NPR Health
In 2011, Jessica Slice took a strenuous summer hike on the Greek Island of Santorini. She didn't drink enough water and when she returned to her cruise ship, she felt dizzy and nauseated.
She thought it would pass but her symptoms got worse, making it hard for Slice to stand upright without fainting. And they didn't go away.
After years of tests, doctors' appointments, rehabilitation programs, and frustration, Slice was eventually diagnosed with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS, an autonomic nervous system disorder.
She eventually embrace a new identity: a person with a disability. Becoming disabled radically changed her life, in ways that she says are both difficult and empowering.
Then she became a mom.
Slice's new book, Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challeng