Some OBGYNs belittled my symptoms. They essentially tossed some anti-anxiety medication my way and said, “Hey, you’re a mother and all of these things are normal. Take this pill and let’s see if it helps take the edge off.” And, that’s just not right. We shouldn’t have to bear this alone or feel stupid and gross for having these symptoms, and we shouldn’t be belittled because we’re women and women just have to go through hard things…
So when we meet, we all show-up with the baggage of the days we’ve had. It’s clearly on our shoulders or in our disheveled hair or in the stains on our clothes and in the sores on our heels.
Instead of networking and taking time for myself, if I were the one to lose my job I’d become the craziest (albeit amazing) homemaker you’d ever seen!
And now, I just don’t know if I can ever go back to sleep, again. I don’t know if I ever want Jimmy to go to sleep, again. Life before the seizure is no longer. We have a new routine.
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