Episode Details

We share a raw 10-year timeline of my chronic health issues, from the first night of tachycardia to surgeries, setbacks, and the daily reality of managing symptoms that never fully leave. I also talk about how fear, anxiety, faith, and community shape how I survive and why I keep choosing to show up anyway. 
• the first tachycardia event and the panic of not knowing why 
• endoscopy results, H. pylori treatment, and ongoing GERD and regurgitation 
• cardiology testing, abnormal EKG worries, and being told to consider catheter ablation 
• the emotional trauma around surgery, then learning my heart is healthy 
• Nissen fundoplication, hiatal hernia mesh, and why the first stomach surgery did not hold 
• the LINX device, graduate school decline, insomnia, depression, and constant chest pressure 
• slow recovery through walking goals and learning to calm the mental battle 
• getting saved, navigating COVID fear, and building strength through church community 
• prostatitis, urologist diagnosis, antibiotics, and unexpected symptom connections 
• chest tightness after lifting, an ER dismissal, and using stretching to breathe again 
• sinusitis, nose breathing problems, fatigue, and the compounding effect on swallowing 
• being told to live with it, then choosing purpose, hope, and responsibility anyway 
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