Brave Enough To Be Bliss

So, two and half years after the hysterectomy, I finally started feeling like a normal functioning human being. The best news of all was that the migraines were less frequent, shorter duration, and less intense. To give a good idea of how painful and disruptive the migraines were prior to the hysterectomy, I would still opt to have the exact same procedure over again even with all those complications and resulting surgeries. I would not hesitate for one second; that is how much better my life has been without so many migraines. I have worked in healthcare for more than 20 years and even with the connections I had, it was still very difficult to find the help I needed to live a normal life again. I share this story because everyone needs to understand you know your body better tha n anyone else. When something isn’t right , keep working to find a healthcare provider who will listen, because otherwise you could accept something as being permanent when that isn’t necessarily the case. Medical providers are human just like all of us. I had a bad outcome. It wasn’t any fun, but unfortunate things do happen sometimes and not always because someone is incompetent. Sometimes bad things just happen because this is life. And life…is…hard.

Migraine pain had been the worst physical pain of my life, but even that couldn’t hold a candle to the emotional pain that was yet to come.

“What we know now is that when we deny our emotion , it owns us. When we own our emotion, we can rebuild and find our way through the pain.” Brené Brown

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