Zebra Pig

  • 021314-0552

    I am floating out here.I cannot hold on this for ever.  There is this place inside of me that I cannot take you. A place that I cannot take anyone. If you came here, you would never come back to me. So, let me go. Let me go. I have… Read ⇢

  • 061121

    Hello Zebras and Spoonies! Thanks for stopping by. How has everyone been doing? I hope that life and the universe has been treating you well. I have been doing the travel nursing job for three months now and thus far I am loving the work. But I won’t lie; it’s… Read ⇢

  • What is Neurodiversity?

    I think that this term has created a complex dialogue and like all human conversations, there are a lot of layers to unpack here. I want to talk about what I agree with and what I don’t when it comes to the neurodiversity conversation. Read ⇢

  • War of Rodents…

    Let me start by introducing you to my beaver. No, not that beaver. Pervert. This beaver lives in my head and his name is OCD. Yeah, as in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. There is a lot that people don’t tend to know about beavers. Most know that they are hard working… Read ⇢

  • House Work with Chronic Illness

    When you have chronic illness, you often find that you don’t have as much energy as you’d like to have and you have to start making choices about how and when you are going to use that energy. One challenge that I frequently hear people with chronic illness talking about… Read ⇢

  • Relationship with Food

    There are many things in our lives that can effect the relationship that we have with food. Our culture, our up bringing, food insecurity, trauma, media exposure and our chronic illness. We often don’t think about the ways that chronic illness effects our relationship with food. But it can have… Read ⇢

  • Ramen

    I always thought making my own recipe for ramen would be hard, but it was surprisingly straight forward. I watched a series about ramen and then a tried my hand at it. I think my first recipe came out well! Read ⇢

  • Do No Harm VS Personal Autonomy

    The ethical idea of “do no harm” is one most of us have heard and attribute to the Hippocratic Oath. Medical providers don’t actually abide by this at all, rather something more along the line of “let the benifits always out weight the risks.” Because the truth is that medical… Read ⇢

  • Language Has Power

    The way that we talk about things matters. The language that we use effects the way that we think about and engage with a topic. When we choose to use positive language, we are more likely to think about and engage with the topic in a positive way. Like wise,… Read ⇢

Meet the blog host, Zebra Pig.

A neurodivergent, chronic illness gaming nerd and nurse. Talking about all things in the medical and chronic illness world. Telling my story and giving my perspective.