Kathleen’s medical madness journey

06/24/2026

06/24/2026

More doodles I’ve been up to. If I have anxiety but I’m at home, I have found that doing one of these helps clear my head. Not quite as well as meds but good enough! Which of these is your favorite?!

06/22/2026

Went to a pot luck… brought the “I have no digestive tract” fruit and veggie platter 🤣

06/17/2026

Need to shut off your brain for a few minutes? This really helps with my anxiety. I get in the zone and time just flies by.

A few people have asked me about my latest drawings and how I did them. Here is a sped up video of how I do the black paper/metallic marker combo. Black paper, use white marker (that won’t bleed if other markers get close) to make the lines. Don’t over think it, it should take 10 second or less. It doesn’t matter where they cross it doesn’t matter how many lines there are just draw lines until you have shapes the size that you want them roughly if you want bigger shapes use less lines if you want smaller shapes to fill in use more lines etc. the only rule is there are no rules. It’s meant to calm your brain not overthink.

06/16/2026

Hey guys, wanna know what doesn't mix? A kitty kneading in his sleep and a poo bag. 😬

06/07/2026

Sometimes, the chronically ill chronically in pain patient wants to be a person. So she throws caution to the wind and plays at urban air with her husband and teen boys not caring about tomorrow because she’s making memories now.

Also sometimes, that same chronically ill, chronically in pain patient thinks “What the Yoo-hoo was she thinking yesterday that dumb bitch” LOL just kidding totally worth it… also why was I afraid to do a sit stand?

05/31/2026

Some fun new thing my brain is doing is nightmares that caused me to wake up screaming. Have in the past two nights woke up screaming help, mom, Clayton, Dad, help again and then just screaming a couple of times. It’s made me want to sleep and my insomnia really awesome. Nothing encourages not sleeping and insomnia like terrifying nightmares.

Enjoy my drawing of randomness

05/26/2026

I didn’t do a lot today but I did a lot for my soul. Reading, drawing, coloring, doodling while listening to Yiruma 💜

if you like art, do it. Who cares if it isn’t worth 60k. It’s with more than that to your mental health to sit down and just be you. Do you. Be you. It will be fine. I promise.

05/22/2026

If you walk your dog, you NEED one of these bungee waist leashes. I can walk BOTH dogs with them and we all know I can hardly walk with just myself.

You don’t have to go far, and you don’t have to go fast. Just move. Anyway you like. I definitely didn’t start with 2 dogs and a mile. I started with 0 dogs and a couple houses with my walker, then went backwards and had to use a wheelchair for a bit and that’s ok as long as I don’t give up, back to walker and 2 houses down the road, then no walker and same distance, then one dog and a little longer and now two today and I made it around our circle.

Progress not perfection.

05/22/2026

Oh… cool.