THE BEGINNING OF MY PERSONAL HEALTH CRISIS

Let's pick back up on my life when I last shared in the blog before the last one. After the police came we were able to get the bumper off the drivers side front tire of Mark's truck and I drove on to work. I know now the adrenaline didn't let me feel my injuries that day. As each day passed my neck began bothering me more and more and my low back too.

I have said before the car accident was kinda like the straw that broke the camels back. All my life I had not dealt with things that happened. I just stuffed my emotions and pain down and kept going. Two years prior I had lost my mother and my first husband within 3 months of each other. A year before that I made a decision to step down from my management position at work. I go into more detail about this period in a previous blog. Honestly, I believe I had a nervous breakdown and never sought help when this happened. So many things from the time I was born and raised by my alcoholic mom up until this time at the age of 34 had happened.

I know now looking back this period after the accident was a death and rebirth period like we are going through now as a collective. The universe said okay Wendy it's time. I had thought up until this period losing my husband of 10 years to cancer was the hardest thing I had ever been through. It wasn't. My own health issues proved to be far more difficult.

I began seeing a chiropractor for relief. I would be better for a day or two then right back the pain came. This is also the period I began having insomnia. I went from when the accident happened in July 1999 till January of 2000 and I continually gotten worse. I began having pain throughout my body. My hands and feet would go numb too.

I eventually saw a regular doctor and was referred to a neurologist. CT scans and MRI's, all kinds of blood test, nerve conduction test and more. I eventually was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. I had 3 disc bulging in my neck and one in my low back. I had not missed work but in January 2000 I had to come out on medical leave. I went through chiropractic care and physical therapy and eventually returned to work in October of that year.

I was always a hard worker. I had began working part time in high school and went to work full time right after I graduated early in February 1983. I had no idea at the time when I return to work in October of 2000 that it would be just one year later when I no longer was able to work.