My friend Ila, who also has EDS and Dysautonomia recently sent me this blog post she came across to read (If the rest of this post is going to make sense, then you should read the post from the link above first).  I read it a few times, and have thought long and hard about this person’s perspective.  I totally respect what this person has to say and her experiences with both Dysautonomia and EDS.  There are so many things she says that I found myself nodding my head in agreement to.  However, there are a few things from this post, that I would like to just bring a different perspective to.  I feel that we must keep in mind that when someone blogs, it is one person’s perspective, based on their personal and individual experiences.   


I, myself, have to realize that when I post about EDS and POTS, it is from my experiences, and my experiences only; MY symptoms, My struggles, My triumphs, and where I am on the very wide spectrum of both disorders.  I know there are going to be things I say along the way that people disagree with, but when I started this whole blogging thing, I knew that was all part of the “game.”  

Dr. Rosen asked me at my last appointment if I wished I was never diagnosed with EDS.  I was already emotional and actually got kind of angry at his question.  Without any hesitation, I snapped back that of course I wish I didn’t have EDS. 

After I left my appointment that day, it was as if Dr. Rosen’s question was haunting me.  I could not get it off of my mind.  I realized as I thought more and more about it that the answer to that question is not as black and white as I thought it was at the time.  I took that question with me to therapy.  I took it with me to Georgia.  I sent my Aunt Mada a Facebook message about it to see what her perspective was since she lives a full and active life with MS.  And then I thought about it some more. 

The following is a link to various myths and facts about Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.

http://www.ehlersdanlosnetwork.org/myths-facts.html

For the record, if anyone happened to catch the House episode recently about Ehlers Danlos, it was NOT an accurate depiction of the disease.  One woman’s blog I follow, wrote about the episode, and I found that her feelings about it happened to echo my thoughts as well. 

For my own documenting sake, I wanted to post (in my opinion) the BEST commercial from The Super Bowl.  It gave me chills and goosebumps all at the same time.  I heard it on the radio coming home from Indiana yesterday, and it made me emotional all over again~Besides making me feel such a sense of pride as a Michigander, there’s just something about that guy’s voice that gets me every time.