Today, October 7, is #TrigeminalNeuralgia awareness day. We are painting the day teal for awareness to this painful disease that not many know about. My sister LaQuisha Dionne suffers from this disease and if you don't know about, inform yourself today! For months, we watched her suffer and couldn’t help. I prayed for God to let me share the pain because I knew it was too much for her yet she endured. This disease causes shocks through your face that leaves you debilitated (hence its name The Suicide Disease). Numerous ER and doctor visits with no help. Suggestions of surgery that would leave her face paralyzed. Days of her not being able to eat ANYTHING, days of drinking NOTHING, not being able to go outside because the wind could cause a shock, couldn’t rub her lip cause that set it off, couldn’t comb her hair because that set it off. She was taking a mixture of pain medicine that could kill an average person but it didn’t even put her to sleep. She had to keep a journal of her medicine out of fear of overdosing but it wouldn’t even scratch the surface. Y’all just don't understand! Then we found a doctor by the name of Robert Mericle in Nashville who performed a brain surgery that should have lasted 4 hours but it went 6-8 yet in ICU, she woke up with no shocks! The next morning she was up walking. She isn’t healed because there’s no cure but she’s restored. She’s singing again, she’s smiling again, she’s living again ... She’s my SHERO and I’m her Pink Power Ranger, fighting for her and because she has a band of believers backing her, she’s STILL FIGHTING! If a family member or friend is fighting with TN, do NOT discount their suffering because they are. There are no outward signs but there’s inward suffering. If you don't know TN, recently diagnosed with TN, have a family member or friend with TN ... get our book #StillFighting (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MJHF6NL) to learn more about it or the Be a Fighter journal (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1795056703/). #teal #tnsupporter #TeamLaquisha #trigeminalneuralgiaawareness #Suicidedisease #TNWarrior #TNSufferer #October7 #trigeminalneuralgiaawarenessday #trigeminalneuralgiawarrior https://www.instagram.com/p/CUu4waUl41D/?utm_medium=tumblr
