From September 8th to the 14th is Invisible Illness Awareness Week. I don't necessarily have an illness, but I do have a disability that isn't visible. To look at me, you'd just see a fat chick. To see me walk, nothing. The only time you might notice something is if I'm holding something, and it shakes.
Three of my vertebrae have declared war on my spinal cord. They're shifting in unpleasant ways, causing nerves to be pinched, and muscles and tendons to become tight and strained. the middle one, which is in the middle of my neck is actually pinching into my spinal cord. From the outside, I'm just someone who pops a lot of pills and says that she's in pain.
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Three of my vertebrae have declared war on my spinal cord. They're shifting in unpleasant ways, causing nerves to be pinched, and muscles and tendons to become tight and strained. the middle one, which is in the middle of my neck is actually pinching into my spinal cord. From the outside, I'm just someone who pops a lot of pills and says that she's in pain.
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