Back in 2022, I made some decisions to figure out how to actually improve my health. Going into spring, it felt like my whole life was spiraling downward. I made appointments and got in to see the dysautonomia clinic at Mayo Clinic Rochester. For two weeks, my husband, son and I stayed in Minnesota while […]
Fast forward, to 2021. The year that I had hip arthroscopy to repair a labral tear (but that revealed hidden bone spurs right where they couldn’t have been caught on camera). After years of being told that scar tissue from my endometriosis was what was warping my SI, I was astonished to find that repairing […]
Fast forward to 2020. In January, I had to face the reality that my dysautonomia was definitely manifesting like POTS, and was definitely a problem. I couldn’t go up the stairs without coming close to passing out, and certainly having my heart rate very high. But my resting heart rate was getting lower and lower. […]
Everyone talks about the stages of grief in different ways, but they all start out the same, that I’ve seen – denial, followed by anger/depression, before acceptance. I lived the first three decades of my life in denial. Sure, things weren’t always as bad as they are now, but I was in denial that things […]