Continue reading LET’S GO BACK PART VII: Waiting On Insurance“It’s such a web that’s weaved. Each individual silk line slowly forming a web that those with an illness must live within”
LET’S GO BACK PART VI: Another Appointment, Another Diagnosis
I meet again, with the Lahey Rheumatologist, she will now be my primary doctor for my Systemic Sclerosis.
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LET’S GO BACK PART V: The Results Are In
My husband & I journey 2 1/2 hours to Lahey Hospital for my 1000th, “second opinion”.
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LET’S GO BACK PART IV: Starting The Diagnosis Process All Over Again
When that doctor disregarded me once again, I had no fight left. I crashed & I crashed hard.
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LET’S GO BACK PART III: Questioning My Diagnosis
Fast forward 10 years.
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LET’S GO BACK PART II: MS Diagnosis
I waited quite awhile before going to a neurologist.
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LET’S GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING
In the early 2000’s, I was raising kids, working, & coaching. I ran nearly every day. It was my time, a chance to let go of stress & think over things.
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CRACKED BUT UNBROKEN
A poem I wrote for an Agent Orange presentation.
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AFTER THE TSUNAMI HITS
When you’re young you feel invincible. I felt invincible.
ONCE UPON A TIME I HAD A NORMAL HAPPY LIFE
One day I am living life, raising kids & working multiple jobs that I love. I am running nearly everyday, I’m healthy, strong and full of hopes and dreams. Together with my husband I am making plans for the future and above all, I am happy. Then like a tsunami hits the shore, I am hit with the biggest challenge of my life.
WE WOULD NEVER ASK YOU TO WALK A MILE IN OUR SHOES. NO ONE DESERVES THIS…
Come and join us down the illness rabbit hole. Where we will share our journeys through this life as ill and disabled people in an abled world. We met through a mutual commitment to fighting for children of Vietnam veterans whose medical issues are attributed to or presumed to be from their parents exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam. Through our activism a friendship grew. Together we are a powerful force to be reckoned with.
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