Size: 24“ x 18“
Acrylic on canvas
Painted on Mother’s Day of 2020

On Mother’s Day of 2020, I was at work and had a patient that would forever change me.  She had been experiencing sudden onset vertigo, hearing loss and tinnitus for the past 6 days.  She was the first patient I had ever taken care of that went through something very similar to what I had back in July of 2018.  I sat with her and her family and explained to them the two year journey I had been on prior to me seeing her as a patient.  I was able to educate them on the things I had learned over the past 2 years of dealing with similar symptoms and felt like the pain and agony I had gone through was finally paying off.  I had a gift to give them.  It gave them hope to meet someone who was not only familiar with her situation, but was also thriving almost two years later.  When I got off work that night, I went home and painted this painting.  I felt like the pain of the previous two years began to leave the places inside me that it had been hiding.  For the first time, telling my story to a patient brought her healing… and that began to heal the pain that used to be trapped inside me.