HG Matters Issue 1 | Page 12

After suffering from HG, it can be very easy to get bogged down in the negative. It’s hard not to talk about the depression, Incessant fluid infusions, unrelenting nausea and vomiting, and so on. To add insult to injury, you really don’t get a choice whether to wear that HG Survivor badge or not. Surprise! You are handed that HG card and are forced to deal with it. FORCED! My life hasn’t always been peaches and cream, but thinking back, being FORCED to endure hardships has really shaped my life. So now that I have a bit of space from my last, and FINAL, HG experience I can look back on what HG has given to me.

Yes! What HG has GIVEN to me!

By: Cynthia Thomas

HG

GAVE

I am the kind of person who likes to do things on my own.

Whether it is because I want to feel the satisfaction of

accomplishing things on my own, or because I don’t want to feel indebted to others (or let down if they don’t follow

through), it has always been difficult for me to ask for help.

When I felt the crushing weight on my shoulders, I would push

through it on my own. Well, having HG, a toddler, and a husband

that was just switching jobs (therefore a constantly changing work

schedule), O.B. appointments, infusion appointments, not being able to drive, or shop, or cook, or the million other things I could no longer do, I HAD TO ASK FOR HELP!

First, it has forced me to learn how to ask for help.

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