punch death in the face

"When death captures me, he will feel my fist on his face." (The Book Thief)

This is the attitude I want to have about living - to live so hard that I would punch death in the face if it dared to try and show up. :)

Blog schedule

New blog schedule and possibly new layout coming Monday. I'll be on vacation for a week and I'll have time to plan new posts and topics out. First post will be my story so you can get to know me better. :)

See you Monday!

Second post the first

This probably should have been my first post: to explain what is Life on Di.

Sometimes people joke that they aren't on "Die"alysis, because they are alive. So they are therefore on "Life"alysis.

I know the medical terminology for "di," meaning "through, or across". And I know there are people out there who hate thenterm Lifealysis. I don't have an opinion, but I wanted to make a bit of a play on words. This is a life, and thanks to dialysis I am here to live it.

How WELL do I live it? That is another matter entirely. And that is something I am working on.  Next blog post: food.  That might be a long post!

Insomnia

I'm not sure if insomnia loves me or if I love it. I know I'm a night owl, but this late night stuff alllll the time is messing with how I feel during the day.  Thankfully Heartburn didn't tag along tonight, too!

Ahhh perhaps this is one of the "joys" of Life on D.

Dialysis is of course a nasty beast, but my purpose in writing is to show that yes, it can be managed; no, life does not end; and yes, there will be days of pain, of exhaustion, of frustration. But you CAN get through it, and you can not only survive, but thrive.

That is my journey at the moment:  learning how to thrive. How to accept that this is part of my identity and I'm OK. This part will probably take awhile because I have closed myself off, somewhat, from life around me.  Which is TOTALLY against my extroverted nature.

So I plan to write about the everyday, the mundane, food, dieting, exercise, travel, trials, love, faith and so on and so forth. I may cry. I will try to be funny. And hopefully I will be joined in this writing by a friend and this little blog will turn into a book (and a recipe book, and a speaking tour...) that gives us enough money to retire. ;)

So come along,  questions and comments are welcome!!

And once we're a little further down the road, we'll get savvy and get going on Twitter and Facebook, and hey, maybe even Youtube!! :)