How I got here: I got pregnant on Father's Day of 2016, and had a really awful, very high risk pregnancy that lasted until February 22nd, at which time they induced me early because it took them all that time to finally listen to just how quickly I was dying. At that point, I had gained 55lbs, my belly had swelled enormous 10" above my already pudgy size, I'd been coughing and throwing up liquid out of my lungs for months, and had been suffering from swelling everywhere below the belly so severely I was confined to a wheelchair. No matter how many times I complained about these things, the doctor who was taking massive amounts of insurance money from the state of Oregon to see me every single...
