# @embracingecho on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Dct79b1SNPp
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69872566-embracingecho-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/27999fe538.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-08-31T20:24:23.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Jaime Simpson (@embracingecho) — https://gondola.cc/embracingecho

## Caption

How I’ve been feeling while having to use my wheelchair lately 🥹🧑🏼‍🩰

If you’ve never watched dance moms, you’re less likely to understand this gem 💎 

I’ve had to get my wheelchair back out after two recent hospitalizations. For those that don’t know, I’ve had epilepsy my entire life and a complex medical history that worsened into adulthood but in 2019, I was in a major car accident. I’ve been in and out of a wheelchair since (“ambulatory wheelchair user”). When I can, I don’t use it. It’s hard to navigate a 400 pound wheelchair and have low vision! I’m also a very independent girly for someone who has a dependent body and not a fan of getting pushed. Recently, I went through intubation + medically induced coma after status epilepticus triggered by infection and then I had a complex cyst removed (pending biopsy) and endometriosis followed by status epilepticus in the Post Op area causing yet another medically induced coma + intubation plus a bonus grapefruit sized hematoma under the cyst incision. My body has been TIRED. I can’t take more than a few steps without blacking out and my brain is still catching up on a few things after being a tad swollen from a status and propofol. 

#abbyleemiller #dancemoms #wheelchairuser #wheelchairdance

## Stats

- **Views:** 24,556
- **Likes:** 536
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## Tags

wheelchairuser, abbyleemiller, wheelchairdance, dancemoms

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