What is Chronic Inflammation Really?

What is Chronic Inflammation Really?

My introduction to chronic inflammation was rather sudden. For about a month, I had been extremely fatigued. When I started having chest pains, my GP told me to go to the emergency room. While in the emergency room, the attending physician surveyed all the patients,...
A Few Small Repairs

A Few Small Repairs

New home in suburbs. Check. Kid in good school. Check. Pilates business taking off. Check. Kidneys decide to go on strike. Check. …Wait a minute. That is NOT the plan! I am a doer. Maybe that’s because I’m a Midwesterner and I have a reputation to uphold. When I’m not...
How an Orangutan Saved my Summer Vacation

How an Orangutan Saved my Summer Vacation

We had not been on a real, non-working vacation since forever. We had to take our fourteen year-old son somewhere, anywhere, before it was too late. I wanted him to share the experience I had as a child of climbing in an over packed car and driving for days....