HELP AGAIN, PLEASE!

VERY IMPORTANT: CAN ANYONE WITH $1 GO TO MY BLOG AND TRY THE DESTOP VERSION. YOU CAN DONATE TO ME AND I NEED IT TO MAKE IT THROUGH UNTIL MY ADVERTISING IS UP AND RUNNING. TIA!
(THIS IS SO SO HARD ON ME. AND NOW I HAVE A CANCER SCARE TO BOOT. :(

HELP

I NEED ALL THE RAINBOWS I CAN GET! Please send them. Prayers, hope, any love appreciated I’m scared.

Another Manic Monday!

I can't wait to sit down and write more, but it's bill-paying day. My disability $ comes in on the third of every month and then I scramble to pay all the bills and then no more $ for a month. But that's all about to change, I know it. My blogging career is hopefully taking off and my partner just landed a permanent full time job in his chosen field. Part of today's agenda will be looking at houses to rent! Instead of this tiny apartment! :) :) :) Happy Monday!

Bipolar Life

I'm hoping that lots of people who have Bipolar Disorder of any type will end up here. I have been through so much including inpatient psych stays and being admitted for medical problems under what I call a "soft psych hold". I hope you ended up here and can use my experience as a guide to help yourself, or to share your experiences with me. (in the form of comments on this blog or emailing me at ereanderson@gmail.com) I will do my best to see what you send me and send a personal reply.
The worst thing that happened to me in my most recent admission was that an RN tried to draw my blood in the middle of the night and HIT A NERVE in my arm. She was even using a butterfly needle. it hurt so much not just where she was poking but in my shoulder as well. I couldn't straighten my arm for a couple of days afterwards. (Or maybe longer...I was too manic to remember it all perfectly.) I will also say this-I'm a former RN turned patient with a photographic memory. So you can believe my memories are fairly intact. I also have an amazing partner who is willing to help fill in the details...but he has to sleep some time and wasn't in the room for the nerve poke. I of course told him all about it a couple hours after it happened but it has given me a needle phobia like you would not believe. And I have a surgery coming up. If they get my IV in without me being doped up on Xanax I'd be amazed. But anyway...love to all my fellow Bipolar humans. I see you, I love you for making it this far, and you are not alone.

Gasteroparesis

I can't wait to blog about how my Gasteroparesis is doing. (or GP for short) It's probably the diagnosis that impacts my life the most, or maybe second only to Bipolar Type II. But after seeing a specialist at Northwestern last January, I'm EATING AGAIN! I was inches away from getting a feeding tube for a whole year. My GI docs would ask at every appointment if I was wanting a tube or ready for one. I feel so incredibly lucky and I'd love to share all this with you because even if one GP-er has their life saved like mine was it will all be worth it.

My first piece of advice to anyone with GP or chronic medical conditions in general-save as much $ as you can. As much as I love you for coming here, please don't reach into your own pocket for me and think very carefully about donating to a fellow ill person. You *will* be sick enough (if you live in the US especially) to need medical bill help. It's guaranteed until we have a different President. In fact, a book I'd like to write if I had the time is called "How to Bust Trump". But instead all I had time for today was having Chris take me to my favorite park (where I saw these somehow adorable beer bottle tops) and a couple hours of Zelda. 😊

Google AdSense

Yes, I'm still awake, still here, posting plenty of content all over this blog (and AlwaysAmbidextrous.blogspot.com) and sharing each post in all my social media platforms. But I've been waiting what feels like forever to hear whether I qualify to have ads on my blog to start getting paid to write. Putting ads on this page and being paid to do what I love would be the best job on earth for me. And I think I have a lot to say and a lot of good advice for others.

Profession: Blogger!

Profession: Blogger!
This pie chart shows how much professional bloggers make. I don't feel like a professional yet because I am in the category of the 17.6% of people who make nothing. I have not been paid even a dollar to blog yet from any monetizing source but I have high hopes! I've wanted nothing more than to be paid to sit down and write since I became an adult and started having so darn much to say and not enough time to say it! I'm going to go to sleep again soon but I do hope that one person donates to PayPal so I can wake up and call myself a "real" writer. :)
And my overall page views are only 17,000 since I started this 11 years ago...so yes, in terms of traffic...I've got a long way to go. That's why even just clicking on my blog and being here can help me and part of why I appreciate you all so much.