Margaret’s Yolo brain healing journey

Hi! I’m Margaret. Thank you for supporting me in my healing journey! You are probably here because either you’re friends with    someone who knows me or you just        happened to see my van Yolo -ing across    the country ,or even around town.                Whatever your reason for being here,      I thank you because you are helping me        keep my home and lifestyle.

    I’m originally from Maine and I ended up getting a brain injury in the police academy over 10 years ago. My symptoms, ( I lost      use of my left arm and leg,  they didn’t  stop working for almost a year ) consequently I was misdiagnosed as having MS.                        It has been a really rough road THINKING  that I’m going to get worse as time goes on.   Also, a little bit more of a backstory I have a 23 year history of having an addiction  to    bulimia. This addiction was going on both  when I got diagnosed and after. It was a  horrible addiction that took most of my life from me.   After having “MS “ for 10 years   Along with the addiction problem, I found myself very depressed with no where to   turn. I begin to pray for a solution even though I didn’t believe in God and the time.  I heard that the smartest thing for me to do would be to sell my car buy a minivan and move into it. Basically I wanted to Yolo (it  means you only live once), while  I still   could. I wanted to go out and see as much  of the US as I could before I couldn’t do it  myself anymore , and hopefully find my        place and my purpose in this world and   even more, hopefully heal what was wrong with me. Let me tell you,this has been an  incredible journey! My van Yolo has given me my sobriety. I have learned so much about myself and what I can handle. My  favorite place in this country is Sedona and so it is where I tend to stay the most  because I love hiking. It makes me feel so    good about myself. It doesn’t matter what  hike I choose there is always someone to     come along in case I can’t finish it by myself which is pretty awesome! This lifestyle has given me my life back in so many ways and THEN I meet a neurological scientist who   tells me this definitely is not MS. I’ve never had an MS symptom. Upon studying me he told me this was definitely from my blow to the head. The only blows to the head I ever took when when I was learning how to fight in the police academy 10 years ago. I got  a concussion and was told that I was  just exhausted and so it went untreated. But  this is not a sob story ! He tells me I can  heal this! It’s going to be a long road with    extensive physical therapy and diet        changes. I’m confident after coming this       far, God/ the universe/Spirit Guide (    whatever you believe) hasn’t brought me this far to drop me. That being said, I’m in a bit of  trouble because my van home is dying and  it’s   extremely small which is not conducive to   doing  physical therapy for my healing    the   stress is not helping either. I’ve had  multiple issues ;basically every other week. I’m trying to raise enough money to pay off the debt so that I used to fix this current     van and purchase a new van that has no      problems and hopefully which is a lot  bigger.

Please help support me in this journey. I’ve already ditched a dirty diagnosis AND   kicked an even dirtier addiction. Please  help me keep this lifestyle for myself while I’m healing from this! Please share this        with his many people as possible and             hopefully as frequently as you feel  comfortable. I have a big goal here but nothing is too big for God. Please help me  keep my independence.