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Stem Cell Treatment

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You can learn lessons a variety of ways but I learn by experience, which isn’t always the easiest way to learn. Schwannomatosis has taught me so much; I’ve learned to love deeply and to find the beauty in the pain, and to not wait for permission to live my life, and so much more. Such simple lessons to learn, that took a disease to teach me. There was a point last year I wanted to throw in the towel and give up; I was tired of feeling this constant pain, it’s absolutely exhausting. I was dreading the future, which in turn made my depression worse. How can you be happy when you avoid the thought of the future? Add excruciating pain on top of it, made life unbearable at times. I hit a breaking point, and started working on my mentality. During this self-developing journey, I realized that I don’t need to be fated to my disease. Schwannomatosis does not define me, nor will it be my life sentence.  So I started researching alternative solutions, and options from around the world. Ju