Hi there!
It’s hard to write an “About Me” page when I am still trying to figure out who I am. Here are things that I know about myself:
- My name is Megan.
- I am a Daughter of God.
- I am a wife.
- I am a mother/caregiver of a daughter with special needs.
My journey of losing myself started on the most sacred yet distressing days of my life- the day our beautiful daughter was born. After a traumatic birthing experience coupled with becoming a mom, I was in a vulnerable place. I felt empty, exhausted, and NUMB. In the middle of trying to navigate through these emotions, life decided to take an unexpected turn; our daughter started having unexplained health problems. This led to us being thrown into the medical world- multiple doctor’s appointments and hospital stays. Multiple DNA tests, MRI’s, EEG’s, EKG’s… and regardless of all the efforts put towards finding a diagnosis, we are still left in the unknown. We are now part of the undiagnosed diseases world.
Those feelings of emptiness, exhaustion, and numbness that I mentioned before? Yep, they are still here and they never left. Sadly enough, I ended up shaping my identity around those emotions. I have been completely stripped of my dreams, my expectations, and my story. What I once had written out in my mind on what life would look like, now are empty pages. I have lived in these empty pages for too long now.
It is time to write my unwritten story.
