Blog entries by Dainty
Today I walked into a food bank for the first time.
It's taken me three months of homelessness to reach this point. SSI is a little over...
It's been so long since I've wandered over to this part of the web. Life has been ridiculous, but good. I'm still too ill to care for myself even...
I don't know where to even start.
I was so close. I was healing. I was recovering.
Then I had a few hour's notice to find somewhere else to...
So, recovering from being almost completely room-bound and MCS so severe that the only clothing I could tolerate was homemade from unbleached...
It's heartbreaking, how courageously my body tries to heal.
Uproot me from wherever I'm staying on a few hour's notice, resulting in a scramble...
"But wait a minute! I thought you were doing better!"
I am, folks, trust me. You see, my improvement has all happened outwards, expanding away...
Since my last entry, some people have commented trying to help me feel better about how my living conditions really aren't as bad as they seem...
He asked me if I had trouble with hygiene - I burst out crying.
I've been trying to find out whether I can get home health care services from a...
I've been officially diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from the trauma this illness has put me through.
It was validating to hear...
This past week I've connected with someone online who lives in my area. We're both enjoying the potential friendship that's forming, though it's...
I achieved a lot of accomplishments today. Big stuff, in my world. Little stuff, by normal people's standards. But I did it.
I went to the...
In a normal person's life, personal crises are occasional. They happen infrequently enough that one can excuse themselves from work or meetings or...
It wasn't out of laziness or anxiety that I hadn't seen a dentist. For the first few years I was too busy fighting for my life. The last time I'd...
I was having a particularly bad night of insomnia, and someone I'd known around PR for a while was offering to teach me a technique to help it. Of...
I still vividly remember the first few moments my PEM melted away.
It was like magic.
I was shocked; in awe.
6 years of that curse turning my...
Sometimes I feel like my life is consumed with the task of cleaning up after myself.
I was feeling all productive because I'd managed to put...
This past week...
I ordered a bunch of stuff off Amazon that I needed. Like, truly needed. And I sent some of it to the wrong address.
I had a...
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You have to understand, this is me on a bad day. I've been sleep-deprived for weeks and suffering noise exposure as I'm stuck in...