Living with chronic pain
I'll start this blog post off by being completely honest with you. Since being diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy at birth, I knew that life was not going to be easy. Then again, if we are being real, no one's life is easy. Not all of the time at least. However, when you have a disability, you have to literally think about everything before you do it. For instance, you always are left to wonder if a place of business has a ramp so that you can access it easily. That is really just the beginning of the difficulties. When you are a disabled person forced to go to a school where you are the only one in a wheelchair, the relentless battle with self-esteem begins. You begin to see the consequences of living differently within the school halls when you hear people who don't know any better chuckling at your disability. Not because the kids are 'mean', but rather because they are insecure and don;t know how to consider the feelings of others. The depression that would begin to