I am living with severe #MECFS and autoimmune autonomic neuropathy for the last decade. Some days I cannot stand. Other days I get by fine and can stand and walk a bit.
Chronic illness has a way of taking what is the normal bare minimum to exist and making it into a marathon your body isn’t ready to run.
Before I was sick I never gave much thought to taking showers, cooking meals, gardening, keeping house or making art. It was normal. I was very active.
Then came exhaustion, pain, sleepless nights and anxiety of not understanding why my body was betraying me at such a young age. Unexplained symptoms, scans, appointments, more needles than I can count.
I have 52 hospital bracelets. Each time I added another to the pile I questioned myself. I questioned God. I hated my body and the fact that I was still the same me, just trapped in this body that betrayed me. It turned 80 before I turned 30.
Specialists, complications, physicians who found it easier to tell me I was depressed than to believe my experience. Medical gaslighting.
I finally met a neurologist who changed my life. He said let’s investigate this together. A decade to find the cause. In that time I watched my health bar decrease the same way it did when I played Streetfighter in an arcade as a kid.
Research. I did so much research after my diagnosis. I modified my life, my diet, my habits and regiments. My family adapted, stepped up to help. We’ve prayed and cried a lot.
I don’t get around very much, I don’t go in public much because I’m too immune compromised. But I’m here and I have a voice and I’m finding support here in X in the #chronicillness and #mecfs #autoimmune communities.
I’m surviving and I have a voice and if you’re chronically ill, you do too. Sometimes just having someone who “gets it” can be a lifeline or a laugh when you need one.
If that’s you, 👇let me know and I’ll follow you. We can be chronically cool together
American from Iran is standing in front of our fallen soldiers on Veterans Day warning us that Muslims are using Democrats to take over America
“America. Today is Veterans Day, and as an Iranian who came to this country for the freedom and ran away from Islam, ran away from IRGC, I stand by these people. These people, they put their life in danger and they lay down here for the freedom. For the freedom that the countries like Iran, the Islamic Republic of Iran, trying to take it away from the people of America. For voting Democrats to bring in Islam in this country.
— There's so many countries like Libya, Iraq, Morocco, Lebanon. They used to be Christian. When Islam takes over, they slowly turn to the Muslim country with the Sharia law.
— IRGC killed my own people, 60,000 people over 2 nights when they came out for freedom. And now these people, they care about the price of the egg and gas. The price is gas, the gas price is high because it's bothering them. But guess what? That's the price of the freedom.
That's the price of the freedom that you are giving it to for not having the terrorists in this country. The United States military taking the action on Iran because it's a danger to the whole world and United States citizens.
And I tell you, the bottom of my heart, as an Iranian who was brainwashed from the IRGC propaganda against America
I used to say death to America. Now I'm loving, loving the flag right there. Now it's my second home. It is my job to encourage the citizens to stand by America. Not Islam who wants to take over this country and turn it to the shit show. Wake up, America, wake up”
I can’t tell you how many videos I’ve seen of people from Iran and the Middle East begging Americans to wake up to the Democrat party because they see the Islamic takeover happening
What’s it going to take for liberals to finally understand they’re being played by radical Islam
By the time they wake up it’ll be too late. We need to identify all that are a threat and listen to this radical ideology and mass deport them from our country
@JewelsJonesLive These hypocrites can’t even function in their roles. They’re inept and lack the moral fortitude to even participate minimally in the non sense they demand. It’s insanity
I had mold toxicity for years before I figured out what it was. It took two years of treating it just to clear up the brain fog. I’m certain this sickness is being deliberately engineered.
🇺🇸 BEFORE YOU SCROLL THIS VETERANS DAY, PLEASE REMEMBER MY BROTHER.
His name was CW2 Bradley Justin Gaudet, United States Army.
On June 5, 2011, at just 31 years old, my brother lost his life on foreign soil in Afghanistan while serving the country he loved.
He was flying an OH-58 Kiowa helicopter alongside CW3 Kenneth White when they responded to enemy activity threatening American forces. Neither man returned home.
Bradley was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, and Air Medal with “V” device for valor.
But there is something I wish more people understood about the men and women who die serving this country.
They are not just soldiers. They are entire worlds to the people who love them.
Bradley was a husband, a father to two children, a beloved son, and my brother.
And today, he is also a grandfather.
His granddaughter has been born into a world he helped protect, but one he never got to come home to.
He will never know the joy of holding her, just as she will never know what it feels like to be held by him.
There have been birthdays, holidays, weddings, and countless moments when he should have been standing beside us.
Instead, we have photographs, memories, and a folded flag.
My brother died thousands of miles from home, on foreign land, serving a nation filled with people he would never meet.
He gave his tomorrow for the country we get to call home today.
And while America remembers its heroes on special occasions, families like ours remember them every morning we wake up without them.
This Veterans Day, I ask you to remember that behind every fallen soldier is a family whose lives were forever changed.
Remember CW3 Kenneth White, who died alongside my brother.
And please, remember CW2 Bradley Justin Gaudet.
He was here. He was loved. He mattered.
His life was more than his death, and his sacrifice deserves more than a moment of silence.
🇺🇸 Forever 31. Forever my brother. Forever an American hero.
Please share his name so that another generation will know the men who never made it home. ❤️
#VeteransDay #BradleyJustinGaudet #GoldStarFamily #NeverForgotten #HonorTheFallen #USArmy
I look for a lot of coupons on everyday purchases, I will download the app or clip the coupons or use store cards to save. On big purchases it’s comparing prices and waiting for things to go on sale…I buy second hand when it makes sense, and I plan ahead to avoid needing things on the go (drinks and snacks in the car so we don’t need to purchase etc) I also sell things that we don’t use or need anymore before I replace them (clothes home goods etc)
@appyobliged This is awesome 😎 the hubs and I are patiently awaiting grandbabies (ok me not so patiently) but our son is married and another one will be soon so 🤞
They will take Texas from a non state taxed population with surplus savings to another California in one sitting. They will drain the wealth just like California, New York etc. the democrats lie cheat and steal from good hardworking people and give to people with no loyalty so they can steal some more.
@Nicole_N_H They’re fomenting disorder in our troops. It’s easy to understand, a color revolution by “former” CIA will only be successful if they infect the military through sedition, defection, demoralization and psyops of every kind. Both the public and civilians are targets of this evil
On the eve of Veterans Day, Democrats and Thomas Massie tried to impeach War Secretary Pete Hegseth. It failed, 211–204.
Rubio said why they want him gone: "We work for America. We don't work for the global order."
@SJKokinda on the body count that global order left behind, and Trump's alternative 👇
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