Today marks the second day of Spring and September and the end of a tough tough week. This week has included nightmares about my upcoming Endoscopy (3 sleeps), an epic POTS flare that left me lying on the ground in my tutorial, meetings about upcoming placements, epic angry ankle EDS flares and just really really really bad fatigue. Ohh plus meeting and starting with 2 new families for work and deciding whether I want to take the next step and get AFOs. It's been an interesting week. But! Spring signals the beginning of chronic pain awareness month. So this month I'm going to be sharing snippets of my life with chronic pain over the next month. This coming week presents another week of tough decisions and medical things. Firstly... Monday signals my Endoscopy and first time under general anasethic and fasting since my POTS and EDS diagnosis, so I'm not expecting it to go well... To say I'm nervous would be an understatement. As I've already said, last night w...
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome along with a few others... The 'problem patient'