“I remember thinking how odd it was.”
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“I remember thinking how odd it was.”
“I felt a sudden drop in my belly, my water finally broke, and I knew I wasn’t going to make it. In a knee-length fluffy pink bathrobe and white underwear, I put on a huge, long, overnight pad. I waddled down the stairs, as best I could, to the car. ‘We’ll never make it.'”
“We would find her sleeping under my husband’s van, leaving bags of trash in my driveway and weird gifts at my door for the kids. All in an effort to guilt me into letting her into my house. I did not feel safe. I felt as if she might just pop out of the bushes and take one of the boys and I would never see them again. But I would NOT give in.”
“One morning, Larry found a lump in his arm. He cried out, ‘I feel like I’m going to die!’ At 42 years old, I didn’t want to be a widow. How would I ever live without him?”
“In our journey to open our home and our hearts, I failed to find true, honest, and comforting resources to show me what I could expect. So here I am, closing the gap.”
“I started passing out in stairwells and parking lots at just 15 years old. We thought it was a ‘fluke.’ My potassium was low, no big deal. After years with no answers and countless misdiagnoses, a neuropsychiatrist finally said, ‘Felicia, have you ever experienced trauma?’ My husband encouraged me to come clean.”
“My mom experienced REPEATED rejection while searching for jobs, and was told she wasn’t a good communicator. It’s not an IMPAIRMENT, it’s something to be proud of.”
“The moment he told me, I broke down in tears, realizing our relationship had to end. Deep down, I knew this it was different.”
“Everything I’ve done and figured out in the wake of his death has been a first-hand, trial and error experience. This year, we did things a little differently.”
“I remember being in a lot of pain and visiting the first aid room at school and being sent away, as it was most likely ‘growing pains.’ I have to accept I can’t get a role as physical as I’d like, but this is part of having a disability, learning what you can and can’t do.”