After a heart-breaking struggle with infertility, we conceived our identical twin girls through IVF. They suffered from life-threatening Twin-to-Twin Transfusion in-utero, causing me to undergo laser surgery, and 13 weeks of bed rest, 10 of which in the hospital. Every day for a long 13 weeks, we wondered if we would be among the mere 50% of TTTS cases where both babies make it. Our daughters...
I currently live in SoCal and am trying to lose some weight that I regained after going back to school and injuring my back. Prior to these hurting my back, I was an avid exerciser and health nut but bed rest and lack of exercise took their toll on me. Following down that path also came poor eating habits and the weight gain soon followed. Not long thereafter in an unrelated...
I currently work in a very large teaching hospital in the labor and delivery unit, as a registered nurse. I maintain patient privacy by changing details in stories that I post.
I am the mother of a toddler boy who happens to have Down syndrome. My blog is a place where I document Logan's life and keep our friends and family updated on the rest of my family as well.
Rest Ministries, Inc. began in 1996 and became a 501(c)[3] in '97. It was founded by Lisa Copen.
Lisa was diagnosed a few years earlier with rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 24 and life had changed dramatically. She searched for some time, but was unable to locate the kind of Christian support that she desired to help her along this unexpected detour of chronic illness.
Surely she couldn't...
I am a middle-aged guy in the process of creating the rest of my life. I am very committed to not getting sucked into the historical/cultural conversation of what it means to grow older and what is and isn't possible as we age. I want the rest of my life to be more interesting, more challenging and more fulfilling than anytime in my past - and my past has been terrific.
I have had a pretty good...
I’m just a girl who wants to get healthy, find my happy weight, develop a great relationship with food, and love my body for what it is, and what it can do for me. This blog is about my quest to find balance between healthy eating, healthy exercising, healthy relationships, yummy food and my sanity.
I love a lot of things. My family, my husband, my friends, my dog, a good book, a nice...
