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I’ve been getting inbox messages asking me what my user name means:

Well for one I’m Kay

No Kay is not short for my REAL name.

Since I joined EP many years ago (idek how long ago) I was always tristemuñeca - Spanish for sad doll) that name derived from what my dad used to call me- his little sad doll or in Spanish “mi muñequita triste”

Since 2015 I’ve lost 5 pregnancies back to back (the most recent being an actual neonatal loss as my babies were born 2 days shy of 24 weeks and both were breathing and fought to survive- unfortunately that did not work out, but they’re at peace and not in pain) that occurred December of 2016.

I changed my name here because I felt I was labeling myself and sort of manifesting my own self destruction. Everything that could go wrong was going wrong, I felt like life was out of my hands and I had lost who I was as an individual. I forgot how to laugh and be happy through my pain.

I’m relearning how to do this I was so broken I really don’t understand how I’m still alive.

I’ve endured much loss, pain, suffering and it’s felt like my life was always spiraling out of control. From a very young age, adding to that that I practically raised myself.

My life may be fated - I’ve been told this many times in the weirdest of ways - but despite my life being fated it’s up to me how I react to those events.

It’s my path.

The person I am here is the person I am in real life SW is my escape but I’m also making real connections here. SW is a place I can have fun, make jokes - laugh with friends - talk about music, talk about life, family, kids, difficult mother - relationship issues etc... it’s also a place I can grieve freely, I’m more open with that here than I am in the real world - only because I’m surrounded by people who are uncomfortable with grief, they’ve never experienced anything remotely similar so they don’t know how to react and say some pretty stupid things (well intentioned but stupi nonetheless)

There’s no specific meaning or destination on “Kay’s Healing path” it’s just my path a winding road... I guess this also ties in to my post about grief it’s in my features.
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Kay...wow.

You have had it not only "tough" but tough BEYOND tough...I cannot pretend to know how devastating those back-to-back losses are...😣😢😭😭😭

Forgive me for asking, but have you found out anything about a biochemical (pH, hormones) or genetic tendency which might have made your womb a relatively hostile environment? Do the specialists have any ideas about an underlying situation which might be addressable? [Feel free to point me to your postings as you have probably already addressed this elsewhere.]

Something in particular which you said stuck out:

[quote]My life may be fated - I’ve been told this many times in the weirdest of ways - but despite my life being fated
[b]it’s up to me how I react to those events.[/b][/quote]

(emphasis added)

First, I want to affirm the wisdom and maturity of your realization that there is really very little which YOU control, and that the control of your reaction is really the most you can hope to achieve. By understanding this, you have saved yourself a huge amount of wasted effort...most ppl think that they can control everything, and we really have control over very little. Kudos to you. 😊

Second, I want to say something in a delicate fashion, but the "fated" thing is a typical response of simple people, even ppl of faith, who simply do not understand God. As a child of His, you have an inalienable stakehold in eternity. And if you look at His interaction with us through Abram and the Abrahamic covenant, and the Messiah, and the Spirit...God intends for even greater good things and bounty than what we can imagine. The suffering...well it is part of this life and part of the mechanism of having a choice, I think...but His intent is for us to have life abundantly. Please do continue not to give in to fatalism...

May the Lord bless & keep you & yours.
KaysHealingPath · 36-40, F
@SomeMichGuy thank you for your kind words. I greatly appreciate it.

As far as the reason for the back to back losses that is due to a condition called incompetent cervix. My case is not typical as my cervix starts to fail as early as 9weeks.
I also have thyroid issues and a condition called Acromegaly.
Doctors tell me that managing my conditions will allow me to have more children if I wish but it took so long to get to those diagnosis and after so many losses I don’t think my husband will ever want to try again.
@KaysHealingPath wow...yes it would be disheartening enough...without getting your hopes up and having them dashed again

still, knowing that this is not just "oh well we don't know"...it seems better to know that you have a set of issues, which makes sense in terms of how bad your outcomes were...

it is the perfect time to use this word coined by Shakespeare: bittersweet