A Life With Trigeminal Neuralgia
Anniversaries can fucking suck. I know that’s a bit of a harsh opening, but it’s true. July 13th, 2021 marked 8 years of living with Trigeminal Neuralgia. 8 years – 96 months – 2920 days – 70,080 hours of living with this monster. No matter the measurement of time I choose, there’s this weird phenomenon […]
Well, it’s been one year since I had the surgery that drastically changed my life. Recovery has been an absolute roller coaster to say the least; every up has had a down, every twist has had a turn, and every bit of “full-speed” progress has required a brake. There have been times where I felt […]
Well, it’s been exactly one month since brain surgery! I’ve been getting lots of questions and requests to do an update and I think that this is an appropriate day to do one. To get right to it, things have been up and down. I definitely didn’t expect my healing to be linear, but I […]
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 […]
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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