Maintaining Hope While Healing Eczema & TSW
Welcome to the first episode of my NEW SERIES! - #EverydayEczema is made up of personal anecdotes from my real life about what it's like to HAVE severe eczema, go through topical steroid withdrawal (TSW), and HEAL FROM IT. They are small moments of everyday life packed with big lessons, inspiration, and humor to help you get through your own healing journey and remind you that you are not alone.
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Hey it's Cassie, the naturalistic nurse. This is the first of 3 quick stories that I have to share with you that happened to me over the past few days and that I'll be posting over this week. So yesterday, one of my friends texted me, hey, how are you, by the way?
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How's your eczema? And ever since I started sharing my story really publicly, this is a common question that my friends ask me, which I totally don't mind. It's a really great way for them to let me know that they care. And I answered her. I said, oh, I went to Vegas last week. Thankfully, my skin behaved a lot better than I expected it to over the trip. And it's actually been pretty good since then.
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of course i know that i still have a lot of healing to go i mean i'm still churning every day but things are going pretty well and i'm a lot happier and a lot more comfortable than i have ever been so last night i was in bed and that question popped back up into my head hey how's your eczema and without forcing anything without trying I naturally started envisioning the day that somebody asked me, hey, how's your eczema?
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And I just answer, gone. And that's it. I of all people know just how hard it is sometimes to keep that hope and that faith that you will heal and that you are getting better every single day even though you can't see it. Last year there were so many times that a lot of people thought that yeah I was really hopeful even when I was in the dark depths of despair.
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I had to front being hopeful because that was the only way that I was going to get through today and tomorrow and the next day. But I knew that deep down inside, I wasn't sure if I really had that hope that I was expressing to the world so if you are trying to heal and you're just having one of those days one of those months that it is so hard to cling on to that last thread of hope that you are getting better and that it feels like this is never gonna end Keep clinging on and keep reminding yourself that you will heal and that there is hope because I mean, I'm living proof.
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If you have been following me since the beginning days of Nat Nurse, you can see with your own 2 eyes that I'm doing so much better than I was from one year ago today. A year ago today, I could barely get out of bed because I was in excruciating pain every second of every day that was relieved by nothing. And there were so many days that I didn't want to be here. I didn't want to be on this earth living this pain.
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but I've rented that hope until fast forward months in a year that that feeling of hope and faith that you are going to heal completely, one hundred percent, won't be forced anymore. It's gonna come naturally to you and you'll be thinking of the day that you're gonna answer somebody's question, hey how's your eczema, and you're gonna say it's gone.
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If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up and let me know in the comments below if you have a story of your own everyday eczema to share. And just remember that chances are we've all been there too. Finally, don't forget to visit the rest of my blog at thenaturalisticnurse.com for more blog posts and videos about how to embrace an eczema-friendly lifestyle and more. See you next time.
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