“I was newly engaged, planning the beautiful merger of our lives and families. The sky was the limit! Then I felt something alarming at the top of my breast, something that didn’t belong.”
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“I was newly engaged, planning the beautiful merger of our lives and families. The sky was the limit! Then I felt something alarming at the top of my breast, something that didn’t belong.”
“We were tired of being peed on. ‘Go back to bed, I’m not cleaning up another mess.’ We cut off drinking water a couple hours before bed. Her desire for water increased.”
“Now, as we prepare for the third time around, I realize all I wish they had told us was, ‘It will be okay.'”
“When I was out during the day, I was being who people needed me to be, then I would come home and put my dukes up. I felt like an imposter in the life I had built.”
“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?”
“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.”