**Overcome Fear: 6 Easy Things You Can Do Right Now** For most of my childhood I thought that I was destined to a live a life chronic illness or that I would die before I was a teenager. At the age of nine, I developed an aggressive auto-immune disorder that required routine inpatient hospital stays for many years. To cope with this illness {and my parent’s mental illness}, I escaped to my imagination and art. I had so few platelets {the cells that help clot} that I was frequently prescribed bed rest in order to prevent spontaneous brain hemorrhages. I also thought about death…a lot. After years of suffering, it was decided that I would undergo a risky splenectomy. I gave my own blood for the operation and traveled hundreds of miles for the surgery. When I arrived at the hospital, I was admitted to the laboratory for routine blood work. Afterwards, I was rushed to the pediatric ward and given intravenous medications that temporarily increased my platelets. My arm, scarred from hundreds of pricks. My face, dazed from the morphine to knock me out so that my allergic reaction to the medication would be nullified. My heart, broken and somehow simultaneously surrendered. As I traveled to the edge of the unknown, a nurse rushed into my room. “She has a near normal platelet count.” Read the rest of the post here: mollyhahn/2014/03/19/how-to-live-fearlessly/
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:56:15 +0000
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