I’m a 63-year old writer, mama, grandmother, and, now that I am living again, a lover of life.
I was a birth worker and midwife for 32 years, retiring in 2012. I’ve written about birth and breastfeeding for most of my adult life, including my 11-year long blog called Navelgazing Midwife, now deleted.
As a midwife, I learned to read and decipher studies, discussing them with doctors, nurses, and midwives to make sure I understood them. This skill serves me well now that I’m writing about GLP-1s, diabetes, and weight loss.
I’ve been fat, then thin(ner) with Fen-Phen in 1996. Made the talk show and news circuit after I was diagnosed with heart valve damage. I got fat again. Then thin again with a Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in 2001. Sick with Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever) for three years (2003-2006), I got fat again.
Now, here I am, on Mounjaro and finding that I really might be able to save my life for good this time by treating my Type 2 Diabetes and losing weight. What came first: the health gain or the weight loss? For me, it doesn’t matter. What does concern me is staying alive and being active for the rest of my days.
Join me on this excursion towards Health at Any Cost. Thanks for being here!