Elizabeth Alden

My most recent inspiration is based on my amazing husband and my 2 kids 17 & 19 who are always holding their own pain of hEDS. While I have just had my 1yr mastectomy follow up. It is also inspiring to remind myself that I can still do anything The new ink is all 4 of our birth flowers and the moon cycle underneath. The lotus (tad cliche) because it feels like walking in waist high mud all the time.

I am enough. I am stronger than my demons, the abuse, the hate, the genetics I didn’t ask for, my adopted dad dying at 41. My adopted mother abandoning me at 43. My body is a canvas and I would love something to cover my old with the new I am not the same anymore. It was such a dark year I tried to be unalive, my son and husband saved me. I want the reminder that it gets better and I am not giving in to these awful debilitating syndromes.

52 & 45 we would finally take a small honeymoon, I haven’t had a “family” trip since 2018(?), we want to rent space for everyone who stayed with us to say thank you. I would put the rest aside for continuing health care for all 3 of us with the same disability.