The Sage Soapbox

The doctors couldn’t help me, so I had to help myself. It took four years for me to begin the process. This is a picture of our children, Zach and Callie at ages 2 and 4 when it all began. I was so happy to become the stay-at-home mom that I had longed to be and when we moved to PA in late 1997, my dream came true! I loved being at home with them. We had just moved into a beautiful home in Butler, PA and I decided to plant lots of flowers in the yard. This required lots of mu

Back in the old days, (1997) the doctors could not figure out what was wrong with me. I had a lot of chronic pain that wasn’t localized. It moved around from my arms, legs, hips and back. There wasn’t such thing as Fibromyalgia back then, or my doctors had not heard of it. As a result, they called it different things, like Restless Leg, Tennis Elbow, Carpool Tunnel Syndrome, TMJ and Depression. I took an anti-depression, anti-anxiety medicine, which made me void of personalit