were other, smaller moments that now sparkle…
We Have A Plan
May 29th, 2013Comments: 107
I showed up for my appointment yesterday with Dr. Risky feeling the worst I’ve felt in months. My hyperemesis was raging, my sciatic is pinched, blah blah I felt really awful. Dr. Risky came up to me while I was being weighed, saw that I was down two pounds since last week, and said, “Hey…
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A Dramatic Reenactment
April 23rd, 2013Comments: 63
Back in February, I got an email from a person who works for the TV show The Doctors asking me if I would be interested in talking to them about my hyperemesis gravidarum. I emailed back with answers to the questions, happy for the opportunity to help raise more awareness for HG. Then the producers…
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