About me!

I’m a 23-year-old book lover and boy have I had a crazy journey with my love of books. When I was younger I never liked to read I would spend summers with my grandma and she would have all the grandchildren read either three chapters or for an hour whatever came first, I would be the one on the couch asleep because she didn’t want to read anymore. In the end, my grandma gave up trying to make me read, decided it wasn’t for me, and had me do worksheets instead. I would fly through all the worksheets, then go outside to play.

Later on in life, I was struggling with school. I went to so many doctor’s appointments and they told me I had ADD, so I tried every medication and every strength of the medication. I felt like a zombie, and nothing helped. So I stopped taking it and I still continued to struggle. I was missing school because I couldn’t drag myself out of bed most days. I wasn’t on track to graduate, so why show up right?

In my freshman year of high school, I played softball, which was the only reason I truly went to school. I made the bare minimum grades to stay on the team. I went to a small school with no programs to help me with my education. I would spend up to 6 hours trying to understand the work I was given but yet again bare minimum.

I tore my rotator cuff and dislocated my shoulder during optional practice. Go figure, right? I still played on an injury and finished out my season after that my doctor advised me that if I were to continue playing I would permanently damage my shoulder, well I was still young enough to play little league during my freshman year so I played another season, I now have nerve damage in my shoulder and I ruined my chances of possibly getting some scholarships to college for softball, I had scouts coming to watch me while I played my freshman year and that last year of little league.

My sophomore year things got worse and I couldn’t play softball so I had no reason to try, so you can probably tell how the junior year was going to go, but on the 4th of July, I went fishing with my dad who accidentally hooked me in the back. He felt terrible but it saved my life.

My dad and I were about 30 minutes from home, I was laughing about the whole thing but by the time we got home and attempted to remove the treble hook from my back on our own, my adrenaline was gone and I was in some pain at that point.

So we went to the emergency room, they took my vitals and after they removed the hooks (they had to find bolt cutters from the maintenance guy) the doctor asked me if I was feeling okay because my heart rate was so high it was 155 and I said yes I’m fine, but then he looked back at my charts and said my heart rate has always been high even when I go in for stomach pains. He recommended that we have my thyroid levels tested.

So we did a follow-up with my primary doctor and they couldn’t even see my levels on a chart and the same week I was referred to an Endocrinologist. She diagnosed me with Graves’ Disease, which was the worst case she had seen. My body was starting to shut down at that point, so she debated emitting me to the hospital for 2 weeks or letting me go home with strict instructions.

I got to go home thankfully. So I got started on medication to help control my Graves’ and I started doing better in school like a full 180 I was getting A’s and B’s. In December 2018, I chose to have my thyroid removed completely because it still wasn’t under control and I should’ve been in remission for a year.

I woke up a completely different person from my surgery, Which leads me to now I suppose, I can always be found editing my books list I’m in search of, listening to audible, sitting on the couch reading a book, or soaking up the sun in my hammock with a book.

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