Carol Bjornstad
Farmer's Wife & Community Voice | Aberdeen, South Dakota
Farmer's Wife & Community Voice | Aberdeen, South Dakota
Carol Bjornstad has been a farmer's wife, a church treasurer, a grandmother, and a lifelong Lutheran — and she was the last person anyone, including herself, would have expected to walk into a dispensary. Rheumatoid arthritis and three years of broken sleep changed her mind, and her daughter's quiet persistence finally got her through the door. She sat in the parking lot for twenty minutes first. She writes because she knows there are women exactly like her — farm wives, churchwomen, grandmothers — who need to hear this from someone who sounds like them, not like a brochure.
Carol found her dose on the first try — 2.5 milligrams — and hasn't changed it in four years. Here's why starting low and staying there might be the best advice nobody gives you.
Read Article →Carol sat in the parking lot for twenty minutes. She wore sunglasses indoors in January. And then she walked in — and it looked like a doctor's office.
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