I have had 54 surgeries in my 29 years of life. All but one of them have occurred after 2007, so they have been fairly recent.
I am actually getting ready to have surgery number 55, and unfortunately, I know there will be more to come after that. Surgery is just a common thing that is needed frequently with my disease.
My disease is degenerative and each year it seems more and more goes wrong. When I first started to have surgeries, I would get super nervous before them.
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