LaquishaT23
She was fourteen when it arrived - silent, invisible, and merciless.
In the sweltering heat of a Jacksonville summer, she was just a girl walking in her worn-out Converse shoes to the playground. Laughing with friends. Dreaming about eighth grade. But within days, her body began to betray her. Fevers, weight loss, rashes, and weakness-signs of an unseen war beginning inside her.
Uninvited is the raw, intimate memoir of a young woman whose life was upended by an illness that came without warning and never left. More than a story of diagnosis, it's a portrait of survival-through pain and confusion, through hospitals and unanswered questions, through the quiet moments no one sees. From adolescence to adulthood, this journey traces not just the fight against a chronic illness, but the many battles life throws outside of it: identity, relationships, grief, endurance, and learning to live with something that was never supposed to be part of the plan.
Told with unflinching honesty and quiet strength, Uninvited is a testament to what it means to lose control-and slowly, defiantly, reclaim your life.