For some of the guests that are on the show, what you're hearing is the first conversation we ever had, in this case Sara and I had a few friendly conversations, we got to know each other, and I got to hear some of her stories, and I knew she would be a good guest for the show. Her story starts a few years ago when she quit a job at the post office that she had for 26 years, after feeling very worn down, and she Felt like she couldn't keep up with their demand for six days a week. She then moved down to another job where she had gotten fired which was right around when she was diagnosed with Ménière's disease. She paints a perfect picture of what ménière's disease is, it doesn't sound pleasant, and you have to really feel for her when she's really going through it. She talked about as a child having severe ear infections and how they affected her at those times. Ménière's disease causes a lot of fluid in your ear, and she was seeing the effects of this disease before she even knew what it was. She discusses her mental health because I'm not being able to work, and everyone in her house every day leaves to go to work, and it makes her feel a little insignificant. Mental health is kind of like a ninja, it just sneaks up on you, and you just do not know where it's coming from, you don't know what angle it's going to take, it just hit you when it wants to, in Sarah's case it went after her after she was most vulnerable, and feeling very sad about not being able to work, well that doesn't make her any less of a person, mental health does not care. I really love Sara's honesty, because she talked about some of her worst days when her son, who we learn is also disabled, finds her in some really odd predicaments. She really goes in detail on explaining her sons disability, but also how people underestimated him based on his luck, and when they did find out about his disability, also underestimated his intelligence. She also took a certain test to find out if she was on the spectrum or not for autism.
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