Welcome back to my hallo-blog friends! A daily blog post for the month of October!! I'm also celebrating my 5 year blogaversary and can't wait to share which post comes next in my countdown of the most popular blog posts of all time.
Today's post was published in April of 2018 and it's all about the art of grief. Grief is something every one of us humans, and many animals, experience during our lifetime on this planet. Not just a grief for loosing a friend or loved one but there's other types of grief as well. Many of my posts this year have mentioned the issue with grief we are having during the pandemic. Grief for our old way of life and our hopes and dreams. Greif over our jobs and financial stability. Then there's the obvious grief that millions of us are experience due to losing a loved one to Covid-19. However, to me anyways, the worst type of grief is over a loss of a pet. That's what I speak about in this post.
Re-visiting this post about how I was preparing for Peanut's eventual passing from feline kidney disease really helped me to see the benefit of preparing for life's inevitable tragedies. I knew at some point she would pass on. I knew it would be sooner than later after her diagnoses was found. So what I did was purchase some books on grief and do a deep dive into what I could do to make it as easy on myself, and her, as possible. I did so much anticipatory grief research that I really feel like I benefited from it. I have a wonderful pet journal that I wrote in before, during and after her passing and it's still so valuable to me and nice to look at when I want to feel close to her. Many of you may remember me mentioning a ring I had made with her cremains and it's so beautiful that I proudly wear it everyday. In this blog post I also mentioned my future plans to have a ring made and it's nice to see that I've followed through on that. I hope that re-visiting these topics has or will help you in any similar situation you may find yourself in.
Back to my topic of yesterday's cystic acne issues, (which, by the way, thank you so much for letting me vent and the to the people who always reach out to me after reading about any hardships I'm facing THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! It feels so good to connect!) I wanted to report that my awesome husband went to our pharmacy to pick up my meds that the dermatologist ordered, as there was no way I was putting a mask back on over my itchy, red, sore and flakey skin to run to the store again, and insurance covered both the antibiotic pills and the topical cream! Hooray! I thought for sure I would be going through a whole process of ordering from a prescription mail service, yadda yadda yaddda. So our insurance must have pulled some kind of miracle for me to get these meds so quickly so that I can give myself some relief as soon as possible. However, if you are still looking for help with how to pay for prescriptions, please do DM me in any capacity because I have many tips and tricks up my sleeve that I've collected over the years. They don't call me "Drugstore Cowgirl" for nothing! It felt so good to have something go right in the medical care part of my life as I've had some setbacks recently, that I still need to blog about and hash out with you guys but just not ready yet.
I love to leave on a happy note: I'm so proud to announce that my lindsayloomis.com facebook page has reached over a 1,000 followers! This is a wonderful sign for anyone hoping for any kind of virtual connection that can support those suffering with mental illness! I realize how toxic the land of facebook, or any social media, can be. Believe me. It can be a real struggle sometimes. That's why I escape to this blog, and to you guys, for some much needed relief. but these days facebook can be a necessary evil as the access it gives us to reaching others cannot be ignored. I celebrate this huge number milestone at a time when I'm also realizing how great of a miracle I have with making this blog progress over the last 5 years. I have another call to action for you all so that I can reach even more of you and that's to follow my instagram (https://www.instagram.com/lindsayloomis/). There's a mad science of algorithms and magic hashtags that I'll never be able to figure out and as hard as I've worked to reach other's with this blog and facebook, the same hard work doesn't pay off on instagram and I've been stagnant at just under 800 followers for over a year. Here's the reason why I am trying to get more people to follow me on insta: if you get enough followers you are allowed access to give others a "swipe up" link via your instagram stories and that gives much quicker and easier access to my blog posts to or any other important links I'm trying to share. As of right now, I have no way of giving out a clickable link for NAMI resources, support groups, or any other clickable links that are important for other's to find easily. However those who have just a couple hundred more followers on their accounts are allowed to share accessible links for whatever they choose. To those of you who might not get what I'm saying, it's all good because if you're reading this I'm just happy that you found me this way and there's nothing more I need you to do, but if you do have an instagram account or know someone else who does, please do share my account so that I can have the ability to reach out to more. So if you see me shamelessly plugging my account and asking for followers that's why. I'm not trying to sell anything or be a an "influencer", lol, but I'm so inspired by what we have created that I can't help but to want more. You guys are so amazing and I'm so happy with this family we have created. Thank you so much for being here with me. I'm very much looking forward to seeing you every day back here for the second half of my Hallo-blog month!
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