Welcome To Resilient Ordinary Woman!
I’m navigating a brain shunt, recovery from bilateral carpal tunnel surgery, Morton’s neuroma, and midlife weight shifts – all at once. I’m sharing my personal survival tips to help you find your footing when life gets heavy.
What I Write About :The Four Pillars Of My Story
- Shunt Life: Living with a neurological “new normal” and staying positive through the brain fog.
- The Mobility Path: My real-talk guide to managing Morton’s neuroma and walking through the pain.
- Hands & Healing: Carpal Tunnel Surgery recovery tips from bilateral carpal tunnel surgery (because doing everything with two bandaged hands is a mission!).
- The Midlife Shift: Managing weight and hormones when your body feels like a stronger.
Why I’m still Positive
Despite the fact that all these issues are hard to live with, they don’t define who I am. I am not just “surviving”, I am learning, everyday to thrive with them.
Why Do I Even Write About My Health Issues?
I have actually done this before, back in 2021, I wrote about Mortons Neuroma Survival. Then I got bilateral Carpal Tunnel and I stopped writing and painfully let my website go. After trying non-surgical treatments which only offered me temporary relief, I finally had Carpal Tunnel Release surgeries done, one hand after the other.
I found it hard workout, gained weight, add peri-menopause to that…fast-forward to 2025 when I was diagnosed with a huge Arachnoid Cyst on the right front side of my brain that needed immediate brain shunt surgery.
That was successfully done in May 2025 and now I decided that since I have gotten myself a “new” brain, why not share all my health challenges and how I cope with them.
I am by no means “healed” yet, but I would like to share with you my healing journey experiences. I take my time, no rush. Because some days I am not feeling very well so I put my computer away and I rest. What I vow not to do is to just sit and wallow in my health challenges. I will keep sharing, slowly. For me, it is all about walking this journey as positively as I possibly can…
My passion has always been to help other people. If you are here and going through and of these issues, you aren’t alone in the medical chaos. We are in it together to survive, resiliently together. Please, let us walk this path together.
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Please note that I am NOT a medical professional, everything I share here is from my personal experiences and research as a patient, not medical advice”