When I come across a new blog or am exploring past posts on a blog I haven’t followed since the start, I always find myself wishing there was a way I could easily see and navigate to all of the posts at once. So that’s all this is.

2019

• Acceptance with a twist(er) – December 16
• That B word…Birthday? Better? Blood?…It’s Blood. And P.S. Plasma, too – August 1
• In memory of a kindred spirit – July 1
• Sunflower Number 38 – June 28
• Graduation Season Periwinkles – June 7
• Saying Things – April 18

2018

• Happy Hopeful New Year – December 31
• Befriending my body – November 4
• Yeah… – October 15
• Waking up – September 17
• Thank you, nurses (Nurses Week) – May 10
• Winters and springs – May 2

2017

• Turning the page – December 31
• Together in the darkness – December 15
• How to find happily ever after by Christmas – November 29
• Chronic illness: fire by fire – October 5
• Care. Feel. Rally. Repeat. – September 30
• A story about a story – August 7
• If I could talk to medical students – July 9
• Bigger than my something – June 5
• Not my finest hour – April 28
• In memory of the kindest man – April 18
• Everything we need we already have – April 6
• When life punches you in the face – February 17

2016

• Keeping the faith – December 31
• Just a quick follow-up – December 28
• Christmas is still Christmas without cards – December 17
• Feelings about feelings – November 28
• Finding my Miracle meets CTV News! – November 20
• People are not potatoes – October 23
• Seven years and the whole truth – October 12
• Let’s make it personal – September 29
• When clouds explode – September 23
• Whatever you CAN do is enough – September 19 (guest post at ChronicBabe)
• If my life were an Olympics hurdles race – August 17
• Still learning – August 2
• Minding my manners – July 9
• Grey’s Anatomy got it wrong – June 17
• The Law of Long Weekends – May 21
• Life, reality and fairy dust – May 6
• The weighting game – April 11
• The year I got a new Easter basket – March 29
• To me from me: six years later – March 10
• The princess and the potato – February 18
• When you know someone who can’t eat – February 12
• When you can’t eat part two: the feels – February 12
• When you can’t eat part one: the facts – February 11
• It’s not you, it’s my illness – January 31
• One with the trees – January 20

2015

• Happy New Year Tutu You – December 31
• Health and happiness and peanut butter – December 14
• Patient’s orders – November 28
• The mystery of the missing hair – November 19
• Dear new doctor – October 30
• Six years sick: I would rather have a dragon – October 10
• Faces of invisible illness – October 2
• Out came the snowman sweater – September 10
• Why I’m celebrating my incurable diagnosis – August 26
• Hugs from a cloud with a touch of life perspective – August 11
• How I found my new career, take two – July 22
• Socks and sandals…oh, and empathy, too – July 5
• Have wheels will travel – June 15
• Dysautonom-a-what? – June 15
• You’re doing a good job – June 5
• The tale of Catherine and the new phone – May 28
• We don’t like to hear that we look good. Here’s why – May 19
• Room for reality – April 30
• Everyday advocates – April 19
• Let’s be more like babies – April 14
• Pity parties, boxing gloves and being an advocate – March 27
• Dear…? – March 12
• Tis better to have laughed to the point of nausea – February 27
• My actual adventure with acupuncture – February 23
• A day in the life part two: the rest of it – February 12
• A day in the life part one: Feeding Tube 101 – February 11
• Mixed signals – February 1
• Time out for real life – January 21
• And the word for January is… – January 14

2014

• The not worst year of my life – December 30
• Here’s to my village – December 17
• Tomorrow will be better – December 1
• Clean hair – November 4
• Just one thing – November 1
• How I found my new career – October 20
• Happy Spooniversary to me! – October 11
• Just another night at the circus – October 8
• For worse and for better – October 4
• A week with my alter-ego – September 13
• Invisible Illness Awareness: My 30 things – September 8
• It’s all about the joy – September 1
• AE is the new A – August 20
• Eggs, anyone? – August 6
• 1,2 cha cha cha – July 22
• News of the day – July 3
• Lost and found – June 13
• A different kind of fix – June 4
• Maybe Taylor Swift wasn’t lying to me after all – May 22
• A girl and her backpack – May 8
• Life lessons from the Apple Store – April 23
• Embracing what is – April 14
• Give change a chance – April 3
• Being human and making mistakes – March 26
• Let’s talk about the weather – March 23
• Fun at the pharmacy – March 13
• You can’t always get what you want – March 11
• My almost adventure with acupuncture – March 6
• Why I needed my illness – March 4
• It all comes out in the wash – February 27
• Carefulcatherine…a little more about me – February 23
• Finding my miracle…and finding the name of this blog – February 20