May 14th, 2014 at 04:46am
What a beautiful chapter. I'm sort of glad that you didn't write the entire funeral. I think it would have been too much, emotion wise, and just skimming over it the way you did is amazing. And I'm glad the phone call from Brian's dad in the previous chapter wasn't for bad news haha I was so worried! It was sweet of Brian's family to fly down for the funeral. But now I'd worried again because of the police showing up. My first thought was: holy, holy, holy crap, did that idiot Joseph go to the police to try to press assault charges against Brian or some such malarcky? But no, I'm choosing to believe that that isn't what happened because neither of them can handle that crap, so it must be because of her mother. Right? RIGHT?!
I had no idea you had vasculitis. That just blows my mind. You're so young, especially to have a form that's so damn rare and somewhat unknown. Do you mind if I ask how old you were when you were diagnosed? And I imagine your pregnancy must have been considered high risk because of it, right?
So, the story of my diagnosis. is long and drawn out, but I'll sum it up. I was in my final year at college, going through my internship in a fourth grade classroom. To say shit was crazy, is an understatement. The short is that while I was in high school I got really sick and lost a lot of weight really quick, the first manifestation of my disease though it wasn't known to be that at the time. During my internship those symptoms returned along with pain in my left side (which was later attributed to an embolism that resolved itself) anyway, it was 3 days before Christmas and a week after I graduated college, I was 25 and told I had a disease that was both rare and seemed extensive at the time.
From then on my life became about getting healthy.
My pregnancy was 3 years of planning and mine months of worries and waiting. Given the nature of the damage done to my aorta, I was very high risk. But I had a huge team of some of the best doctors, both on and off the main scene and things went so much better than ever expected.