Health and Recovery at Your Own Pace · H4-10
Health and Recovery at Your Own Pace · H4-10
How I Write About Health
Lived experience, official sources when I use them, and a clear line that none of this is medical advice.
This is the trust page. I want it to be plain.
I write about health from lived experience. When I use official information, heat guidance, a labeling rule, a public produce list, I say where it came from. I leave treatment plans to clinicians. Nothing on this site is medical advice, and nothing here is a before-and-after I am trying to sell.
If you have a health condition, including a stroke, recovery, trigeminal neuralgia, cancer, or a question about heat, walking, fatigue, food, or exercise, talk with your own doctor or therapist. Please do not change your care because of something you read here.
On March 14, 2016, I had a massive stroke. I spent a month in the hospital and a year in outpatient recovery. I relearned to walk, to see, and to make my voice resonate. I give credit for that to my family and to the medical team who stayed with the work. Some of what I lost never fully came back. My balance isn't what it was, and my body doesn't handle heat the way it used to. I also live with trigeminal neuralgia.
That is the public spine of my story, and I tell it again in After the Stroke, Life Had to Slow Down. A slower day, a simpler meal, a daily loaf, or Pilates are parts of how I live. They're not a prescription.
My mom, Terrilyn Miller, has used food to fight cancer. That story is hers to tell, in her words, when she is ready. Her author page stays short until then. I will not publish her contact details.
I also write about accessible family travel at Travel at My Pace and about our Japan trips at Japan at My Pace. Those sites use the same rule: lived experience, official facts when they are used, and a clear line that none of it is medical advice.
The long view, about ten years later, is in What Recovery Looks Like Years Later. If you want the house in the heat, start with Heat, Balance, and a Slower Day. If you want the kitchen, start with What I Mean by Eating Well at Home.
Not medical advice and not financial advice. Personal experience, plus official public sources where they're cited.