As part of our efforts to live simply and more naturally, we’ve improved our diet, eliminated household chemicals, and now have a new all natural mattress. What’s wrong with a normal spring mattress? Formaldehyde and boric acid are ingredients in the flame retardant coatings, the synthetic material doesn’t breathe, and the springs create pressure points. These [...]
So, still catching you up to present day, we’re back in May after my graduation. To celebrate, I had my wisdom teeth removed. All four. At the same time. It only took an hour, but I am still healing to this day! This was my first surgery and the anesthesia was a new experience–I can [...]
I recently filled out a questionnaire for a rheumatoid arthritis research study in which they asked questions about my current physical mobility. I didn’t think much of the questions until one of them sparked my memories of what my mobility used to be like. It almost took my breath away remembering how much pain I [...]
Well, here I am 8 months after our first post on our raw food experiment; one dose LESS of methotrexate (*loud cheering*) and 21 pounds lighter. This “science experiment” was to see if eating fresh, unprocessed, uncooked food could cleanse and heal my body’s cells enough that they could start to heal my rheumatoid arthritis. It is [...]
Remember that old episode of Seinfeld where George’s wallet explodes and all his receipts go flying? That’s how bad my wallet was getting. So for Christmas Samantha bought me an ALL-ETT wallet. It is made out of sail cloth and is incredibly flat! This photo shows the flat wallet without anything in it compared to [...]
This may fall under the category of “Too Much Information,” but hey, what else are blogs for? I was just so happy about this I wanted to share it with everyone! I (Ryan) finally got my weight under 200 pounds for the first time in probably about eight years. I put on a good 15-20 [...]
…because I had the perfect costume! My face looked like Two-Face from Batman because of impetigo (*gross*). This is a bacterial skin infection caused by staph or strep and is usually found in children, but with my compromised immune system I’m more susceptible to infection, no matter what kind. It started out as hives; I [...]