06/05/2026
My body decided yesterday it wanted nothing more to do with normal body activities once I had a migraine hit.
For all the new comers I started photography roughly 10 years ago when my dad bought me my first camera when my daughter was born, 3 months later a chiropractor cracked my neck and caused bilateral vertebral artery dissection, which is a fancy way to say he broke my main arteries to my brain stem and I just drowned myself into photography everything to keep my mind off of everything I was going through. I almost died, got real depressed, got forever symptoms and migraines from it and was told over and over how lucky I am. I was sent right away to a neurologist who ended up doing surgery and placed 5 stents and clipped a pseudo-aneurysm with a week stay in ICU. To this day I am so lucky and thankful but I also have days of struggle from it all. Like last night.
I was driving home from Winston Salem to pick up a car my hubby just bought and a migraine came. Instantly had to pull over and sleep through the oura. Once it passed and I took my meds I told my hubby I am fine to keep driving, as he was in the car behind me. He didn’t like it but I told him I’m fine. Well I ALMOST made it home, took the exit to my town and my fingers went dead numb. Like no feeling, and it starting moving up my arm. Then my nose and my eye and then my face and then down to my leg. On on just my right side. I was panicking, Gavin call 911 and all the people came. By the time they got there I was okay. But they were insistent on me going in due to believing I had a TIA (mini stroke) so I did. The admitted me overnight. Did SOOOOOO many tests and my brain looks just fine. And everything else is pretty good. So it was either a TIA or just a complication from my migraine that I never had before and never want to again. I got out later this afternoon with 2 hours of sleep and with it all still managed to shoot a session this evening! I try to never let it hold me down.
It just shows you that WE ALL are going through stuff. We all deserve some grace and we all deserve patience. Some battles are silent, some put a happy face on. I just want it to be a reminder that life is short and things can happen in a blink of an eye, and that why I do what I do. Capture the beauty in life and the love and connection between loved ones, because someday that’s all we will have. ❤️
Photo taken and edited by Ash & Oat Fine Art Photography❤️
