Trigger + Content Warning:
This story contains deeply personal experiences related to trauma, mental and physical illness and environmental toxicity.
I was waking up every single morning with crushing headaches. My joints hurt. My mind felt foggy. My muscles ached. I felt poisoned in a way I couldn’t describe. I had never felt this way in my life. It went far beyond normal exhaustion.
I began getting blood work done, with no result. I was terrified. I truly believed I had developed an autoimmune disease. I couldn’t explain what was happening to my body, only that something was very, very wrong. At the same time, Jordan began to have issues too. He had lived with colitis for years, but now he was experiencing the worst flare ups of his life. And then he started waking up in the mornings and coughing up
