RECOVERY IS LIKE A BURNING ROSE….

Vedia Barnett
2 min readApr 23, 2020

I have to be totally honest with you…..these last few months have been so strange for me. I feel like a burning rose. I wake up with joy and anticipation of what the day has in store for me. And then other days, I have no clue what I am doing or where I am doing. Some days my body fully cooperates with me and other days, it doesn’t . It is unsettling to say the least. I will feel like my self and out of nowhere my brain will show me that I am not.

For me, I realized that I have no control of what is happening and like an alien, every experience is seen with a new set of…

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Vedia Barnett

I'm a Disabled Veteran as well as an veteran advocate & community activist