I love to swim in the ocean. It is where I wanted to die.
Read MoreFor a long time after that appointment with that chiropractor in 2006 who told me I had this weird thing I had been born with of joints bending backwards, the words “Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome” haunted me. I couldn’t say them.
Read MoreBy the time I was diagnosed, I had been practically bedridden with pain and fatigue for a few years. I say “practically” because with the taser-like pain in my spine, I couldn’t lie down, sit, or stay in any position for long, not even lying in bed, no matter how tired I was.
Read MoreWhat would I do without Dr. Plance? Is there any other doctor out there who would write me a prescription for injectable vitamin C?
Read MoreIf I had only joined the circus, I would have been one of the freaky back benders. Eww.
My small joints are my biggest problems. Feet, hands, spine, ouch, ouch, ouch.
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