Eating My Cake

I planned to blog every Sunday (or once a week). I didn’t blog Sunday because my husband had to go back east. His father is dying. For many reasons, I am home and he is there, and that’s very hard for me.
It’s a long, sad story that has nothing to do with my blog, except [...]

Below is a transcript of a conversation I just had with Hope. I should tell you that Hope was arrested Sunday for stealing more Coricidin. I knew she was using… unbeknownst to her, one of her friends confided in me that she suspected it, and our mother knew because Hope was barely eating, a sure [...]

Dr. Didnotlisten,
I saw you for an initial evaluation to diagnose probable fibromyalgia. You told me you wanted to see me again in a month, and that you would call me with the lab results. I wanted you to be aware of why you won’t be receiving those results and why I will not follow up [...]

Look, the Olsen twins are really rich young women… but they are also two young women who who were pushed into this business as babies. I have some issues with what their parents did to them. They turned them into a “brand” by the age of 10.
Mary-Kate went through a rather public battle with anorexia [...]

As I’ve mentioned, I’ve gained weight recently. I know this only because I had to take off my engagement ring, which was really horrible and upsetting for me. My ring is special and unique and a symbol of my husband’s love for me, and while I know that it’s just a “thing,” it’s a really [...]

It is not uncommon for people with eating disorders to have perfectionistic tendencies. I remember being in the hospital, as an inpatient. I was 15, and surrounded by mostly anorexic teenage girls. There were a few bulimics, but for some reason, they tended to be older, in their early 20s. The girls who were there [...]

Last Saturday night my baby sister - who is all of sixteen - went to a party. There she drank, smoked weed and did sixteen Coricidin tablets. For those unfamiliar with this growning trend, Coricidin is a cold medication that doesn’t contain stimulants. It’s designed for people with high BP. It does, however, contain DXM, [...]