A personal journey through repeated lung collapses, surgery, medical dismissal, rib instability, infections, and finally receiving an Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome diagnosis.
A personal story about back and hip pain, overwork, physiotherapy, walking, gardening, and how recovery became possible only after life finally slowed down.
I lived through two hip replacements separated by twenty years. What changed was not only medicine but how pain, preparation, therapy and resilience reshaped my life.
A de-identified personal story about chronic pain, constant work urgency, burnout, nervous-system exhaustion, and the slower kind of recovery that only started once rest became real instead of theoretical.
