Diagnosis...Gastroparesis
A downloadable e-book. Chapter Six of Chronically Alive: A Story of Sick
After my emergency surgery the whole genre of my health care changed. Suddenly I was no longer just a psych patient that couldn't be trusted, I was a sweet patient that had been through trauma and needed to be coddled. When they started running tests again I was worried that once again this was the beginning of the end, but this time they did a gastric emptying study and an endoscopy and I was diagnosed with gastroparesis. My smile almost split my face open as I sat there while the GI doctor explained to my parents that I did not have an eating disorder, I hadn't been eating becase my stomach was paralyzed and couldn't digest food.
I stopped smiling when the doctor explained that they would have to place another tube down my nose to feed me, but that this one would go all the way down to my small intestine and i would have to have that tube there a very long time at home. But would this be enough to end Foor Wars III at home?
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Despite my terminal illness and childhood onset schizoaffective disorder, I have earned a BA in writing from Elms College and published two full length young adult novels designed to validate, inspire and instill hope in the world of chronic physical and mental illness and the entire community that supports us
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Schizoaffective Disorder at Harding Hospital
An Exclusive Event About the Realities of Schizoaffective Disorder
This exciting and exclusive event brings you a thrilling reading from Becca Pava’s world-renowned YA book, “Was I Ever Normal”, another one of Becca’s book that exposes the true reality of schizoaffective disorder This reading contains edits and additions not found in the book. They can only be heard in this event.
“Welcome To Harding Hospital” will be read by the author herself (who also suffers from schizoaffective disorder) followed by an optional Q&A session.
Slitting Her Left Wrist
Cassie has undiagnosed schizoaffective disorder. After her dad brings her to Psych Crisis for the second time in two weeks, her hallucinations convince her to slit her left wrist while waiting in the waiting room. Once the Crisis Clinician finds out that she slit her wrist with a piece of broken beer bottle she’s been carrying around in her sweatshirt pocket for months he begins a psychiatric bed search.
Headed to Harding Hospital
Four hours later she’s in an ambulance headed to Harding Hospital. But there’s something different about this hospital. Something hopeful. Sign up for the event to find out what.
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