People often think healing means the pain disappears.
Jessica used to think that too.
She imagined recovery as some finish line where one day everything would suddenly stop hurting — physically, emotionally, mentally.
But life taught her something different.
Sometimes healing means learning how to carry pain without letting it completely destroy your spirit.
And honestly?
That lesson took years.
The pressure ulcers became one of the hardest battles after the accident.
Not dramatic in the way people imagine trauma.
Not sudden like the crash.
Slower.
Crueler in certain ways.
The wounds developed from prolonged pressure after years in the wheelchair. Sitting too long, lack of circulation, damaged nerves, reduced mobility — all of it combined into injuries that became dangerously s
