Zebra Pig

  • Pressure Canner Borscht Recipe

    Chicken Bone Stock Rather then making your own bone stock, you can buy 5 quarts of premade bone stock. Ingregients Directions Read ⇢

  • Of No Consequence

    “Sometimes [things will] seem, by contrast, inconsequential, and you’ll wonder what business they have in [our lives]…Think of these fragments as the shavings off a carpenter’s floor, swept together after some great work has been made. The master piece has been taken from the workshop, but what might we learn… Read ⇢

  • No-Thing-ness

    Being somebody or something is very important in our culture, some times to the point of being all consuming. It is a major paradigm. A person’s worth in society is determined by what they have accomplished. While there is value and joy that comes from accomplishment, I want to suggest… Read ⇢

  • The Narrative

    Who we are is the story we tell ourselves. When we look back over our life events we paint those events into the context of the story we believe we are living and the character that we think we are. When a traumatic event happens to us, we can choose… Read ⇢

  • Live. Love. Laugh. Play.

    Live! Take time to experience the world around you. Be mindful of yourself and stay present in the moment. Living is now. We have a finite amount of time to spend and there is no earning any more. If we hold too tightly onto the past, we let it cloud… Read ⇢

  • Friendship Illusions

    One things about the internet, is that it creates an illusionary world that is easy to believe in. It tells us about all the amazing adventures, great times and tons of friends that other people are having while we are failing to achieve the same. There is a very real… Read ⇢

  • 032621-1153: Jump

    There are times,that we are left to the winds. Times,we must jumpand have faith;that we will fly rather then fall. Read ⇢

  • Struggling to Find Balance

    At the heart of managing any chronic illness is finding balance in our lives. There are never any perfect, risk free solutions to the problems we face. Thus we have to constantly weigh risks vs benefits of treatments and quality vs quantity of life. Read ⇢

  • Navigating Denial

    When diagnosed with a chronic illness or disorder, many complex things happen in your life. There is the moment when you have to decide who you disclose the diagnosis to and who you keep it from. This is a very personal and often complex decision filled with emotional landmines. So,… 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.