Pop and Circumstance: My second stroke of med school.

I burst into tears. I had come to and come to the realization that I had not passed Step 2. I couldn’t graduate just yet. Why do I keep going? How am I still here? I had survived…TWICE. I apparently did it wrong the first time and didn’t…

Pop and Circumstance: Baby death

“Hey, Ashley!” NOOOOOOOOO I had been here too long. didn’t need to know other physical and occupational therapists but my own. They know my Dad. I need to be home. They want to get me back to 95%, but can I even do that? Is my neuroplasticity that good? Is it that…

The First Time

There was that one scary time I realized I was stroking…the first time

Pop and Circumstance: The First Time

“CAN’T SEE THE NET OF NETFLIX, BABE. I’M HAVING A STROKE. WE NEED TO GO TO THE ER.” I yelled to…

Pop and Circumstance: I a Gonner

it is so painful watching your peers surpass you in something you were also aiming for. “That could’ve been me.” You think. I look at a headstone and also state: “That could’ve been me.” I stay in this limbo daily. I play the shoulda- coulda-woulda game, then abruptly end…