My life so far has been quite an adventure. I am lucky in a million ways, but I have also had to go through some really difficult stuff to get here. So Grit to keep going when days feel impossible, to get almost all the way to broken but to believe in the magic of life just enough to find a way back.
And Glitter because I have gotten more chances than most to see life’s magic. Because I am a little on the “extra” side and the older I get the more I embrace and lean into my unique sparkle.
I believe that we are all a burden and a blessing at some point… but that getting the chance to use the first to be the second is one of the greatest joys in this life.
Yesterday, just a few hours before my life-altering surgery to get a permanent ostomy, I was anxious but ready. I had been doing the mental and emotional work in therapy, I had physically prepared which involved not eating for more than 24 hours, taking mega-doses of antibiotics that made me extremely nauseous, and taking multiple…
I find myself once again facing a life-altering surgery and the one thing I know for certain is that the only guarantee is change. But we aren’t strangers, change and I. I have had a series of unique and bizarre health challenges over the last 12 years and they have essentially altered what I know…
My emotions have been so close to the surface that talking about my new diagnosis and treatment plan has been hard. And while it is still raw, I am in a space now where I can at least write about it.
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Samantha and Olivia are both writers and activists.
Grit with Glitter 