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It was late January in 2016. My carotid artery had ruptured two months prior and I was still recovering from the surgeries that repaired it. I wasn’t driving. I wasn’t working. I wasn’t doing much of anything except trying to process the ramifications of the diagnosis I had just received. Yes, I did have Vascular […]

I was flipping through the pages of my older journals this week when my eyes stopped on the following words scrawled at the top of the page: what is God teaching me? What is God teaching me? I wrote these words during a season marked with intense anxiety, crippling pain, and many, many tears. Have you […]

Six years ago, I was lying in an operating waiting room, wondering when my surgery was going to begin. It should have started hours before, but it was delayed for an unknown reason. This particular procedure was the completion of another surgery from three days prior. For someone with a connective tissue disorder like me, […]

Can I be honest with you? I didn’t think I would make it to tomorrow. I was thirty-nine when I was diagnosed with Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. When we celebrated my 40th birthday a few months later, it felt like a miracle. It still does. It was. It is. So on the day before my 44th […]

I was standing in the sandy soil on my Grandmother’s farm when my hair started to fall out. Chatting with my cousin and absentmindedly raking my fingers through my hair, I didn’t expect the long, brown chunks that appeared in my fists. My doctor had warned me that hair loss might result from the two […]

“Prepare your bucket list and live your life well.” -My Doctor Almost two years ago, these were the words I received with my diagnosis of Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. There is no cure or treatment for vEDS. And because the life-expectancy of someone with vEDS is cut short, bucket-list living quickly shifted to the forefront of […]

I started collecting these verses over a year ago. It was over a year ago that everything I thought I knew about my body changed. Just before that I was a fitness instructor, regularly teaching 10+ classes a week. I made a living teaching other people how to be healthy and I relished the lifestyle […]