🎉🎊👌🥳Aimee you are such an inspiration to me ,I watched my mum living with a Chronic illness ,some days I'm like can't do this . Watching your videos really motivate me may you be blessed abundantly , hugs ...
This was like a special gift❤️. Such a great start to my Monday! Thank you both so much for answering my questions! It really helped me. Not only for the answers, but also just knowing that you both get it and understand. Really means a lot to me❤️
This is literally me and my husband’s story. I got really sick with a stomach flu on our honeymoon and got progressively sick after that. Then we searched for a solution for my health problems for years and my mental health went down the drain until I finally accepted that this is who I am right now. The one thing my husband always tells me is that first and foremost what I can do for him is focus on my happiness not my productivity (which is still hard for me to accept). You guys are so great! Also I know it sounds weird but I started playing video games with my husband when we started dating and it has been something I can do when I’m sick and we both really enjoy it for date nights
This has me ugly crying right now. I loved watching the two of you together. My husband is like Josh; he's supportive and accepts me as i am. It kills me that i can't be the wife/mom/housekeeper that he deserves, because it makes me feel like he's not getting the woman i promised to be when we got married, and that i'm not the woman he fell in love with. I also hate that i'm not contributing to our finances anymore because i had to take a temporary break from teaching. (Still holding out a glimmer of hope that i can one day return and be productive again...) I deal with this guilt and frustration by overstretching and pushing myself to do the absolute most i am physically capable of doing, in spite of how much i'll pay for it the next day(s) (thankfully while he's at work so he doesn't have to see it very much, because i hate for him to see me suffering. He doesn't need a constant reminder that i'm sick.) Anyway, thank you for this. It looks like you have a true "king" like i do; best wishes to you both. 🖤
This is question for Josh. How does he mentally recharge himself or how should I be prepared. I am in the exact same boat. It was all fun during dating and then it just started to go downhill. Because pressure from work and then coming home doing house work can be difficult sometime. Thanks 😊
And it was interesting hearing about how you met, and had to adjust to the changes chronic illness brought after marriage. I met my husband while sick with ME/CFS. Then started feeling a lot better, I was about 85% better when we got married. 2.5 years later and I am worse again, this time with POTS. So it's been a lot of up and down for us!
@@Aimee_Esther in hindsight my flu like body aches started 4 to 5 years prior- I was told allergies. 🙄 Then my fatigue, rashes and aches started 3 years prior-told repeated mono/epstein Barr with a possible autoimmune disease in my future bc of Ana sed rate etc. Several triggers- a massive car crash- 4 months before we met made them increase but not to slow me too much. I assumed car pain. Super complicated delivery, icu time after birth then BAD shingles 3 years after twins and I was full blown Fibro/cfs along with lots of mast cell symptoms. Most I have under control. When i met hubs i was 115lbs, lived in the gym- super fit n now 140, a beast of a sloth lol and he still loves, supports and helps. It's a dance of balance for the quality of life you decide you want. I've cleaned up my inflammation, my autoimmune panel is now completely normal with years of research n supplement taking but now the docs officially think I'm bizarre ( holistic doc said I prevented lupus from coming) and I'm over diagnosis hunting. Even with years of horrible bloodwork nobody helped but my family doc. He is still is my best advocate. At 45, homeschooling 9 year olds is hard so a helpful doc n great hubs are wonderful. You can live like You say. You just make it your job to master how to cope with reasonable expectations and knowledge of consequences. :). I love your channel.
Thanks for sharing. Your husband is a legend for sticking by you when your chips are down. I would say whatever food poisoning you got messed your microbiome up, his recovered but yours didn't. I was also healthy my whole life until a round of antibiotics for a flu kicked off the chronic illness. To throw a wrench in the works, the best thing that has 'cured' me temporarily after years of trying every herb/antibiotics/probiotic/prebiotic etc etc has been FMT. I'm sure by now you've heard of it. The results didn't stick but it was a light switch from deathly ill to completely normal for 24 hours, then symptoms came back. Maybe something to consider.
Aimee you definitely got yourself a top guy as your husband he seems very supportive 🥰💕🥰
I think so too! :)
🎉🎊👌🥳Aimee you are such an inspiration to me ,I watched my mum living with a Chronic illness ,some days I'm like can't do this .
Watching your videos really motivate me may you be blessed abundantly , hugs ...
This was like a special gift❤️. Such a great start to my Monday! Thank you both so much for answering my questions! It really helped me. Not only for the answers, but also just knowing that you both get it and understand. Really means a lot to me❤️
He’s great, Aimee! Y’all are so in sync with one another!!!
This is literally me and my husband’s story. I got really sick with a stomach flu on our honeymoon and got progressively sick after that. Then we searched for a solution for my health problems for years and my mental health went down the drain until I finally accepted that this is who I am right now. The one thing my husband always tells me is that first and foremost what I can do for him is focus on my happiness not my productivity (which is still hard for me to accept). You guys are so great! Also I know it sounds weird but I started playing video games with my husband when we started dating and it has been something I can do when I’m sick and we both really enjoy it for date nights
This has me ugly crying right now. I loved watching the two of you together. My husband is like Josh; he's supportive and accepts me as i am. It kills me that i can't be the wife/mom/housekeeper that he deserves, because it makes me feel like he's not getting the woman i promised to be when we got married, and that i'm not the woman he fell in love with. I also hate that i'm not contributing to our finances anymore because i had to take a temporary break from teaching. (Still holding out a glimmer of hope that i can one day return and be productive again...) I deal with this guilt and frustration by overstretching and pushing myself to do the absolute most i am physically capable of doing, in spite of how much i'll pay for it the next day(s) (thankfully while he's at work so he doesn't have to see it very much, because i hate for him to see me suffering. He doesn't need a constant reminder that i'm sick.) Anyway, thank you for this. It looks like you have a true "king" like i do; best wishes to you both. 🖤
So happy you have someone to support and love you, and thank you for sharing this! :)
This is question for Josh. How does he mentally recharge himself or how should I be prepared. I am in the exact same boat. It was all fun during dating and then it just started to go downhill. Because pressure from work and then coming home doing house work can be difficult sometime.
Thanks 😊
And it was interesting hearing about how you met, and had to adjust to the changes chronic illness brought after marriage. I met my husband while sick with ME/CFS. Then started feeling a lot better, I was about 85% better when we got married. 2.5 years later and I am worse again, this time with POTS. So it's been a lot of up and down for us!
Keep fighting my friend!
@@Aimee_Esther thanks, I will! 💪❤️
Love this!!
Great video. We met prior too.
Thank you! How long after you were together did your symptoms start?
@@Aimee_Esther in hindsight my flu like body aches started 4 to 5 years prior- I was told allergies. 🙄 Then my fatigue, rashes and aches started 3 years prior-told repeated mono/epstein Barr with a possible autoimmune disease in my future bc of Ana sed rate etc. Several triggers- a massive car crash- 4 months before we met made them increase but not to slow me too much. I assumed car pain. Super complicated delivery, icu time after birth then BAD shingles 3 years after twins and I was full blown Fibro/cfs along with lots of mast cell symptoms. Most I have under control. When i met hubs i was 115lbs, lived in the gym- super fit n now 140, a beast of a sloth lol and he still loves, supports and helps. It's a dance of balance for the quality of life you decide you want. I've cleaned up my inflammation, my autoimmune panel is now completely normal with years of research n supplement taking but now the docs officially think I'm bizarre ( holistic doc said I prevented lupus from coming) and I'm over diagnosis hunting. Even with years of horrible bloodwork nobody helped but my family doc. He is still is my best advocate. At 45, homeschooling 9 year olds is hard so a helpful doc n great hubs are wonderful. You can live like You say. You just make it your job to master how to cope with reasonable expectations and knowledge of consequences. :). I love your channel.
Great video, 😊
Thanks! 😊
Thanks for sharing. Your husband is a legend for sticking by you when your chips are down. I would say whatever food poisoning you got messed your microbiome up, his recovered but yours didn't. I was also healthy my whole life until a round of antibiotics for a flu kicked off the chronic illness.
To throw a wrench in the works, the best thing that has 'cured' me temporarily after years of trying every herb/antibiotics/probiotic/prebiotic etc etc has been FMT. I'm sure by now you've heard of it. The results didn't stick but it was a light switch from deathly ill to completely normal for 24 hours, then symptoms came back. Maybe something to consider.