If I would've known then...

[GrammaDah]

I'm a 51yr old mother of 1 girl, 30, & 1 boy, 25. My daughter has a 2.5yr old girl I call Crazy Daisy. She is a mini me. Myself, my daughter & granddaughter live together in a suburb of Minneapolis. I'm married but we don't live together. It just works best like this. Yet, he is a huge support for me, he can also be a pain, lol.

I have a disease called ET ( Essential Tremors), along with numerous other medical & mental conditions, that fall-in later in my life. The more I learn about my ET, the more my life is starting to take shape. It makes connecting my mental health 'dots' much easier.

I have several mental health diagnosis; bi-polar II, ADHD, social anxiety, panic attacks, agorophobia​.

& also PTSD from a sever auto accident which caused 23 broken bones, crushing pelvic & hip which disconnected my leg internally, they had to keep my leg in traction til the internal bleeding was controlled. Broke my left arm completely in half, frostbite bad enough to put me in the burn unit in intensive care for some time. Though I did climb over console & then dragged myself over 30" up a hill so someone would find me. That was January 2003. I was told I wouldn't ever walk again... That wasn't an option for me.

I don't have any stories of running marathons, or saving babies, or rescuing animals... No hoopla here.

Though, more grateful then I feel that I'm alive, NO ONE else was involved. I fell asleep on a country road in the early morning. I've had such a fear all my life of falling asleep somewhere, anywhere & mostly that someone would hurt me... I'm who hurt me. Because I fell asleep.

After my accident I went shopping maybe 5x's in 2yrs. I learned to walk again in hospital before I was discharged.