Brittany, long time lurker, finally ready

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Brittany, long time lurker, finally ready

Postby sourstraw » 25 May 2014, 03:01

One more crazy american has joined your group. I'm Brittany, 30, married mom of one witty six-year-old girl.

My interests have been building and driving fast cars since I was 15, racing in many forms, mainly European cars. My husband founded a company in 1998 designing and manufacturing performance BMW parts, that's how we first met. It took me a mistaken marriage and a few dozen more cars before we ended up married and crazy happy.

My other hobbies include cooking, reading, firearms and shooting sports, home audio and entertainment, I am also an adrenaline junkie.

My spinal issues began when I was 15. It's a really long story I am happy to share over PM but basically I've had four back surgeries and most recently I decided to have a Spinal Cord Stimulator implanted to help manage some of my peripheral neuropathy. The nerve pain is in both legs. As far as my ability, I can walk with a walker or cane but bear too much weight on them. I can do that for 2-5 minutes before the pain is unbearable. I take enough pain medications to kill a horse which helps roughly 30% of my pain. I began using a chair about eight months ago. If it weren't for that I wouldn't be able to have a life outside of bed at all. I realize I am lucky to have regained bladder control and that I can stand even for a few minutes, I just wanted to share why I use a chair, not trying to minimize anyone else's condition or injury. My condition stems from hereditary conditions and will continue to get worse.

My husband has been awesome, I lost bladder control overnight just five weeks after our wedding. He has been by my side through it all and I am glad I decided to date one of my guy friends... Despite losing my career and all the things that used to make up my life, I have been finding new interests and sources of happiness. As you can probably tell, this is pretty new to me so forgive me if anything I've said seems ungrateful. I still get to live vicariously through my husband's builds, although I can no longer turn wrenches or crawl under a car like I used to. I can still drive some and that brings me immense joy, but nothing comes close to being able to say yes when my daughter asks me to do something with her.

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