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Being Strong

I was blessed with being stubborn and strong willed. Sometimes it can be detrimental but in my particular situation I was lucky.

Even as a young child I wanted to be “normal” and struggled to keep up with the other kids at home and at school. As a teen when I was ill I remained the same. I always kept up with what everyone was doing and where everyone was going. Of course when I was hospitalized it all got thrown out the window, but after I was back home and recovered for the time being I got right back into it. I was lucky that my parents coddled me but not to the point that I was not allowed to try to keep up with my friends. In between surgeries keeping busy was like therapy. It allowed me to salvage some kind of childhood and have some fun in between all my medical problems.