tiny but mighty | (Un)Diagnosed and still okay

I was sent this meme the other day and it really put this unexpected life in perspective.

As much as I hate, and I mean HATE in JC CAPS, how much Bridget has suffered in her 16 years, she not only survives she triumphs.

While Bridget battles, I admit to faltering when she has to survive the shit storm. Tethered Spinal Cord just after she came off a pediatric walker? Cue the ugly tears and emergency phone call to my BFF. Going to a pre-K all school playdate where she was knocked over on the playground and I lost it and said she was going to be homeschooled. Thankfully, this was a very brief moment until sanity restored regarding my homeschooling lack of patience which was reinforced when Covid shut down the education system.

Every 12-18m the PACS1 gift that keeps on giving creates some other storm that Bridget (and her family) will need to weather. In the past five years, Bridget has triumphed over relocating schools, Achillies tendon surgery, oral surgery and is now fighting catatonia.