This article includes mentions of eating disorders and mental health issues.
Unfortunately for Stacy London, that is exactly what she has faced for most of her life.
I was diagnosed after I felt small bumps behind my ear that felt like chicken skin.
It got severe around 11 years old.
I was covered in scales from the neck down."
As she explained toParade, “Everything is hard to move.
My weight goes up and down and things like that.
If you need help with an eating disorder, or know someone who does, help is available.
However, time seems to have healed some of the rift between them.
And it was hard to kind of reconcile that.”
Because we don’t really hate each other.
We love each other, as a matter of fact."
And not just any surgery, very expensive spinal surgery.
London underwent the procedure in December of that year, which was supposed to resolve her chronic pain.
The unexpectedness of its onset was particularly troubling: “It’s scary.
And no one really explained this to me.”
To make matters worse, her romantic relationship at the time fell apart, as did her finances.
In the end, however, London was able to begin the equally long process of rebuilding her life.
And hope is very sticky, indeed."
Not the act of dying but the moments after that.
… His eyes were wide open.
They were still alive to me."
I still feel that when I think about the void that he left."
