I introduced myself awhile ago, but...
Since I wrote my introduction, I have not been able to find it.
So I am going to aim to do so again.
I'll start off with the fact that I am the State of California captain.
Since the legislature drop in day in November, which was life experience and major eye opener, of itself!
Since then I have been honored by being asked to be an admin here.
A lot of people may know me from Facebook, or Twitter.
I also helped coordinate and spoke at the California Rally in Sacramento
I'm an admin for a couple of groups on Facebook, but am not sure how long those groups will remain.
A little about myself; at 16, I was a lifeguard and got my foot caught in a hole, on the outside of a pool, when I needed to get to a young boy, fast.
I had a cast put on too tight and it killed the nerves and cut off the circulation.
240 + operations, 3 amputations, pulmonary embolism (2), every vertebrae is either broken, fractured or collapsed. A partial hip replacement and the other side is needed, as is my knee.
10 bouts of osteomyletis, well 11 now.
CRPS, full body, with organ involvement/failure and the damage to my nervous system has reached my brain, affecting my cognitive abilities
But before April 29th, 2017 as I was exiting my home, to end my life ( 40 years of sheer hell, meds suddenly stopped in Nov 2016), by April, I was done!
Not because I wanted it that way, by any means. But my mailman met me on my doorstep, with my first package of kratom.
Before that, I had been bedridden for 10+ years, on deathsdoor, far too many times to count. You all can fill in the " other perks" of chronic pain/ illness/ mental illness.
About 12 years after the injury, I had my first amputation, 2 months later I was in college, a year later, accepted into A major University, which also had medical school.
2, a little over 2 months shy of my M.D. I had to take a medical leave of absence and wasn't able to return.
Since Kratom, I am pretty much out of bed every day, been out of the house, I WENT CAMPING ( only 1 night, but I DID IT😁😁😁😁). I have my daughter and grandkids back in my life. I have a man whom I love ( we're experiencing some trials since I am no longer 100 % dependent on him for every single thing, but we'll see❣)
I have HOPE, QUALITY OF LIFE AND After 40 years, I no longer have that GREY veiled, shell of existence-
AFTER not being expected to reach the age of 25,... 35.. and most definitely not beyond 45..
I'll soon be 56. So I will have to think of something else to say, because for the last year, I have been saying "I'm 55 and ALIVE."
Well so much for short; yet for those who know me, aren't surprised by this! 🙄
For those who wonder, Dijon is also A womans name...
You pronounce it MUS- TARD
.. 😏😁😁 NO, it's pronounced DEON
BUT I answer to many names.. lol
I look forward to getting to know all of you!
Out of curiosity, if any Ca residents are in here, would you please introduce yourselves to me?
Thank you
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