Fresh-faced and Bushy Tailed, Uni semester came along and I had my game face on.
Uni lectures, assessments, Drs, Solicitor meetings, and medication trials posted a rather heavy load to try and carry whilst dealing with "Whiplash".
I would spend as much time as I could sitting down in one session, hopping up and moving around to stretch, back into uni mode, and repeat.
Despite all the Extensive Rehabilitation I had undertaken, medication and Psychotherapy
I was starting to lose my ability to concentrate and remember anything that flashed across my computer or my face when it came to uni.
To counteract each symptom I was suffering we pretty much went through all the medication combinations you can come across to help deal with chronic pain, from
Low dose antidepressants, opioids, pain medications, and natural compounds there was
little to no efficacy but plenty of side effects.
A fond memory of an episode was whilst I picked up a couple of hours working casually
at a friend's store, I had accidentally run out of tramadol and couldn't get into see my GP so I went to work as usual and lunchtime hit. All of a sudden I had this wave of emotions rush over me, I felt frantic and impulsive. On that day I almost walked out of my store and took myself to the emergency ward because I didn't know what was happening to me. Crazy right?!
But back to uni, I started to lose my ability to recollect any information and the longer time went on the less I could sit and bear the pain.
In those couple of months of Uni, I had only missed one Assessment, I was one point away from passing my subject and the only reason I missed the assessment was due to a medical appointment I could not reschedule.
After extensively communicating with the Uni in regards to taking the test again they denied my chance to resit the assessment so I had to take the whole unit again and whilst I started the unit again from scratch my pain and stress levels just kept soaring, and with a heavy heart, I had to defer my degree indefinitely.
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