Sarah Fjord

After working retail for many years I try my best to not be rude to customer service people but that leaves my body the second my health insurance is involved. UPMC can shove it.

Perimenopause was all fun and games until my period showed up 6 days early with knives. No thank you uterus. Not cool.

They are predicting 15-18” of snow this weekend. It’s a no for me but thanks winter.

I applied for a department director job and I already feel queasy about it. I wish I was the kind of person that could just be confident in myself.

I can’t think of anything my cats would hate more than to be scattered at sea. Although maybe their spirits would enjoy watching the fish.

A crocheted Santa gnome sits on the arm of a gray couch. Stitch markers still hold the hat on.

Ok this might be my favorite crocheted Christmas gift this year. I love him so much.

I’ve been watching Parking Wars on YouTube and this was the original true crime series.

I was texting someone about crochet and she said “oh I found this yarn dyer you should check out.” I replied that I already had a yarn person. So that’s the stage of fiber arts I’m in.

I really thought I wasn’t going to have the October slide this year and my body really said psych on 10/29. 🙄

Happy October slide to all who suffer

I’m waiting for them to finish his ultrasound now. He gets so lovey on gabapentin so I guess I should have expected him to love on the vet techs but so rude that he’s not choosing me. 😂😂😂😂

Wesley decided he was going to be independent at the vet and I am so insulted that he’s choosing to be an adult instead of my tiny squishy baby.

Every time my mother calls me she says “it’s your mother” like her picture doesn’t pop up on my phone when she calls.

The best part about summer ending is that it’s cool enough to wear leggings every day.

Wesley has been with the cardiologist for 15 minutes and I’m pretty sure I’m the one in this family that needs to be sedated for these visits.

But like why? If they’re so worried about efficiency why get rid of the most efficient tool doctors have for quick visits?

I’m at the Apple Store because I decided to get an iPad and wanted to look at them in person why have three employees told me someone will help me soon? Why don’t you help me? I know what I want this will be a 35 second transaction.

I’m 11 years strong and still going! Treatments have come a long way in those years and research into ways to repair damage done is looking so promising. I don’t know if that will happen in my lifetime but maybe.

I’m so lucky I’ve been stable since my diagnosis. My case has been very mild once treatment started. It makes me sad that my MS went untreated for almost a decade. Who could I have been if my brain hadn’t been damaged by a decade of MS having free rein?

A lot of MS symptoms can be seemingly unrelated if you don’t know what you’re looking at so I think doctors don’t think to order the telltale MRI. Hear hoofbeats think horses not zebras.

I remember reading about some possible symptoms people with MS would have and it was like watching a puzzle I didn’t know I’d been working on suddenly come together.

When I found out I read a lot of information where people would say they felt relieved because they’d had symptoms for years and doctors would dismiss it especially since MS symptoms tend to go away after awhile (relapsing remitting).

11 years ago I was diagnosed with MS! I had been having symptoms for almost a decade at that point. What I think was my first flare up happened my junior year of college. My face went numb. My doctor insisted it was likely from a migraine. I wasn’t diagnosed until I was 28.

Honestly Pennsylvania weather needs to learn some moderation.

It hasn’t rained in like 3 months and now it’s all rain in the 10 day. So whatever. I hate this place.

I joined the acting troupe because they performed while attached to wires so they’d fly all over the stage and I thought that looked so fun. Then I complained to Rashida Jones about my lack of preparation for the role. So my dreams have been weird, detailed, and long.

Then we decided to just walk back to the start of the coaster because it was taking so long and we wanted to get lunch. We stopped at Rashida Jones’ house because apparently she was also on our little mouse car and lived right there.

Oh but also before I went to Idlewild I joined an acting troupe and totally blew my first performance because they gave me my script right at show time so I didn’t know my cues. So the whole time we were just sitting on the coaster waiting for it to be fixed I was talking about my script.

Since I started lexapro I’ve been having the most vivid dreams. Last night I dreamt I was at Idlewild and on the wild mouse coaster but for some reason it was weaving through the countryside and kept breaking down.

I met my cat 14 years ago. I can’t even believe it. It’s like we’ve been together forever and also no time at all. What a blessing it has been to know her in all the seasons of her life.

I do not appreciate the people my brain is choosing to shake out of my past into my dreams this week.