Pakistani fashion designer Feeha Jamshed posted multiple videos of herself dancing at a wedding yesterday. However, she posted the videos along with a caption that read,“This post is an emotional summary and very close to my heart. Many of you didn’t know what was happening with me.”
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The designer went to onto explain she suffered from a condition called Trigeminal Nueralgia, “Three years ago, I started to lose control over my body. I had Trigeminal Nueralgia and after a series of procedures, I had it under control, though that was the last of my worries”
She also added her struggle with the illness and how it affected her body-especially the lower half, “I was experiencing excruciating pain, that had no diagnosis. From one MRI to another and after juggling between the best doctors this country had to offer – I finally had an explanation.”
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Eventually she discovered that it was a genetic condition that ran in the family, “I was taking every medication that they had to offer. Out of all of them, steroids were the real killer. Which meant I had to be on anti depressants too. I decided to go cold turkey because I couldn’t let my work suffer. The only thing that kept me going was work. And that too became a downfall,” she said.
This led to Feeha having to spend eight months on a wheelchair, “Now my battle was not only at work but inside me. My mind. I couldn’t let that go out of my control. There were some very very dark days for me. In order to win the battle I had to surrender first; surrender to everything that didn’t make sense, to what the reality was, to my negative thoughts in order to rise from it.”
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She also added that this post was a celebratory moment for her, “From a wheel chair to a stick to dancing. As long as my good days are more than the bad ones, I’m winning each moment.” And ended with thanking herself as well, “Lastly the person I need to thank after God is MYSELF. I couldn’t have done it without ME.”
