In July, Garvin was diagnosed with a life-threatening case of sepsis, a severe condition caused by the body's reaction to an infection. Sepsis causes inflammation throughout the body. As it progresses, crucial organs may start shutting down one by one. This is what happened to Garvin, who developed sepsis as a response to an abdominal infection.
When she went to the hospital, she was taken into emergency surgery, which resulted in a right hemicolectomy (the removal of one side of the colon), and two days later, an ileostomy (surgery to create an opening in the belly wall to remove waste from the body).
Needless to say, she was shocked by the experience. Garvin was only 39, and until now, she had always been healthy. She was both a wellness coach and a professional dancer, so she was very conscious of what she ate and how much she exercised. In fact, in the months before she got sick, she felt like her relationship with her body was better than ever, she tells Health.
“I was starting to feel stronger than I ever had at any point in my life,” Garvin says. “I was really starting to step into a role of showing other women that this is an amazing time of your life. You know who you are on a different level, and you understand yourself in new ways.”
Then reality hit. She woke up in a hospital bed with an ostomy bag, something she had never even heard of before. It was hanging off of her stomach to collect waste from the new opening doctors had made in her abdomen. She couldn’t believe this was happening to her.
But instead of being upset at her body and dwelling on everything that went wrong, she decided to look at it from a different perspective.
“My body and me, we’re on the same team. We’re in this together,” she says. Garvin believes every body wants to “do right” by the person that inhabits it, but many of us have a hard time seeing that because we're constantly told us otherwise. We’re made to think our bodies are working against us, but that isn't the case.
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