A Life With Trigeminal Neuralgia
On July 13th, I will have been living with Trigeminal Neuralgia for 6 years. For some reason, it doesn’t seem like it’s been that long. You see, when you live with a chronic illness, it’s vital that you take things day by day… and that’s exactly what I’ve been doing; fighting against my own body every […]
Trigeminal Neuralgia is invisible to the vast majority of people. It’s only when you look closely that you see our distant stares, the tics in our faces, and the scars that so many of us bare. Four years ago today, I received my biggest scar – both physically and mentally. When you receive a devastating […]
Fear lurks around every corner and sits on the surface of my skin; It soaks into my body and it eats me from within. As I degenerate and the pain spreads to a new part of my face, I realize my only option is to sit down and embrace. Embracing pain is something that I […]
I’ve always loved camping – it’s something my family and I have enjoyed since I was only a few weeks old. My summers were spent amongst the trees, in the shade of the Rocky Mountains. I loved the feeling of running my hands through the dirt. I loved the shock of cold that my body […]
An ugly, green and orange hotel comforter; that’s not what I thought I’d remember about July 13th, 2013. Of course, that’s not the only thing I remember, but it’s the first thing I saw when I experienced “the worst pain known to mankind”. And now here I am, exactly 5 years later, sitting in my […]
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