Tag: Chronic Illness
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Everyday Tools for Neck Pain and Instability
Living with neck pain and cervical instability often means relying on small, supportive tools rather than one single solution. This post shares personal experience with everyday tools like KT tape, prism glasses, positional rest, and daily positioning awareness that help reduce strain, head pressure, and fatigue.
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Finding Stability in the Unstable: Living with Cervical Instability
What Upper Cervical Instability and shared experiences have taught me about hope and healing Last November, after nearly three decades of unexplained pain and symptoms, I finally received my first clear diagnosis: a syrinx extending from C5 to T12. I didn’t know what that meant at first, but it marked the beginning of finally understanding…
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Syringomyelia and Cervical Instability: What Doctors Missed and What I Found
When I first shared our mold story and later wrote about my symptoms, I thought those chapters explained the root of what was happening to me. Mold was a real factor in my health, but as time went on, I began to realize there was much more beneath the surface. For years, I lived with…
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The Struggle, and God’s Quiet Plan
From Mystery Symptoms to Ehlers-Danlos: My Story God has a way of offering us strength when we don’t think we can handle one more thing. And somehow, we pull through. Again and again. I think back to when I gave birth to my fourth baby. My oldest was only five. Five! How did I survive…
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When the Road Gets Harder: Chronic Illness, Lent, and Faith
I didn’t expect this chapter to unfold so soon. I mean, I thought I just shared all there was to share in this post about my diagnosis.But here I am—walking through more tests, more questions, and trusting God with a heart that feels both heavy and quietly hopeful. The past week has been a blur…
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Navigating Chronic Pain: My Journey to A Diagnosis
Part 1: Ignoring the Signs It’s easy to push through pain, exhaustion, and the nagging signs that something isn’t right. The to-do list never shrinks, and those random aches and pains? We brush them off, blaming stress or just being too busy. That’s exactly what I did. For years, I chalked up the fatigue, pain,…