Aug 26, 2026 · 22 min · 9 segments
!https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/100544/367_When_Healing_Never_Comes.jpg Natasha Kennedy shares with Dr. Saundra how living with permanent physical loss transformed "Jesus is enough" from…
Natasha KennedyGuest
Saundra Dalton-SmithHostThank
much for having me here.
Yeah, so I've had a lifelong condition that wasn't diagnosed until about five years ago when things started to get serious enough that we were like, okay, we really need to figure this thing out.
But it involves a It's kind of a degenerative connective tissue disease where my body is solely breaking down.
So about five years ago was when my esophagus stopped working and I stopped being able to swallow food and had to transition into a life of a liquid diet.
There's other conditions that go with it, some neurological conditions and losing more motility in my body.
GI system, losing my bladder, losing, getting the wrong sensations when I, when you scratch your skin.
So it's been a myriad of things, but probably about five years ago is when this became something that brought my life to a complete halt.
And that was losing the ability to eat solid food and for a while, even liquid.
And it comes in waves, but it very often brings my life to a total stop, which is not great.
Thank
much for having me here.
Yeah, so I've had a lifelong condition that wasn't diagnosed until about five years ago when things started to get serious enough that we were like, okay, we really need to figure this thing out.
But it involves a It's kind of a degenerative connective tissue disease where my body is solely breaking down.
So about five years ago was when my esophagus stopped working and I stopped being able to swallow food and had to transition into a life of a liquid diet.
There's other conditions that go with it, some neurological conditions and losing more motility in my body.
GI system, losing my bladder, losing, getting the wrong sensations when I, when you scratch your skin.
So it's been a myriad of things, but probably about five years ago is when this became something that brought my life to a complete halt.
And that was losing the ability to eat solid food and for a while, even liquid.
And it comes in waves, but it very often brings my life to a total stop, which is not great.
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