How Chaos Has Affected My Life Journey: Maybe Even Made My Life Journey Better!

I hope that you can find joy and peace through reading my words. I don’t have a lot of life experience but I have experienced a lot of life. I have heard far too often, “You’re so young, just wait until you’re xx”.

One of the biggest struggles that I face, is thinking that no one knows my struggle. No one knows how I feel. No one knows the things I go through. Well, if I feel all of those things and so much more then I know for a fact that other people feel that way too. It’s kind of like in middle school when your teachers tell you that there is no such thing as a dumb question because if you are thinking it, chances are that someone else is thinking it too.

I truly hope that while reading my words, you can find a little bit of light in whatever darkness you face. However, before I share my darkness with you…here are some facts about me 🙂

• At 18 years old, I moved six hours away from home to Hattiesburg, Mississippi. 
• I moved away to attend The University of Southern Mississippi, where I met many wonderful people and some pretty great professors.
• I survived covid in 2020 without ever testing positive or missing work.
• In 2020, I got a double kidney infection and ended up in acute kidney failure.
• I made lasting relationships in Hattiesburg but my time was cut short after being sexually assaulted and moving back home in spring of 2021.
• After moving back home, I began applying to become a flight attendant.
• I was offered a job at Skywest Airlines and flew to Salt Lake City, Utah.
• In fall 2021, I spent 32 days in Flight Attendant training and received my wings at completion.
• After spending 32 days along with a lot of time to think, I decided to go back to school.
• In October, after almost 2 months of not receiving my first flight attending schedule, I decided to apply at Brigham Young University – Idaho. 
• In December of 2021, I began packing to move to Rexburg, Idaho.
• I made the trip with my mom to live in my first ever dorm, with roommates other than my sister, for the first time at 22 (almost 23).
• In January of ‘22, I began college classes at BYUI.
• I met my now husband in January and went on our first date on January 23rd, 2022.
• My husband and I got engaged on my husband’s golden birthday 11/22/22 turning 22. 
• In December 2022, I began planning for a wedding and applying for internships.
• We got married on…January 23, 2023…and had our ceremony on February 14th, 2023. 
• My husband and I went on a cruise to the Bahamas for our honeymoon. 
• I graduated college in April of 2023.
• I began getting sick in July of 2023.
• In October of 2023, after 24 vials of blood and more x rays than I can count, I was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis. 
• In November 2023, I began my full time position at Sevita Health as a Clinical Specialist.
• In January of 2024, I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis and started Enbral injections.
• In April 2024, I received my acceptance letter from Kairos University to begin my master’s program in Marriage and Family Therapy.
• In June of 2024, I was diagnosed with Hashimoto.
• In July of 2024, I was diagnosed with autoimmune small fiber neuropathy and started treatment for fibromyalgia.
• In September of 2024, I began my masters program.
• That brings us to October 2024, when I started my blog for all of you.