Hello and thanks for visiting my blog!
I’m Tracey. I’m 35 and divorced with 3 wonderful kiddos. I work as an RN 12 hour night shifts in an emergency room. I live in New England, USA.
I started this blog as an outlet for the stress that came along with an undiagnosed illness and it has progressed from there. I also like to give updates on my spiritual journey. I am one of those that struggles daily with my relationship with God. I know that He exists and that he gave his Son for me but I’m just not one of those people that being spiritual comes naturally for. I’m hoping that journaling my journey with Him will help with that.
I love comments, notes or suggestions so feel free to leave any. Thanks for reading and have a blessed day!
your nursing blogs are so funny. Im not in the medical profession but I believe it would help alot of people understand how tough your job is if they read that. I worked with the general public as a manager in a supermarket and you are right the general public are a tough bunch to please!
Keep blogging and I hope you don’t mind me sending these messages to you.
Rachel
Across the pond xxx
Rachel,
I don’t mind the comments at all!! Keep them coming hon!! They are quite uplifting.
Hi I also have to have the iron infusion on friday any tips you can give me I know mine is going to be for 8 weeks..Thanks Sabrina
Hi,
Love your blog.
Was wondering if you ever started feeling any better after getting some iron in you. I found out 2 months ago, after 4 years of suffering, that my ferritin was less than 1 and I was also a little anemic. 9 doctors and nobody ever checked the ferritin until now. Everybody thought I was a hypochindriac and only offered me antidepressants. Grrrrrrrrrrrr
I’ve been taking Integra ( a prescription iron pill ) and it came up to 10, but I still feel like crap. Maybe 10% better…but still crap.
Anyhoooooo…..enjoyed your blog and was just wondering if you feel any better. I sure hope so. you’ve been through so much.
( BTW….I am a fan of Bring The Rain, and Pete Wilson’s blog, too. I found them via Beth Moore’s blog at Living Proof Ministries
Tracey, I like you openness about you physical and spiritual struggles. I’m a 64 year old minister and program director for a nonprofit organization that works with violent offenders. My life too seems to be one challenge after another with both spiritual and physical and spiritual struggles. At 27 I was diagnosed with terminal cancer, but supprised everyone by surviving, as a minister was excommunicated from my denomination because I advocated for equal standing for women and people who were divorced and remarried. But I am glad to be alive, still a minister, and working with some of the most marginalized groups in society. Thanks for the opportunity to know about you and to share some of my life.
Hi Robert,
Thanks for the comment! Like I had said I started this as an outlet for my struggles and it has mostly turned out as an outlet for the physical struggles!! I really need to get back to Him and my spiritual journey. I haven’t updated on that in awhile!!
Kudos to you on surviving terminal cancer! That was quite the physical struggle I’m sure! And then being excommunicated! Are you a minister of a different denomination now? I’d love to email about prayer and how to be more effective at it if you are interested. I just cannot seem to get a handle on how to do it effectively. I just feel dumb and like I’m talking to myself instead of having a “conversation”.
I think the work you do is wonderful too!
Hi,
Came across your blog as I was looking for more information about iron infusion, which I am scheduled to have next week and quite scared about it.
I love reading your stuff…. Feel a bit the same way about things I must say…
So thanks !!
I came across your blog, my husband is getting an iron infusion today. he’s been strugling with keeping his iron levels at a normal leve, he’s had blood transfusions and a bunch of tests to see if he’s bleeding from anywhere but have not found anything, this has been going on for about 7 months, can you let me know how things have turned out for you? i will keeep reading your page so maybe ill see how things are currently. my husband is weak, he’s always pale and out of breath. we have two young girls one who was born just days before he ended up in the emergency room for chronic anemia. anyway, im so happyt o have found your blog. take care and hope that you are well these days. love and light, liz
Hi Liz,
Sorry I haven’t been blogging much so didn’t see this comment till today. I’m sorry to hear about your hubby’s struggles. I hope he is doing better now. It’s hard to have a family to take care of when you feel this way. As to me, I’m doing MUCH better. Haven’t had to have an iron infusion since the last time one is posted on here. Still see the hematologist about every 6 months now but the last 2 visits have been great.
Tracey
Tracey, I am so very glad you started the iron infusion blog–and that I found it. For over 3 years now, I have been thinking I was “a one of a kind” because no one I knew had experienced this problem. When I found your blog, I was in Mexico and feeling very down, indeed, about no one knowing what was going on with me. I shouted at my husband, “I’m not alone; there are more people like me.” It really made a difference just knowing that. At that point, I had already started Floradix and it seemed to be making a difference, but I still felt like a weird one-of-a-kind. Now, with the visit to the Mayo Clinic and being told “we see this problem all the time,” I know there are a lot of us, but it was finding your blog that really helped me know I wasn’t alone. Thanks, again.
Hi Pat,
Glad to hear that I helped with that “one of a kind” feeling. That is part of why I blog (when I finally get around to it) so that others know that they aren’t alone, along with the fact that it is a stress releiver for me. I hope ou are starting to feel better and I’m quite glad that the Mayo Clinic is helping you out!
Tracey
Dear Tracy,
My name is Shirelle and I’m a twenty year old Public Health student at the University of Texas. I was diagnosed with Graves my senior year of high school, which was probably the worst year of my life, when I wasn’t feeling completely insane, I was sleeping or loosing my hair. My weight dropped from 140 to 120 and then all the way to 160 in one month. Its been a few years since then, and my thyroid is “mostly” regulated, but yet I still feel chronic pain and fatigue. A few weeks ago they checked my iron and it was at 7, so since then i’ve had 4 iron infusions. I was checked for Celiac’s disease, I came back positive for the antibodies, but negative for the biopsy. The list of similarities between your medical history and mine goes on…Reading your blog kind of feels like reading a bit of my own life, since we’ve gone through so many of the same medical struggles, and it helps me so much to know that someone else has struggled through this. Thank you so much for writing. And about the praying thing, through my years of struggling to walk with the Lord, i’ve realized that the only way to start praying is to just start talking, and the more you pray, the easier it is. He loves to hear your voice calling out to him!
From one sickie to another,
Shirelle
Hi Shirelle,
So what are they going to do about the Celiac? Are you going wheat free? I am likely about to but for different reasons (gonna blog on that soon). Like I said in the above comments my iron has been stable for awhile now so don’t need to for that reason. Thanks for writing and for the comments about praying. Still working on that one
Tracey,
I for over 3 years now (at the tender age of just 20) have suffered along such similar things as you it’s scary in the way of seeking answers to my constant illness. You have inspired me to start actually posting my journals on my blog so much I took down my personal blog in ready to make way for a more directed blog on exactly this! I am a devote christian, ministry leader and worship musician and am studying at preachers school but have for so long struggled to come to terms with MY healing, and why I can believe and pray for others and God will answer my prayers for them and heal them right before my eyes yet not heal me. So I really do feel we are similar in more ways than one!
It has been almost 4 years and I am yet to have an EXACT diagnosis, but have been given things like fibromyalgia, endometriosis, cealiacs and a severe case of anemia to go with for now. I take a handful of meds each day, regularly receive venofer injections or iron IV’s and bloods.
I am so excited I stumbled upon your blog and will continue to read each and every post of yours for inspiration and strength
IF you like, I can give you my email address so we can chat sometime!
Kasanndra!
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