u/Silent_Medicine1798

I’ll go first: I find that if I really ground myself back in the present moment, actually touch grass, I make a better transition.

I am writing a narrative memoir about my two years as the primary caregiver to my child as she went through life threatening illness and developed a debilitating pain syndrome. The writing is hard - every time I write I am reentering the blast radius.

What I have found is that I am able to come back to today better if I take a few minutes to explore the happy, joyful and relatively healthy version that my daughter is today versus then, it helps.

I just happened across an AMA of a young woman who tripped on a root while hiking and danced her femoral artery, resulting in the ischemic death of her leg and amputation at the hip. The damaged resulted in chronic osteomyelitis of the pelvis.

I am an FM doctor and would love to hear from those who have experience in such radical surgeries.

We need to get our septic tank pumped - who do you love to do this?