This Crazy Life

Vacations have always been our thing.  I love to go, I love to see, I love to do.  The girls have definitely been bitten by the travel bug as well.  However, the past 18 months it has been impossible to travel thanks to an eating disorder.  We have finally made progress the past 3ish month…

If you have never been grocery shopping with someone with an active eating disorder, consider yourself lucky.  I had to take my daughter Sunday.  I try to avoid this like the plague.  But she left programming early because she didn’t feel good, so she had to eat dinner at our hotel and I was unprepared…

I’ve read a lot.  People say regularly a bad facility can make the ED worse.  ERC, Dallas, is supposed to be one of the best.  However, it all makes a difference who your team is.  Our team is very, very, very new.  And inexperienced.  Our dietician this week tried to make her AM snack fruit. …

In our Family Therapy Session Wednesday, they told me they want to make Level One as boring as possible.  They are seeing an increase in ED behaviors since stepping down to PHP.  First let me explain their level system.  ERC has 3 levels.  Each level you get an increase in privileges.  Some people make it…

My ED daughter had braces.  Until yesterday.  She has not received much orthodontic care since early Fall 2021.  Veritas took her to an orthodontist while she was in their care twice to cut broken wires.  I had mentioned to her maybe we should just take the braces off, and we would redo them when she…

My daughter called the other night very upset.  She had to tell me about what happened at breakfast that morning.  Part of her breakfast was French toast sticks and syrup.  When she was finished, she still had syrup on her plate.  She was told to scrape her plate.  She did not want to be marked…

When we began our time in the ED world one of the most common questions was if my daughter was anxious before this all started.  I always answered that no.  She was your normal, happy, 11-year-old.  If anyone of my kids was anxious it was my oldest daughter.  Now the ED has caused her to…

Our therapist at ERC has talked several times about 1 degree of change.  We find one single positive thing that we can see as a change and build from that.  1 degree added up over time can make big changes.  A friend has told me this is part of EFFT which I know is a…

I’ve heard an eating disorder described as a 100 rung ladder multiple times.  It takes a long time to reach the top.  There’s no magic cure that flies you to the 100th step.  Some people’s ladders are much easier to climb and some much harder, but for everyone it is a process, a typically long…

I know I have mentioned multiple times I have twins.  I am hopeful that when my sick twin is better that being a twin will help.  Her sister will help her integrate back into life.  She will be there as a friend.  She will help her friends be nice to her at a minimum, maybe…