Welcome to JointChaos
Life rarely stays in one neat category. Neither does this site.
JointChaos began with our family's experience navigating complex chronic illness. Now it is growing into a place for the things I have learned, questioned, researched, and occasionally ranted about along the way.
Health & Family
Living with complex chronic illness, navigating healthcare, sharing research, and documenting realities that are often invisible from the outside.
Explore Health & Family →Money & Investing
Canadian investing, retirement, markets, financial decisions, mistakes, lessons learned, and the things I wish someone had explained sooner.
Explore Money & Investing →Building Our Home
What we are learning while building a new home in Ontario, including financing, construction decisions, surprises, and the things nobody thinks to ask.
Explore Building Our Home →Articles & Videos
Longer stories, practical guides, opinions, lessons learned, and eventually a growing collection of videos about money, life, and everything in between.
Explore Articles & Videos →Why JointChaos?
Because real life is messy.
Sometimes you are trying to understand a complicated medical system. Sometimes you are trying to figure out what to do with your money. Sometimes you are building a house and wondering why nobody can answer a simple question. And sometimes you just need to laugh at the whole ridiculous thing.
This is a place for honest experiences, research, questions, lessons learned, and the occasional completely justified rant.