Hospital – Page 2 – Living With Teal

April 26, 2019March 1, 2020Mackenzie Lea

Some Quick, Unedited Feelings

So my life has been kind of wild lately! I’ve spent the last week trying to assemble some sort of a formal blog, but I just don’t have the focus or stamina at the moment. I guess I haven’t fully processed everything that’s gone on, so it’s hard to put everything into words. I made […]

March 11, 2019May 8, 2019Mackenzie Lea

Brain Surgery – 4 Years Later

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 […]

July 13, 2018July 17, 2018Mackenzie Lea

“I Remember It Like It Was Yesterday”

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 […]