Laughter thru Tears - 1:20 Podcast

09/28/2026

Happy National Son’s Day to our handsome, genuine, kind and wonderful son! Years of beaches and mountains and hiking and jogging, hospital visits and rehab, all filled with laughter and our little furry friends of course…You are amazing, our son, the dog whisperer. 🥰🥰 Love you son!! 💙💙💙💙

09/22/2026

What happens in the hospital after we survive sepsis. 😭

09/20/2026

The “baggage” we septic shock survivors carry. 🧳No filter, just real and raw😭. 9 months post septic shock, emergency abdominal surgery, colostomy placement, and 2 months post colostomy reversal surgery.

Septic shock took my muscle mass, half my hair, my iron, my teeth, it caused my glucose to skyrocket into the 500s, and my potassium to nosedive. My TSH - thyroid, surged and we had to adjust my medication. It took my energy but gave me PTSD. I had to learn to walk again.

This was my first day of aquatic exercise therapy I desperately needed to rebuild my muscles. What followed after was two years of intensive physical therapy and aquatic exercise. I weighed only 110 lbs in the first picture.

09/19/2026

09/18/2026

Waking up after septic shock in the ICU with an ostomy…and no muscle and cannot walk… almost too much to handle…😭😭😭😭

09/18/2026

Back in my feels again as I relay my septic shock experience and talk about post sepsis syndrome….

09/16/2026

Taking a walk is a painful, hot, sweaty, uncomfortable challenge for me.

Kyphosis deformity repair surgery is seriously being considered.

09/13/2026

Today is my birthday, and also World Sepsis Day!

This is my 4th year since surviving septic shock that I’m running my annual, “Give Someone Another Birthday” fundraiser for Sepsis Alliance! Would make it a very happy birthday for me, if you could donate and/or share the link below? ♥️🎂