“I compared myself to everyone. I assumed everyone was more intelligent than me. No matter how many credentials or physical proofs said I was ‘good enough,’ I still felt I was unqualified.”
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‘I couldn’t hear anything the staff said. All I could think was, ‘Isn’t that bad?’ I felt like the air was gone’: Mom shares journey to accepting son’s Congenital Muscular Dystrophy diagnosis
“’This office is so grey. It’s definitely not a pediatric specialist.’ I think somehow I knew. I think a mother always knows. I wasn’t ready to keep living like we had not just gotten the worst news imaginable.”
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“Preparing for surgery can be overwhelming emotionally and physically, especially when it’s your first surgery. These are the primary lessons I have learned throughout the years when facing a scheduled hospitalization.”
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“I began to think of my own death constantly. I’d even envision my own funeral. I’d get upset that I wasn’t going to be there. I want to provide the cushion that my brother couldn’t give me when he died.”
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“Your doctors will tell you it’s in your head or to lose weight. Your friends will tell you to buy this or that and it’ll be your cure. Your family will think you’re an attention seeker. Your job will terminate you because you are always sick.”
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“For years, I had every example showing me abuse as how life was supposed to be. So, when I met him, it felt normal. What I should have been saying was that I deserve better.”
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“I knew then, at that moment watching the screen as her little body fluttered across I was going to do everything in my power to be the mom that baby surely deserved. Becoming her mama was truly what I was meant to do in this life.”
‘There’s only a 50% chance this procedure helps.’ I was out of options and exhausted. And then my brain surgery failed.’: Mom candidly shares chronic illness, life spent in hospital
“I had a wonderful husband and 4 miracle babies to take care of. I wanted to see them graduate, maybe get married, or even have kids of their own. What if I was just gone one day?”
‘You are my strength,’ my mother told me. Every single morning for two years, she screamed and sobbed, and I calmed her down.’: Woman candidly shares her grief over sibling loss
“My mom was digging at his grave with her hands and yelling towards the ground and crying. Her nails began to tear back and nearly bleed. I didn’t know how to accept that the world wasn’t crying with me.”
‘How am I 21 and this sick?’ The pain was excruciating. I saw the ER staff more than I saw my child.’: Single mom, abuse survivor shares battle with rare Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
“I was at Walmart with my daughter, and I went completely blank. I lost all vision, and everything turned dark. My shunt broke. My heart shattered on the Walmart floor that afternoon. I felt absolutely hopeless.”