Mugger Stats
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Member Type: Mugger
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Profile Views: 563 views
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Friends: 3 friends
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Last Update: December 8, 2019
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Joined: October 10, 2019
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Screen Name*
AspieGirl88
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Gender*
Female
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Where do you live?
Northern Ireland
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About Me:
I'm 31 years old with Aspergers Syndrome and live with my mum as my main carer. I've suffered a lot of disabilities and health problems for the majority of my life. But not only have I survived sepsis alongside emergency ileostomy and tracheotomy surgeries, I have recently had a below-knee amputation for my right leg and foot (in which I've suffered 10 years of CRPS that has since confined me to a wheelchair). Luckily, I'm a fighter. My stump has since healed well and I hope to learn to walk again someday, even if it's only short distances. I have 3 older sisters (2 of whom are registered as my part-time carers) as well as 3 nieces, 4 nephews and 1 great-nephew. All of them have really been supporting me through this. I also had a baby rabbit who I named 'Tardis', but he sadly had to be put to sleep not long after Christmas 2018, aged 10 months and 24 days old (he suffered GI stasis, which is almost always fatal for rabbits). He was my baby, so I sometimes still find myself grieving for him. I can't get another rabbit either, as my mum couldn't cope with another just yet. So, yeah. There's a LOT going on in my life right now...
PS- I forgot to mention that I also suffer PTSD, from the time I almost died of sepsis. I was trapped in a coma for 5 weeks and had very realistic, frightening visions that made me feel like I'd died and was in some kind of purgatory (because I couldn't wake up and I'd lost all sense of reality). I don't remember the first time waking, but they told me I was so distressed that I tried to rip out my trachea, so they had to put me under again. The second time waking wasn't any less upsetting, as one of the scenarios I recall during the coma led me to believe my mum was dead; so I naturally broke down in tears when I saw my mum beside my bed in ICU. I've had flashbacks since, where I'd wake and see the ICU ward instead of my bedroom and I'd really feel the trachea tube in my throat. Other times, I'd have flashbacks of when I was trapped in the coma and seeing those terrible visions. Sudden lights flashing on and off or sudden loud noises that remind me of either being in hospital or within the coma visions; these will trigger my PTSD and either leave me crying my eyes out and trembling or else I'd be in a catatonic state (until someone touches me on the arm or shoulder, causing me to scream in fright and then start crying/hyperventilating). I used to be okay with my baby rabbit to quickly hel
