Thank you for sharing this story. You are very courageous. I have chronic Lyme disease, and I have also used schooling as a way to get stable housing and income many times. I am currently in school to become a mental health therapist and have figured out a way to do nearly all of it from home. I think it's one of the few careers I will be passionate about AND able to do from home at my own pace.
You are quite simply amazing for your strength and resilience. I cannot begin to comprehend the emotions you must have faced with your home living situation. I’m in awe to be honest how you’ve coped despite such adversity without little support it seems. I’m so sorry you have gone through this but my hasn’t it given you survival skills! This has given me some inspiration to carry on despite suffering deeply at the moment bedbound etc. Thanks for sharing part of your story x
It seems like the housing situation was a traumatic experience. Sorry you had to go through that. I’m glad you found your way to college. I’m not surprised you were successful there not only with your studies but also with making friends :) Thanks for sharing your story.
Hey Georgina, I just discovered your channel. This was a nice story, I'm glad you had that experience that was so positive for you. A wonderful silver lining from an undesirable situation. Thanks for sharing ❤
That takes a lot of courage to talk about, but you never know when you’ll find people you click with, a lot of times it happens randomly when you’re not expecting it :) I can see we get along too, I’ve ‘hearted’ more comments than not from you 😊
Thank you for sharing your story! I bet that this mouldy room affected your conditions in a bad way, aside from being super claustrophobic. I'm glad that there is a silver lining in that situation and you took a leap to go to uni. I'm so happy that you had few good years, were you got to meet friends and get that validation from your grades. Those hours lying down can be very valuable, and I'm at a point where I'm trying to do something with my life from my bed, so thank you for showing me it can be done. I can't really make concrete plans because of my conditions, but I am trying bit by bit to do something I can be proud of. Sending you lots of love and best wishes for the future.
I’m glad it was such a positive experience for you. I actually had such a different experience! I was chronically ill before I went to uni but I was still able to function very well really. But I caught Freshers Flu in freshers week and then developed full blown ME. Then chronic sleep deprivation from the girls who lived next to me keeping me awake, alongside pressure to party and keep up with studies just pushed me to severe ME in the end and I had to drop out. I had no support at uni off anyone and brain fog meant I couldn’t get any work done. I regret going to uni. If I hadn’t gone I may have never developed ME or it may have been mild. But I mean I didn’t know that at the time. It’s wild how experiences differ so much.
Thanks for sharing, I personally don’t think M.E is based on the virus itself that triggers it & believe if it wasn’t that virus, the next one would have triggered it. So I hope maybe that will be a consolation to you 💙 I definitely struggled with being kept up by noisy people & brain fog too, but it was nothing compared to what I faced before & I didn’t really have a choice about going. I’ve always managed to do a lot of work in a short space of time, so that worked in my favour as even though I’d have brain fog most hours, I got a lot done as soon as I had a slightly better 20 minutes, usually every other day 😊
Thanks for sharing, it was good to hear about your experiences, compared to having gone to uni ‘before’ later getting a chronic illness. I would say, don’t belittle your achievement at getting a 1st - most students get through uni ‘around’ having a good time, so you in no way took an easy route by thinking you ‘just did less work’ - far from it, doing any work at all when you just need to sleep is incredibly difficult. I’m sorry to hear your current chapter is difficult, and if you haven’t talked about that yet, perhaps if it’s something that can be improved, then your viewers have their own experiences to help you.
Thank you for sharing all this, you are so strong! So happy to have been able to spend my degree with such a wonderful person like you! Take care of yourself xx
Thanks for sharing your story and showing that it's still possible to graduate when you're chronically ill! Unfortunately I don't know if I'll be able to graduate, brain fog and fatigue are making it harder and harder to continue and I think I'm now in my 16th semester or something along those lines and nowhere near done and constantly have to pause. Thankfully my family is really supportive or I wouldn't have gotten this far.
Hi Sophie, I completely get that, I nearly quit so many times because of severe fatigue & brain fog too (was awful seeing my friends studying when I was tucked up in bed in symptom hell knowing I couldn’t do the same), but whether you finish or not, this phase of life will pass one way or another & you’ll get through it 🫶🏽
@@GeorginasJourney I hope so. I mostly don't even want to finish for the accomplishment but because I love learning about the subject. Of course I also already spent years doing it so it kind of feels like a waste to just give up and I know I would miss it. Still, my health always comes first.
@@GeorginasJourney Of course I had to first learn that but it's not a good feeling laying in bed all the time and being unable to do anything and just feeling completely awful. This way I at least have the energy to do some of the things I enjoy and don't run the risk of the fatigue worsening over time. That's one of my worst fears, not having any quality of life remaining. Thankfully, I'm pretty stable right now and I hope it stays this way.
That's awful that you were put in that tiny room when you were so ill. 😞 Well done on doing so well on your course. 🙂 Illnesses can really limit us but you should he proud that's for sure. I got ill at my first uni and was told I was going to get better so I went back to uni! I did pass the course by some miracle but I didn't make any friends in the 5 years I was at MMU as I was too ill!
Huge, huge well done! 🥳🥳 im so glad all your hard work paid off ☺️ With making friends, we bonded a lot from them caring for me, so I don’t think it’s accurate to say that it always takes a certain level of health & wellness to make friends, but I’m sorry you weren’t able to nonetheless 🫂🩷
@@GeorginasJourneyThat's true. I guess i was unlucky that the people i lived with werent the nicest. The odd one was alright but they kind of ignored me when it turned out i was too sick to go clubbing lol i met a friend at my first uni and i was only there 7 weeks and she's lovely. 🙂
I have tried but I don’t think it’s something that can be taught, I ended up cutting a lot of that clip but originally I explained that I had to use my intuition to do it & the work/methods I used changed everyday depending on the workload. I don’t think someone can get a degree just by following tips about working smart, I think they have to know what counts as working smart for their own situation, & do that 🥲 (learned this the hard way after trying to give tips before & people saying it wouldn’t work for them or what to do if method 1 doesn’t work, for example, they didn’t know what to try next, whereas I used hundreds of different methods & just followed my intuition)
It's so cool to see what you've been able to do! I'm in College and I didn't think I'd be able to leave my Mom's or do the practicum but I've gotten through most of them now! It's been tiring and exciting all the same!
Hi Georgina, just wanted to say thankyou for sharing your story. As someone who also has EDS and PoTS and can relate (to some degree) to your housing situation, it really means a lot to see. I was never able to go to uni, and feel really stuck in my situation rn, but I'm genuinely so happy to see you succeed. Especially through all the pain and fatigue and brain fog, they're absolute killers
Thank you so much, and I’m so sorry your situation isn’t better ❤️🩹 keep pushing through, I’m right there with you ❤️🩹 thank you so much for saying that, I struggled immensely with symptoms & brain fog so your comment has made me feel really seen & heard, thank you so much ☺️ xx
It’s always amazing and crazy how God takes difficult situations and turns them into blessings. He often puts caring loving people into our lives even if the support is virtual or far off. I often feel very lonely even though I have a loving family. I find so much comfort in the online chronic illness communities, and my church family says they are constantly praying for me and even sending cards (even though I’ve been sick for years). It’s so hard to make friends even for healthy people today, so being bedridden makes it even harder. Obviously you are highly intelligent both academically and common sense/practically.❤ I often think about you when I’m having a difficult time mentally with my depression and think about your resilience and how you are always pushing through even when it feels overwhelming and endless, it gives me hope to keep going and that it’s worth it to live each day even if it’s still difficult it’s worth it because life is a gift even the difficult days.❤
I’m so glad you have your faith and your church family, what a huge blessing! & we also have to recognise the blessings we get for ourselves- YOU put in the work into your faith & at least some of those blessings are actually down to you since He blessed us with free will, & same for me going out & getting my own blessings at uni 😊 Ah thank you- I’m not sure anyone has ever said I have common sense or am good at practical things, so that’s really nice to hear that (even though I worry it’s not true). I’m so, so glad you’ve found the strength to keep going, the only way out is through 💙 ‘Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.’ 💙
@@GeorginasJourney Yes I’m definitely blessed. I do have to say all the glory goes to God. Of course God gives us free will to make our own life choices like going to university or not, but God predestines His children. - 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as He chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love 5 He predestined us for adoption to Himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will. - Ephesians 1:3-5. If I had the choice to follow God or not I wouldn’t because my heart is wicked and sinful. -The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?- Jeremiah 17:9 Naturally all people are inclined toward evil. -8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us. - 1 John 1:8-10. So without God changing my heart and giving me faith and a desire to read His Word and go to church when I can, I would never do so. Only because God in His abundant mercy and grace did He save me even though I deserve hell. Without complete trust in Jesus and Him alone there is no eternal life, only hell. I just thought I’d share, God tells us we need to spread the Gospel to others so I’m writing this out of love.❤️ I highly recommend R.C Sproul and Ligonier Ministries if you are interested in Bible teaching sermons and studies.☺️ You are definitely gifted with high intelligence, it shines through in all of your videos and stories you share.💜 (All of the Bible verses I used are in English standard version). Xx🩷
Thanks for sharing! I miss university myself very much. It was a good 4 years and I was able to attend graduation however nobody from my family attended which kind of upset me. I'd still go back and do it all over again. Unfortunately I can't afford to go for a second degree!
Well done 👍 ❤️you are an inspiration. I don’t have EDS, i have mito with SVT/CVS/PoTS, lupus and chronic Lyme disease. I went to university for similar reasons. I couldn’t get a part-time course or disability allowance so I had to do full-time. I didn’t get a first as I’m not that academic and I struggled immensely, but I did pass my course and found somewhere to live after university. It’s great to have a foundation to build on. If you are really academic you could always find a way to go back to university. I’m not academic so I’ve found flexible work I can do. I’ve also worked to get proper treatment for mito that I didn’t have at university. That’s made a huge difference. Whatever helps. Sending love. Xxx ❤
Thank you, I actually did a full time course too, but as you say, am academic so managed to do the workload in 1/4 of the time I was supposed to. I’m so glad you were able to find somewhere to live after uni, for me, there was no foundation built so I became homeless. I’m glad you’re doing well with work & your new treatment 😊 sadly as others have said, there isn’t a way for me to go back to uni, I simply cannot afford it & am not well enough. I also would lose the housing I have now, even though it’s not good housing, I can’t become homeless again x
@@GeorginasJourney yes, you are very talented there, which is a gift. Ok, sorry. I meant I didn’t get help from the university which wasn’t helpful but I am not academic. I live in social housing due to my health and financial situation. I know our circumstances are different there but I understand some of the struggles. I hope you do what you want to do this year. Your talent and critical thinking skills go into your videos to help others. ❤️ xxx
I remember you told me once that you'd power through exams even if you passed out during them and I was thinking that I really need to get my ass in gear to get to your level of dedication. That uni room you showed us on here seemed like an ideal setup for you...I wish you could find temporary uni gig or something that came along with free housing there. You'll thrive once you get the appropriate room setup.
Hiya, that’s true, but I don’t recommend anyone to push them as far as I did & do. & I’m definitely not well enough to do uni again. Fainting just to get the work done is not thriving, it’s actually really bad for you!
@@GeorginasJourney I agree with you, but you were still able to keep your housing due to doing well in uni, which was a net win. Plus, getting such high marks will always be a feather in your cap that you can use to help you later on down the road. And the friendships you gained were definitely a net win. There are definitely drawbacks to pushing through, but I feel like from what you'd shared on here, there was an upside for you as well.
@@rawnoob2143 yes, but I sadly couldn’t do it again & the damage I caused my body was irreversible. To say I’d thrive doing it again is sadly not true. Nor is it true to say I thrived the first time. I did improve my housing situation, yes. But did I thrive? No, I suffered immensely, & am now suffering even more. I share my reality in Shorts occasionally, but not in my long form videos, so you may not have seen. My videos have also been filmed using heavy filters for quite some time which also mask my reality.
@@GeorginasJourney I didn't mean to make assumptions; I'm really sorry for making assumptions. I didn't realize that pushing through uni caused damage for you. I also wasn't aware of how things were going for you now. I remember you got out of that painfully loud room with the neighbors who made it unbearable, but I didn't know what happened next. Personally, I wasn't able to finish college for various health-related reasons, but my reasons seemed trivial in comparison to yours, so I always saw your path of finishing uni, writing a book, etc. as super motivational; I didn't pause to think how much of a toll all of it must have taken on your health.
Mine went pare shaped at college i had a fall broke my tailbone then horror started in 1997 pelvic pain then cfs then pots now more fybromyalgia now i no i have heds autism ADHD awaiting sleep apnea test.glad you had good time there
Sorry to hear that. I made the best of my situation & having to be there, but suffered irreversible damage to my body from pushing myself way too far too.
Sorry to hear that to do you mean pushing threw CFS it joint issue s or burnout there's always hope the body can repair with right treatment and time what I hope anyways.mybfather got over CFS in 1993 wheelchair bound he was after virus.butvsuncebmy mum's gone last year it's come on him a bit again at 74.seams it can go in long remmision though
Sorry to hear about your father, but glad he did have a good few years. There sadly will be no remission for me as I have several incurable illnesses & most are genetic. My mum went into a care home aged 50 but was very unwell her whole life before too
@@GeorginasJourney is this because of eds my mum had severe ms 59 for which I lost her last year though we managed to keep her at home just us and my father.until 72 it totally paralised her he isn't as bad as he was at 40 hew driving etc really hope you can find something nto help ndid your mum have heds to like mine my grandfather had it amazing got to 85 at home but had such simple life garden food he had detached retina from birth and slip disc and had little Parkinson' at 75.pain is my worse symptom
@@GeorginasJourney ime diagnosed CFS fybromyalgia heds IBS empegelic migraine pelvic pain heds asperger's ADHD OCD heds.seams be once we get one get another have you tryed upper cervical work going to try that hopefully shortly also had pots 2007 2009 24/7 but that's gone and all this apparently related to.mcas as I've just got a document with all symptoms mcas can cause especially in heds autism
You got a First without reading any course texts? But you have to accurately quote in assignments at least, if not exams. And open book assessments require you to have knowledge of the book.
1. Not in all subjects! 2. You can get many quotes from lectures & seminars! 3. As I explained, I often found other sources & I quoted those when necessary 😊
Just seen your last sentence- open book exams mean you can use the book if you want, but those exams aren’t always based on a book. They often (if not always) are based on the lectures & seminars first & foremost. Books can help, but they’re not required if you find your own sources. I honestly don’t know what else to say, my old flatmate Lydia might follow my channel, maybe she can chime in. She would know all this too.
Thank you for sharing this story. You are very courageous. I have chronic Lyme disease, and I have also used schooling as a way to get stable housing and income many times. I am currently in school to become a mental health therapist and have figured out a way to do nearly all of it from home. I think it's one of the few careers I will be passionate about AND able to do from home at my own pace.
Well done, you’re doing so well!! ☺️💪🏽 🫶🏽👏🏽 keep going 🫶🏽
You are quite simply amazing for your strength and resilience. I cannot begin to comprehend the emotions you must have faced with your home living situation. I’m in awe to be honest how you’ve coped despite such adversity without little support it seems. I’m so sorry you have gone through this but my hasn’t it given you survival skills! This has given me some inspiration to carry on despite suffering deeply at the moment bedbound etc. Thanks for sharing part of your story x
It seems like the housing situation was a traumatic experience. Sorry you had to go through that. I’m glad you found your way to college. I’m not surprised you were successful there not only with your studies but also with making friends :) Thanks for sharing your story.
Ah thank you so much ☺️ btw, your username is inspiring & you should be proud of yourself, as I think you’re a prime example of it 😊
Thank you for the sweet words 😊
Hey Georgina, I just discovered your channel. This was a nice story, I'm glad you had that experience that was so positive for you. A wonderful silver lining from an undesirable situation. Thanks for sharing ❤
Thank you so much ☺️
U give me hope, I actually have a problem with making friends
That takes a lot of courage to talk about, but you never know when you’ll find people you click with, a lot of times it happens randomly when you’re not expecting it :) I can see we get along too, I’ve ‘hearted’ more comments than not from you 😊
Thank you for sharing your story!
I bet that this mouldy room affected your conditions in a bad way, aside from being super claustrophobic. I'm glad that there is a silver lining in that situation and you took a leap to go to uni. I'm so happy that you had few good years, were you got to meet friends and get that validation from your grades. Those hours lying down can be very valuable, and I'm at a point where I'm trying to do something with my life from my bed, so thank you for showing me it can be done. I can't really make concrete plans because of my conditions, but I am trying bit by bit to do something I can be proud of.
Sending you lots of love and best wishes for the future.
I’m glad it was such a positive experience for you.
I actually had such a different experience! I was chronically ill before I went to uni but I was still able to function very well really.
But I caught Freshers Flu in freshers week and then developed full blown ME. Then chronic sleep deprivation from the girls who lived next to me keeping me awake, alongside pressure to party and keep up with studies just pushed me to severe ME in the end and I had to drop out. I had no support at uni off anyone and brain fog meant I couldn’t get any work done.
I regret going to uni. If I hadn’t gone I may have never developed ME or it may have been mild. But I mean I didn’t know that at the time.
It’s wild how experiences differ so much.
Thanks for sharing, I personally don’t think M.E is based on the virus itself that triggers it & believe if it wasn’t that virus, the next one would have triggered it. So I hope maybe that will be a consolation to you 💙 I definitely struggled with being kept up by noisy people & brain fog too, but it was nothing compared to what I faced before & I didn’t really have a choice about going. I’ve always managed to do a lot of work in a short space of time, so that worked in my favour as even though I’d have brain fog most hours, I got a lot done as soon as I had a slightly better 20 minutes, usually every other day 😊
im so sorry to hear your first family truly have let you done but im so glad to hear you were blessed with such a brilliant uni family!
Thanks for sharing, it was good to hear about your experiences, compared to having gone to uni ‘before’ later getting a chronic illness. I would say, don’t belittle your achievement at getting a 1st - most students get through uni ‘around’ having a good time, so you in no way took an easy route by thinking you ‘just did less work’ - far from it, doing any work at all when you just need to sleep is incredibly difficult. I’m sorry to hear your current chapter is difficult, and if you haven’t talked about that yet, perhaps if it’s something that can be improved, then your viewers have their own experiences to help you.
Thank you for sharing all this, you are so strong! So happy to have been able to spend my degree with such a wonderful person like you! Take care of yourself xx
Thanks for sharing your story and showing that it's still possible to graduate when you're chronically ill! Unfortunately I don't know if I'll be able to graduate, brain fog and fatigue are making it harder and harder to continue and I think I'm now in my 16th semester or something along those lines and nowhere near done and constantly have to pause. Thankfully my family is really supportive or I wouldn't have gotten this far.
Hi Sophie, I completely get that, I nearly quit so many times because of severe fatigue & brain fog too (was awful seeing my friends studying when I was tucked up in bed in symptom hell knowing I couldn’t do the same), but whether you finish or not, this phase of life will pass one way or another & you’ll get through it 🫶🏽
@@GeorginasJourney I hope so. I mostly don't even want to finish for the accomplishment but because I love learning about the subject. Of course I also already spent years doing it so it kind of feels like a waste to just give up and I know I would miss it. Still, my health always comes first.
That’s something to be proud of! & something I can’t say for myself, I rarely put my health first tbh
@@GeorginasJourney Of course I had to first learn that but it's not a good feeling laying in bed all the time and being unable to do anything and just feeling completely awful. This way I at least have the energy to do some of the things I enjoy and don't run the risk of the fatigue worsening over time. That's one of my worst fears, not having any quality of life remaining. Thankfully, I'm pretty stable right now and I hope it stays this way.
That's awful that you were put in that tiny room when you were so ill. 😞
Well done on doing so well on your course. 🙂 Illnesses can really limit us but you should he proud that's for sure.
I got ill at my first uni and was told I was going to get better so I went back to uni! I did pass the course by some miracle but I didn't make any friends in the 5 years I was at MMU as I was too ill!
Huge, huge well done! 🥳🥳 im so glad all your hard work paid off ☺️ With making friends, we bonded a lot from them caring for me, so I don’t think it’s accurate to say that it always takes a certain level of health & wellness to make friends, but I’m sorry you weren’t able to nonetheless 🫂🩷
@@GeorginasJourneyThat's true. I guess i was unlucky that the people i lived with werent the nicest. The odd one was alright but they kind of ignored me when it turned out i was too sick to go clubbing lol i met a friend at my first uni and i was only there 7 weeks and she's lovely. 🙂
Dear Georgina, you are an inspiration to us all! 🙏🌷
As are you & Teresa 😊 your unwavering kind nature despite your circumstances always shines through 😊 in both of you 😊
@@GeorginasJourney 🙏
You should absolutely make a video about how to work ‘smarter not harder’ at uni (if you havent already)
I have tried but I don’t think it’s something that can be taught, I ended up cutting a lot of that clip but originally I explained that I had to use my intuition to do it & the work/methods I used changed everyday depending on the workload. I don’t think someone can get a degree just by following tips about working smart, I think they have to know what counts as working smart for their own situation, & do that 🥲 (learned this the hard way after trying to give tips before & people saying it wouldn’t work for them or what to do if method 1 doesn’t work, for example, they didn’t know what to try next, whereas I used hundreds of different methods & just followed my intuition)
Very inspirational ❤😊
It's so cool to see what you've been able to do! I'm in College and I didn't think I'd be able to leave my Mom's or do the practicum but I've gotten through most of them now! It's been tiring and exciting all the same!
I'm sorry you went through this. You absolutely should be proud of you accomplishments, and I'm glad you had some really good friends at university.
Love you and wonderful to hear your story. All my best wishes to you. You have been strong in the face of adversity.
Just wanted to tell you that I think that you're amazing.
Congratulations on doing so well at uni and making friends! I hope that you find a good situation in the future as well!
Thank you so much!!
Hey Georgina! Hope you're doing ok nice to see your videos!
Thank you! You too!
Hi Georgina, just wanted to say thankyou for sharing your story. As someone who also has EDS and PoTS and can relate (to some degree) to your housing situation, it really means a lot to see. I was never able to go to uni, and feel really stuck in my situation rn, but I'm genuinely so happy to see you succeed. Especially through all the pain and fatigue and brain fog, they're absolute killers
Thank you so much, and I’m so sorry your situation isn’t better ❤️🩹 keep pushing through, I’m right there with you ❤️🩹 thank you so much for saying that, I struggled immensely with symptoms & brain fog so your comment has made me feel really seen & heard, thank you so much ☺️ xx
@@GeorginasJourney thankyou to you too
It’s always amazing and crazy how God takes difficult situations and turns them into blessings. He often puts caring loving people into our lives even if the support is virtual or far off. I often feel very lonely even though I have a loving family. I find so much comfort in the online chronic illness communities, and my church family says they are constantly praying for me and even sending cards (even though I’ve been sick for years). It’s so hard to make friends even for healthy people today, so being bedridden makes it even harder. Obviously you are highly intelligent both academically and common sense/practically.❤ I often think about you when I’m having a difficult time mentally with my depression and think about your resilience and how you are always pushing through even when it feels overwhelming and endless, it gives me hope to keep going and that it’s worth it to live each day even if it’s still difficult it’s worth it because life is a gift even the difficult days.❤
I’m so glad you have your faith and your church family, what a huge blessing! & we also have to recognise the blessings we get for ourselves- YOU put in the work into your faith & at least some of those blessings are actually down to you since He blessed us with free will, & same for me going out & getting my own blessings at uni 😊 Ah thank you- I’m not sure anyone has ever said I have common sense or am good at practical things, so that’s really nice to hear that (even though I worry it’s not true). I’m so, so glad you’ve found the strength to keep going, the only way out is through 💙 ‘Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.’ 💙
@@GeorginasJourney Yes I’m definitely blessed. I do have to say all the glory goes to God. Of course God gives us free will to make our own life choices like going to university or not, but God predestines His children.
- 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as He chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love 5 He predestined us for adoption to Himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will. - Ephesians 1:3-5.
If I had the choice to follow God or not I wouldn’t because my heart is wicked and sinful.
-The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?- Jeremiah 17:9
Naturally all people are inclined toward evil.
-8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us. - 1 John 1:8-10.
So without God changing my heart and giving me faith and a desire to read His Word and go to church when I can, I would never do so. Only because God in His abundant mercy and grace did He save me even though I deserve hell. Without complete trust in Jesus and Him alone there is no eternal life, only hell.
I just thought I’d share, God tells us we need to spread the Gospel to others so I’m writing this out of love.❤️
I highly recommend R.C Sproul and Ligonier Ministries if you are interested in Bible teaching sermons and studies.☺️
You are definitely gifted with high intelligence, it shines through in all of your videos and stories you share.💜
(All of the Bible verses I used are in English standard version).
Xx🩷
Thanks for sharing! I miss university myself very much. It was a good 4 years and I was able to attend graduation however nobody from my family attended which kind of upset me. I'd still go back and do it all over again. Unfortunately I can't afford to go for a second degree!
Thanks for sharing too 😊
I couldn't handle university but I made some good friends that I kept for many years there. A couple are still my friends 20+ years later.
Arguably, you came away with the most valuable thing you could have found during your time there 🫶🏽
@@GeorginasJourney I was very disappointed not to finish but you may be right!
Well done 👍 ❤️you are an inspiration. I don’t have EDS, i have mito with SVT/CVS/PoTS, lupus and chronic Lyme disease.
I went to university for similar reasons. I couldn’t get a part-time course or disability allowance so I had to do full-time. I didn’t get a first as I’m not that academic and I struggled immensely, but I did pass my course and found somewhere to live after university.
It’s great to have a foundation to build on.
If you are really academic you could always find a way to go back to university.
I’m not academic so I’ve found flexible work I can do.
I’ve also worked to get proper treatment for mito that I didn’t have at university.
That’s made a huge difference. Whatever helps. Sending love.
Xxx ❤
Thank you, I actually did a full time course too, but as you say, am academic so managed to do the workload in 1/4 of the time I was supposed to. I’m so glad you were able to find somewhere to live after uni, for me, there was no foundation built so I became homeless. I’m glad you’re doing well with work & your new treatment 😊 sadly as others have said, there isn’t a way for me to go back to uni, I simply cannot afford it & am not well enough. I also would lose the housing I have now, even though it’s not good housing, I can’t become homeless again x
@@GeorginasJourney yes, you are very talented there, which is a gift. Ok, sorry. I meant I didn’t get help from the university which wasn’t helpful but I am not academic. I live in social housing due to my health and financial situation.
I know our circumstances are different there but I understand some of the struggles.
I hope you do what you want to do this year.
Your talent and critical thinking skills go into your videos to help others. ❤️ xxx
Hi Georgina listening to you Stephen Hawkin comes to mind 👍🏻😀
Congrats on ur Degree lovely
Oh thank you!
I remember you told me once that you'd power through exams even if you passed out during them and I was thinking that I really need to get my ass in gear to get to your level of dedication. That uni room you showed us on here seemed like an ideal setup for you...I wish you could find temporary uni gig or something that came along with free housing there. You'll thrive once you get the appropriate room setup.
Hiya, that’s true, but I don’t recommend anyone to push them as far as I did & do. & I’m definitely not well enough to do uni again. Fainting just to get the work done is not thriving, it’s actually really bad for you!
@@GeorginasJourney I agree with you, but you were still able to keep your housing due to doing well in uni, which was a net win. Plus, getting such high marks will always be a feather in your cap that you can use to help you later on down the road. And the friendships you gained were definitely a net win. There are definitely drawbacks to pushing through, but I feel like from what you'd shared on here, there was an upside for you as well.
@@rawnoob2143 yes, but I sadly couldn’t do it again & the damage I caused my body was irreversible. To say I’d thrive doing it again is sadly not true. Nor is it true to say I thrived the first time. I did improve my housing situation, yes. But did I thrive? No, I suffered immensely, & am now suffering even more. I share my reality in Shorts occasionally, but not in my long form videos, so you may not have seen. My videos have also been filmed using heavy filters for quite some time which also mask my reality.
@@GeorginasJourney I didn't mean to make assumptions; I'm really sorry for making assumptions. I didn't realize that pushing through uni caused damage for you. I also wasn't aware of how things were going for you now. I remember you got out of that painfully loud room with the neighbors who made it unbearable, but I didn't know what happened next. Personally, I wasn't able to finish college for various health-related reasons, but my reasons seemed trivial in comparison to yours, so I always saw your path of finishing uni, writing a book, etc. as super motivational; I didn't pause to think how much of a toll all of it must have taken on your health.
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Georgia I love you lil homie 💋💋💋💋💋💋💕❤️🌹
Mine went pare shaped at college i had a fall broke my tailbone then horror started in 1997 pelvic pain then cfs then pots now more fybromyalgia now i no i have heds autism ADHD awaiting sleep apnea test.glad you had good time there
Sorry to hear that. I made the best of my situation & having to be there, but suffered irreversible damage to my body from pushing myself way too far too.
Sorry to hear that to do you mean pushing threw CFS it joint issue s or burnout there's always hope the body can repair with right treatment and time what I hope anyways.mybfather got over CFS in 1993 wheelchair bound he was after virus.butvsuncebmy mum's gone last year it's come on him a bit again at 74.seams it can go in long remmision though
Sorry to hear about your father, but glad he did have a good few years. There sadly will be no remission for me as I have several incurable illnesses & most are genetic. My mum went into a care home aged 50 but was very unwell her whole life before too
@@GeorginasJourney is this because of eds my mum had severe ms 59 for which I lost her last year though we managed to keep her at home just us and my father.until 72 it totally paralised her he isn't as bad as he was at 40 hew driving etc really hope you can find something nto help ndid your mum have heds to like mine my grandfather had it amazing got to 85 at home but had such simple life garden food he had detached retina from birth and slip disc and had little Parkinson' at 75.pain is my worse symptom
@@GeorginasJourney ime diagnosed CFS fybromyalgia heds IBS empegelic migraine pelvic pain heds asperger's ADHD OCD heds.seams be once we get one get another have you tryed upper cervical work going to try that hopefully shortly also had pots 2007 2009 24/7 but that's gone and all this apparently related to.mcas as I've just got a document with all symptoms mcas can cause especially in heds autism
You got a First without reading any course texts? But you have to accurately quote in assignments at least, if not exams. And open book assessments require you to have knowledge of the book.
1. Not in all subjects!
2. You can get many quotes from lectures & seminars!
3. As I explained, I often found other sources & I quoted those when necessary 😊
Just seen your last sentence- open book exams mean you can use the book if you want, but those exams aren’t always based on a book. They often (if not always) are based on the lectures & seminars first & foremost. Books can help, but they’re not required if you find your own sources. I honestly don’t know what else to say, my old flatmate Lydia might follow my channel, maybe she can chime in. She would know all this too.
I did my degree also without doing any of the reading. It is possible depending on the subject😊
@@EE-xo3qr huge well done 🥳
@@GeorginasJourney thanks and you! 🎓
What if you went back to Uni? 😃
Masters and PhDs cost a lot of money
I can’t afford it, am not well enough to & even if I could, I’d still lose my current housing & be homeless after again