Amanda Doulos is a digital editor for Love What Matters based in New York City. She will graduate from Binghamton University with a Bachelor of English Literature and Spanish in Spring 2023. She loves staying involved as vice president of the mock trial team and secretary of Spanish Honor Society. In her free time, she loves reading, traveling, and spending time with friends.
“I sat the phone down and ugly cried in my car. I was only 27. I wasn’t supposed to be sick.”
“My love for animals had been inside my soul forever. It was the little push I needed.”
“The joint pain became unbearable. I couldn’t open doorknobs, do my makeup, or write my name without pain. My legs were so swollen I couldn’t wear shoes.”
“I decided to return to work, no faith in my abilities.”
“I finally began to work on myself. And that’s hard. Looking in the mirror and being honest about the ways you can grow is daunting.”
“I had no idea patients admitted for hysterectomies stay in the maternity ward. It was a sick comedy. Anyone who entered the room congratulated me and asked if it was a boy or girl.”
“My situation was a living nightmare. We wanted to give her the basic things every baby should have, like a soft toy. We simply couldn’t afford it.”
“I had my daughter at home, unmedicated, in a birth tub in my living room.”
“I tried to feed him, but he’d just cry and scream or show no interest at all. I felt like I was failing for the second time.”
“Like throwing rocks into a pond, we hoped this would create a ripple effect.”
