Rising From The Depths - A New Beginning…
🌿 Warrior Story: Rising From the Depths — A New Beginning at TLC
Every so often, a patient walks into my virtual office whose story shakes me to my core. A story so layered with pain, medical trauma, misdiagnosis, and sheer survival that it forces us to pause and remember why we fight so fiercely for our warriors.
Today, I want to honor one of the strongest humans I have ever had the privilege of meeting — a young woman who has endured more suffering in her 26 years than most experience in a lifetime. And yet, somehow… she still fights.
She still hopes.
She is still here.
No names. No identifiers. Just strength, resilience, and truth.
🌑 A Life Hijacked by Pain
This warrior’s story began with a tick bite in childhood — ignored by a doctor who felt she was “too young” to treat. Years later came Lyme, mold exposure, trauma, and a cascade of medical harm.
When she finally reached adulthood, her body began to unravel.
A minor surgery triggered years of relentless agony:
🔹 Recurrent infections
🔹 Repeated hospitalizations
🔹 Benzo withdrawal
🔹 Medication reactions to nearly everything
🔹 Fistula surgeries, abscesses, drains
🔹 Rage episodes that weren’t her
🔹 Starvation from pain so severe she could not eat
🔹 Then binge‑eating that felt out of her control
🔹 A feeding tube
🔹 ICU level refeeding syndrome
🔹 PTSD so severe she barely recognized her own mind
🔹 A body unrecognizable to her — inflamed, swollen, betrayed
🔹 And pain… so much pain.
Her world collapsed into one impossible mission:
Survive each bowel movement. Survive the pain afterward. Survive the next day. Survive the panic. Survive her own thoughts.
This is what mold illness, Lyme, trauma, mismanaged care, and lost hope can do to a human being.
And still… she survived.
🌤️ The First Glimmer of Light
By the time she found us at TLC, she described herself as “passively suicidal.”
Not wanting to die — but not wanting to live this life.
This is where so many of my warriors begin.
She came to us vulnerable but ready to try one more time.
She told me:
“If someone doesn’t help me bring this pain down, I don’t want to be here anymore.”
And that is when I saw her fire.
Because someone who can survive this much pain…
someone who can keep fighting after every specialist has dismissed her…
someone who can push through trauma, hospitalizations, refeeding, infections, surgery after surgery, and still show up…
That is a warrior.
And warriors do not quit.
They evolve.
🌱 A New Path Forward
At TLC, we believe in rebuilding the body layer by layer — gently, safely, and with compassion.
Her plan begins with:
🌿 Reducing inflammation and calming her body
🌿 Stabilizing weight and metabolism that swung from starvation to overload
🌿 Addressing mold toxicity and chronic infection carefully and slowly
🌿 Supporting her nervous system after years of trauma
🌿 Restoring trust in her own body
🌿 Rebuilding her digestive system one step at a time
🌿 Helping her brain find safety again
She won’t heal overnight.
But for the first time in years… she has hope.
And that is the beginning of every transformation.
🌟 A Warrior Rising
This young woman is no longer the girl who lay in a hospital bed starving.
She is no longer the girl who was dismissed by doctors.
She is no longer the girl who was harmed by the very people meant to help her.
She is no longer the girl who thought pain was her destiny.
Today, she steps forward — bruised but unbroken — into a new beginning.
Here at TLC, we fight with our patients, not against them.
We listen.
We validate.
We believe.
We rebuild.
And one day soon, she will wake up and look forward to her life again — not fear it.
📣 Call to Action: You Don’t Have to Suffer Alone
If you see yourself in this story — in the exhaustion, the dismissal, the symptoms that no one has been able to piece together — please know this:
You are not crazy. You are not broken. And you are not alone.
There is always a path forward.
There is always a root cause.
There is always hope.
Reach out.
Let’s begin your healing journey.
Your story isn’t over — it’s just beginning.
🌿 The Lyday Center
Where warriors rise.