Why I joined 420 comes from within

This is where my story begins; 15 years old and diagnosed with an incurable disease I had never even heard of. I was diagnosed after a year or so not being able to eat or keep food inside of me. The doctor did many tests for that year until I finally found the doctor who would help me. I dropped out of high school my Sophmore year due to me absences. I was threatened to be kicked out if I didn’t show up. That same year I got on treatments. We tried every medication possible before I started getting infusions of the drug that I thought had saved me. Steady in what I thought was remission for the next 2 years I went back to school, work, graduated, got my first car but, I was missing out on so much; senior year, class trips, teams at school, hanging out and going to parties, it all was just too much energy for me to waste. I stayed home most nights or my boyfriend at the time had to wheel my wheelchair around so I could be social and not feel the pain. My treatments of remicade started to feel like they were not working. I began to loose weight again and lost 80lbs in 3 months. More testing and more treatments lead me into surgery at 20 years young that would change my life forever. I had a full ileostomy removing half of my intestines, my entire rectum/colon and putting me into an ostomy bag for the rest of my life, at only 20. I had thought my life was over and boy was I wrong!!! This was just the beginning! After I had this done I was depressed and worried no one would ever love me like this. It put me into remission and after 6 Weeks healing I was up and walking and living a normal life again.., just with a bag attached to my stomach. I needed to gain confidence and I found this through mentoring other people like me. I joined the cannabis community at 18.( I finally was able to get my appetite back from it smoking) I began to do promotion and rep in the community. Although I was weak I began to gain strength and independence through the community. They taught me what kindness was for patients. How to love someone without knowing them. I watched as 420 nurses began to make their way into the community in a bigger and bigger way! Unfortunately for me fast forward 6-7 years later I began having so much pain I became a recluse again leaving everything behind. I worked a normal “easy” job just to survive and began taking many treatments again. About 2 months ago I was told I was in pain because I was no longer in remission and I needed an exploratory sergury. I then joined 420 nurses as an outlet to keep me busy and feel confident through yet another sergury with the worst case being a feeding tube and the best case 4 weeks recovery and tiny microscopic holes. I was welcomed with open arms by Cha Cha and joined the team. I went under the knife last week and had a great amount of support and love from the Canna-fam community. I had the best case scenario in sergury. No feeding tube, no cancer, and back in remission again! Now we begin again.... a fresh new start. A jump into the cannabis community where I love to be a patient and show my love and knowledge for something that helped save my life. Truly without cannabis I don’t think I would have made it this far. From the pain relief to my appitie back I do not believe I would have stayed sane and positive enough to even be posting this right now. I am so glad I get to begin my journey with badass babes to help me build my own empire.