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I am a 21 year old college student in Alabama with Dysautonomia as a primary disease. That means my nervous system system doesn't do what it's supposed to.(And when your nervous system messes up, so do a lot of other things. That caused IC, Neurogenic Bladder, PCS, Endometriosis, UC, IBS, GERD,... Full Bio
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Hysterectomy Post-Op: Mom Thinks She's Funny by Dysautonomic Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Illness This involves information about female reproductive organs and even a few lines about bladders thrown in for good measure. So...just warning you. ... Read on »
How to Chill Down Before a Surgery by Dysautonomic Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Illness It's been awhile. But I decided that maybe it's time to jump back into this. I've been vlogging over at http://www.youtube.com/heyheyraytay with my buddy Taylor, but very ... Read on »
Hysterectomy by Dysautonomic Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Illness I've pretty much stopped blogging. I do a comedy(ish) vlog over at HeyHeyRayTay (click it to go to it) with my best friend. But I did decide to start vlogging about a few he ... Read on »
Octopus Robot Surgery by Dysautonomic Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Illness At 2:30 AM on Wednesday morning, my dad drove me down to Brookwood Hospital in Birmingham. I was the first case of the day for my surgeon. It's all a blur, so I don't really ... Read on »
Long Time No Blog. by Dysautonomic Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Illness There are a few different reasons that I haven't blogged in awhile. The main one being that things kept getting worse, and I felt like I had nothing positive to contribute t ... Read on »
Neuropathy by Dysautonomic Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Illness It's been awhile. Since I last posted, not much has happened. Summer classes started. My mom put a new hard drive in my computer. I've been seeing some great results with t ... Read on »
Summer Goals by Dysautonomic Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Illness My summer goals Education - Get an A in my summer class...unless I have to take two courses. Then I need an A in science and a B in math. - Read 3 books. I'm not going t ... Read on »
National Thank a Teacher Day by Dysautonomic Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Illness This week is National Teacher Appreciation Week. As a part of that week, today is National Thank a Teacher Day. I'm sure that, in my quest to become a teacher, I will be ... Read on »
Forever 22 by Dysautonomic Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Illness School is over! Until my summer class starts. I'm only taking one because UAH can never seem to offer anything that anyone needs, EVER. The picture above is from the las ... Read on »
Surgiversary by Dysautonomic Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Illness Today is the one month anniversary of the surgery to get my permanent device. Surgiversary. (The surgiversary for the first surgery was on the 19th, though.) I have to say, ... Read on »
My InterStim Experience by Dysautonomic Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Illness Wow. It's been awhile. A lot has happened. I kept trying to write this blog and I just never could finish it. I guess because I can't really put into words what kind of emot ... Read on »
Interstim - The Day Before by Dysautonomic Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Illness There are two scenarios happening simultaneously. Scenario one: While all of my friends are sailing away on the cool breezes of spring break aka recovering from St. Patri ... Read on »
Interstim Expedition: Pre-Op by Dysautonomic Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Illness Bright and early yesterday, my mom and I went to the Cool Springs surgery center in Tennessee. We met the surgeon who will implant the device (we've mainly been dealing with ... Read on »
Mononucleosis by Dysautonomic Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Illness Good news!!!! I have mono!!!! I know that doesn't sound like good news. And yes, I feel like death. But apparently I've had mono for a month. The doctors thought that I w ... Read on »
On the Up & Up! by Dysautonomic Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Illness Things seem to be on the up and up for me. This Valentines Day, I was lucky to be surrounded by people and things I love. - Insurance approved my Interstim surgery. ... Read on »
Sacral Neuromodulation by Dysautonomic Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Illness I went to the Urologic Surgeon at Vanderbilt on Wednesday and had another Urodynamics test. First of all, this one was way more serious than the last one. Second of all, I'm ... Read on »
You bladder watch out, you bladder not cry. by Dysautonomic Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Illness School is going well. That d-bag teacher turned out to not be so bad. It's good that we're going over The Giver right now, what with all that Arizona book controversy going ... Read on »
If i go on talking and talking by Dysautonomic Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Illness We didn't do any of those lame introductory things in any of my classes this year. We're doing them during the second week of school instead. (Whaaaaa?) Anyway, so I have t ... Read on »
Boyz N the Hood & The Giver by Dysautonomic Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Illness I survived the first week of school! If anyone else tells me that they want to go into education because it's easy, I will scream. The course work is easy, comparatively, ... Read on »
2012 Goals by Dysautonomic Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Illness Making goals for 2012? Don't mind if I do. Okay...they're kind of personal. - Read more. Trey got me a Kindle for Christmas , so I've already gotten a jump start on this ... Read on »