A Bionic Blog
2025 was a weird year for yr Auntie. They sustained a spinal cord injury, as well as significant nerve root damage from post-disc rupture and surgery damage culminating in 2023. Two years post-injury is about where you learn what kind of permanent changes your body has made, and where you start to settle into your "new normal," which for Auntie includes chronic migraines, leg tremors, and balance problems requiring multiple mobility aids for different situations. Or, they would be settling into their body, if their arthritic hip didn't need replacing.
Auntie's "new normal" body includes allergies to absolutely everything in the environment (yes, even cats! But not dust mites, for some reason...), and five of the most common food allergies out there. This adds a definite complication to the surgery and post-op process! Which means that meal prepping, and pre-packaged "safe" snacks are essential. As you might expect, eating clean and minimal means that another "new normal" for Auntie's body is that it's 50+ lbs lighter than it was a year ago.
Auntie's "new normal" also includes a hair growth journey using natural, traditional products for scalp stimulation and length retention on their fine, highly porous 3B-C curls that are newly un-dyed. This has resulted in crazy fast growth!
Perimenopause has also entered yr Auntie's world, and they've never been shy about talking about what's happening in their cis-female body, no matter how gross. And making it less gross is definitely a priority of Auntie's.
This blog started as a personal project, documenting the minutae of the major surgery process as a patient, but writing personal essays on the topics du jour has made the pre-op days go by quickly, so you'll get weird Auntie advice from that chronically ill, middle aged feminist kind of perspective along with reports on Auntie's hair length, cats, and other life and health happenings by following along with the blog.
