Natural Family Blog Archive 🌹 The First 20 Years

This past month I obtained handicap designation for myself and my car around three chronic health issues. This step has been something I have put off for five years since being diagnosed with chronic hypoxia.

The most problematic issue has been my spine. I have scoliosis and it has gotten markedly worse over the past few years while working as a professional driver.

Here are some recent x-rays of my back:

I also suffer from a variety of emotional illnesses and always seem to be battling one thing or another around childhood trauma.

This interview, blog posts, and a few twitter tweets have lots of backstory to my many long term health challenges:

https://twitter.com/jennyhatch/status/1162364868403630085?s=21

https://twitter.com/jennyhatch/status/1027786501457772544?s=21

https://twitter.com/jennyhatch/status/1162189222813417473?s=21

https://twitter.com/jennyhatch/status/1162190077100879874?s=21

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It has proven most helpful to get some new equipment for my oxygen supplementation and handicap designation for our car.

I am an Uber/Lyft Driver and having the proper tools in place to do my job well has felt incredibly empowering.

I also have been renting a wheelchair for certain situations to enable me to do more outside of my home.

I used it for the first time last month conducting a ninety minute stake choir practice and the chair was perfect!

I am also working with a new young chiropractor and am excited to see what we can do to increase my mobility over the next few years.

She put me on a mold protocol to help cleanse the tissues of my body using herbs and other supplements. We lived in a home in Cedar City Utah for three years that had a serious black mold problem and she believes the mold may have contributed to some serious infections I have suffered with these past few years.

Now I am wondering if the mold contributed to the untimely death of my dog Samwise Gandalf.

Lifelong anaphylactic allergies, asthma, and eczema are always lurking in the shadows and I cannot go anywhere without an epi pen, anti-histamines, and my inhaler.

I also have had several recent breathing emergencies that proved scary and sobering as we have tried to wrestle with how much I can do both inside and outside of our home. I am also learning the limitations of my battery powered oxygen concentrator.

I have been back on 24 hr a day oxygen supplementation for months since a setback a few months ago.

That being said, I am planning to audition for a few theatrical companies this year and hope to spend some quality time making music and performing onstage even if I am on oxygen in a wheelchair.

In the spirit of using music to heal, I started a new playlist on my YT channel to share my songs. Memorizing these lyrics and new arrangements will be a fun fall project.

Thanks for stopping by!

I hope you have a great day!!!

Jenny Hatch

PS – I was given a new handicap license plate by the state of Colorado and spent a few extra dollars to choose my own letters and numbers.