Adventures with Floki

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09/08/2026

That moment you realize you don’t have an acrobat. You have an Acrocat. 😂

Trillium, wanting to hang out with Maia at the river supervised of course, with absolutely zero fear or hesitation, launched herself across the river while we sat there holding our breath and questioning every decision that led to this moment.

Not to worry, she made it just fine. We, however, shortly scooped her up and retreated back to the house before she fully discovered freedom.

Have a great Monday!

09/06/2026

Floki gently reached over and touched Trillium as they sat in the sun, quietly watching their shadows together. No idea what was being said, but apparently it was important.

Sometimes the sweetest conversations don’t need words.

Wedding crafts are exhausting when you’re this helpful. 😂🧡
09/05/2026

Wedding crafts are exhausting when you’re this helpful. 😂🧡

09/05/2026

Well… plot twist. Cold plunging may help a lot of people, but after talking with my provider my fascinatingly complicated body apparently isn't one of them. In my case, cold could exacerbate symptoms and potentially worsen nerve damage.

So the human Popsicle experiment is on hold. The new focus is heat and red light therapy, and figuring out how the hell to afford a sauna or decent red light setup. The idea didn't fail. It's just not right for me, right now.

In the meantime, it's officially wedding crunch time. THREE WEEKS. I'm basically a one-person construction, landscaping and decorating crew by choice because I have an impossible vision in my head that I'm slowly bringing to life with free finds, thrift stores, things from the woods, stuff we already own and anything I can repurpose.

If you are local and have pallets or household items and furniture you are getting rid of, I am your girl.....seriously shoot me a message!

Here's a tiny look at the very beginning of it coming together. Decorating is going to make or break this whole thing, and most of that can't happen yet. So yes, right now some of it looks completely ridiculous. But the pieces are coming together.

I promise there's a vision here and I can't wait to see it come to life! Starting to get SO excited!

On call for the weekend and fingers crossed those call gods let me keep creating! Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Day 5 of cold plunging didn’t happen.Not for a lack of trying. I came home from work already so cold that by the time I ...
09/02/2026

Day 5 of cold plunging didn’t happen.

Not for a lack of trying. I came home from work already so cold that by the time I walked down to the river, I was shivering before my foot even touched the water. That felt like a pretty good sign to think better of it.

The goal here is to see if cold exposure can help, not potentially make already damaged microvascular vessels even angrier because I’m starting out freezing.
So, lesson learned. I think this has to be a first-thing-in-the-morning thing, when I’m warm enough to actually tolerate the cold instead of adding cold on top of cold.

I did, however, catch this incredible sunrise. And I’m guessing I may not be the only one.

Did you see it? Share your sunrise below.

Trillium a.k.a. Trill. Named for the noise, not the flower, as it would seem. Because she doesn't meow. She trills. Chir...
09/01/2026

Trillium a.k.a. Trill.

Named for the noise, not the flower, as it would seem.

Because she doesn't meow. She trills. Chirps. Squeaks. Yodels and Occasionally produces a sound that makes you check whether something in the house needs batteries.

She's Bulletproof. A nonstop blur of chaos and sounds I have never heard come out of a cat before.

And I thought Floki was broken.....

She's everyone's best friend and it's always constant shenanigans and explosive laughter that follow this little heathen everywhere she goes, and not just the dogs.

If the house suddenly goes quiet, nobody relaxes.

We go find Trillium. Immediately.

And we would not have it any other way.

09/01/2026

Day 4. After work.

15 seconds.

That’s how long my body lasted before my hands and arms turned completely white, loss function and feeling and violent shivering took over. Around an hour to fully rewarm in dry clothes and room air.

I breathed through and fought the vigors for another 15 seconds but then they won.

And this is the part I’m trying to understand.

It isn’t just cold water.

This same thing can happen in an 80-degree room if the air hits me just right. A breeze across my neck or arms can trigger the shaking and the loss of color almost instantly. I am taping hot packs in between my shoulder blades to get through my work day in a cold OR.

Last night was another piece of the puzzle and it may be this idea won't work with my nervous system at all and that's okay too!

Not ready to give up, yet!

08/31/2026

Day 3 of cold plunging. 🥶

Yesterday was cold, cloudy and somehow easier without the sun. I even upgraded to the perfect little plunge hole now that its previous resident—the dead fish—has been respectfully relocated. The pups were my guardians and they kept close the entire time.

I was going to get Day 4 done before work, but it’s currently very dark, something is howling in the woods and an owl is now singing me a song while I am wrapped up in my blankets, melting into my heated mattress pad, sipping coffee waking up for my shift.

There is absolutely no reason to add a half-naked woman climbing into a river before sunrise. We don't need to add me howling at the Moon, too.

I’ll go after work. 😂

Still committed and somehow planning to do this when the river freezes, for now.

Clearly the cold water is not improving my decision-making yet. 🥶😂

08/29/2026

I have been saying I'm going to start doing this for a long time and after the last couple weeks of coming off Prednisone and things amping up. I'm tired of feeling like this and saying what I would like to do and decided it was time to start actually doing it.

Welllll.....Here is some incredibly cringeworthy video evidence of me voluntarily getting into the river to begin my cold plunging journey. 😂🥶

And before anyone says it — no, the water isn't THAT cold yet in the low 60's. That's actually the point.

While I wait for another referral from the newest Rheumatologist to Rheumatology/Immunology at Mass General, I need to feel like I'm doing something besides sitting in silence.

So I'm starting now.

There is documented science behind controlled cold exposure and the way it affects the nervous system, stress response, blood vessels and immune signaling. It's not a cure for autoimmune or microvascular disease, but I'm curious about what consistent, controlled exposure might teach my body while the specialists figure out what the hell it's doing.

And I'm posting this mostly for accountability and a little for everyone to laugh with me and hopefully not at me, because, you guessed it...

I want to do this year-round.

Yes. You read that correctly.

This river.
New Hampshire.
Winter.
When this thing is literally frozen. 😂🥶

Obviously with ALL appropriate safety precautions because I'm trying to help myself, not become a very unfortunate headline.

Eventually our goal will be to add some type of outdoor sauna and finally get a wood stove in this house too and incorporate controlled heat exposure, which has some fascinating research behind vascular function as well.

But first, I have to start somewhere.

So here it is. Yesterday, Day 1. Today's video will come soon. And if you don't want to watch and cheer me on keep scrolling but these videos and/or Pictures are going to be how I hold myself accountable and hopefully will happen at least on my days off.

The water wasn't that cold yet.
The video is still horrifying.
And now that I've told all of you I'm doing this year-round, I guess I better keep getting in.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone

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