This Crazy Life

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…

We spent almost 17 weeks with Veritas.  We are only in the middle of week 2 with ERC.  I plan on comparing them a few times during this process.  First impressions.  Veritas admittance process was much more organized.  We came in, were sent upstairs to a private room.  We got to say goodbye.  A nurse…

So, my amazing plan I had been contemplating and thinking on went awry.  I had a date I wanted to admit her.  Well, a week really.  A week that would give me summer at home with my other two kids and get them started back to school before I had to move for PHP, again. …

For the average person understanding just exactly how an eating disorder works is really hard.  Even being a caretaker to someone with a severe eating disorder it’s still hard to understand what it feels like.  I wish I could understand so that maybe I could help her more.  If I could really understand what she…