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New Surgery Dates 🙌🏼
Well it's about effing time, right? I started the process to get my spinal cord stimulators wayyyyyy back in November, which included...
Kim Bryan
Jun 7, 20202 min read
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Dystonia
Ugh. Worst experience ever. I had to walk so far from car to lobby at a hospital and then twice that distance to the outpatient...
Kim Bryan
Jun 3, 20201 min read
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Starting Over
Here we are in June of 2020. At this point, I SHOULD be mostly recovered from BOTH spinal implants and starting some occupational and...
Kim Bryan
Jun 2, 20201 min read
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4 Week Fear
Ok, so I wrote this post LAST Sunday, but I just didn't want to jinx it, so I never published the post. Now that we are a solid week out,...
Kim Bryan
May 24, 20202 min read
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Neutropenic Fever
Last Friday, I started getting a low grade fever. What didn't make sense to me was that I was on antibiotics, so I shouldn't have an...
Kim Bryan
Apr 24, 20202 min read
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Staying Focused on the Present
It's been a while since I have been home from my meningitis scare, but it's not over. I am feeling better, one of the two incisions is...
Kim Bryan
Apr 20, 20202 min read
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But Did You Die? Nope.
So, last week I almost died. It doesn't even feel completely real when I put it into words. And the craziest thing is that this all...
Kim Bryan
Apr 2, 20204 min read
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Home Sweet Home (6 of 6)
Its Friday. And I have ow been in the hospital for 5 days. And today, I have heard that I might be going home today.... maybe...
Kim Bryan
Mar 29, 20202 min read
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Isolation (5 of 6)
Some of you are locked up with your families like I was and I thought that was isolation. How about being in the hospital without your...
Kim Bryan
Mar 29, 20202 min read
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Recovery (4 of 6)
Two days after surgery and I am tired. I am feeling toll this has all taken on my body. It was pushed physically and emotionally to such...
Kim Bryan
Mar 29, 20201 min read
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New Life & New Meltdown (3 of 6)
I woke up early and was not in complete pain. But I was afraid. Afraid to lift my head. Afraid to sit up. Afraid to stand. Afraid my head...
Kim Bryan
Mar 29, 20202 min read
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March 24th (2 of 6)
Originally today should have been the day I got my 2nd implant installed. So in some sick irony, my first one is going to be removed...
Kim Bryan
Mar 29, 20203 min read
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36th Birthday (1 of 6)
I woke up with my muscles in my body so intensely stiff and seizing, that I actually couldn't do anything about it. And, so I just tried...
Kim Bryan
Mar 29, 20203 min read
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Birthday Reflections
The night before my 36th birthday and I go to bed thinking... How grateful I am that my family is healthy (and no fevers, just checked!)...
Kim Bryan
Mar 29, 20201 min read
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One Week Post-Op
It's been seven days since I had the stimulator put in for my legs. And, I wish I could tell you it's working. I wish I could tell you I...
Kim Bryan
Mar 10, 20203 min read
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Surgery Day!
Today, I woke up as a human in my cheetah onesie and will be going to bed as a cyborg! Everything went as planned, except the surgery...
Kim Bryan
Mar 3, 20201 min read
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The Guilt of Pain
I could write a whole other blog on the pain of guilt, but that's not what I am talking about today. I have discovered there are...
Kim Bryan
Mar 2, 20203 min read
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Ready to Start Healing
As if I wasn't already 100% sure that the spjnal cord stimulator is going to be the right decision gor me and my family, God sure made...
Kim Bryan
Mar 2, 20201 min read
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Second Thoughts About Going Under the Knife
I think any sane person would at some point have cold feet about doctors messing with their spine. Right? Or second thoughts about...
Kim Bryan
Feb 23, 20202 min read
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SCS Permanent - It's Happening!
It's been exactly one week since I had the SCS trial removed. My body finally started to readjust to my pain levels and I went to Arizona...
Kim Bryan
Feb 16, 20201 min read
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