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Spoonie Stories: Mikayla Broussard
I have never been a stranger to pain. I was born with hip dysplasia and have HSD, which affected me through my entire childhood. My biggest journey, however, started when I was 16…
Spoonie Stories: Gracie Swicegood
I have struggled with bad abdominal pain and nausea for as long as I can remember. I have been going through trials and testings for the past 9 years. September of 2022 things started to flare up so badly to the point where I couldn’t keep any food or liquids down.
Spoonie Stories: Lisa Impey
My name is Lisa Impey and I am from a rural town in central Vermont. I am 38 years old, am married, and have an 8-year-old daughter. My story is not unlike the stories of many others who have walked the rare disease path. This is my story of how my rare illnesses were eventually found, diagnosed, and treated. Throughout it all I have had the cute designs from Spoonie Sister Shop to represent my journey.
About 2 years after the birth of my daughter Abbigail, I developed this strange pain in my upper abdomen.
Spoonie Stories: Lara Cooper
My journey begun in 2022 when I was at a friend's house and passed out 4 times. Her sister is a nurse and I had a BP of 60/50 and a HR of 175 so she took me to the ER. There I lost function and feeling of my legs.
Spoonie Stories: Michelle Griffith
My story started in a similar manner to countless recollections I’ve read online: a teenage girl was seemingly healthy one day and sick the next.
I was an athlete my whole life, with only a few minor symptoms in childhood that were easily waved off at the time.
Then when I was 18, everything changed.
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