YOU KNOW, I'VE HAD A LOT OF THINGS HAPPEN TO ME IN MY LIFE SINCE DAY ONE, FIRST BEING DIAGNOSED WITH CEREBRAL PALSY AFTER MUNSON HOSPITAL COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT IN THE WORLD WAS WRONG WITH ME SO @ 9 MONTHS OF AGE, I GO TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HOSPITAL IN ANN ARBOR WHERE THEY COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS WRONG WITH ME, SO BASICALLY THEY JUST DETERMINED I WAS PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED WITH CEREBRAL PALSY. SO PRETTY MUCH, I'M AN ENIGMA HAVE BEEN FOR A LONG TIME AND ALL OF MY CHILDHOOD FRIENDS JUST MOVE AWAY AND DRIFT AWAY AND YET THESE DAYS, IT'S A BIT LONELY, YEAH, I HAVE A GIRLFRIEND NOW AND ALL, WHICH IS GREAT BUT I FIGURED, WHEN I HAD FRIENDS THAT'S ONE THING I WANTED WAS A GIRLFRIEND, A STEADY GIRLFRIEND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN, I HARDLY HAVE ANY FRIENDS ANYMORE AND IT'S NO PICNIC MAKING FRIENDS NOW AT TIMES, YES, I HAVE SOME BUT NOT MANY THESE DAYS. I DON'T THINK IT MATTERS WHAT SEASON IT IS EITHER! GRANTED, MY PHONE NUMBER IS ON HERE AND IT'S NOT HARD TO GET A HOLD OF ME WHETHER IT BE E-MAIL OR PHONE EITHER AND GRANTED THIS MAY NOT BE THE BEST PLACE TO CHAT BUT IT'S BETTER THAN NOTHING AT ALL. I'VE BEEN THRU HELL SINCE DAY ONE AND THERE ARE DAYS WHERE IT STILL CONTINUES, FROM BEING IN A CAR WRECK IN 1995 WHERE I BROKE MY LEG AND HAD TO LEARN HOW TO WALK ALL OVER AGAIN FOR THE 2ND TIME, I FOUGHT LIKE HELL TO GET THAT BACK AND THEN LOSING MY MOTHER IN 1999 TO A HEART ATTACK AFTER HAVING A RETINAL DETACHMENT AND HAVING SURGERY TO REATTACH IT WHEN I'M ALREADY BLIND IN MY LEFT EYE AND HAVE BEEN SINCE BIRTH HERE AND DEAF IN MY LEFT EAR. OH, THEN IN 2001 AND 2002, I BREAK MY RIGHT LEG AGAIN ONLY THIS TIME IT WAS IN MY BROTHER'S HOUSE AND HAD TO HAVE SURGERY TO FIX THE LEG AGAIN AND LEARN HOW TO WALK ALL OVER AGAIN AND BEFORE THAT HAVING TWO MORE RETINAL DETACHMENTS AND HAD TO HAVE SURGERY TO REATTACH THE RETINA AGAIN. I FOR ONE HAVE GONE THRU PURE HELL AND ONE NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO GO THRU BUT YET, HARDLY THAT MANY PEOPLE WERE THERE OTHER THAN FAMILY AND MAYBE A FEW FRIENDS AND YET IF THAT WAS HAPPENING TO SOMEONE ELSE, I WOULD OF BEEN THERE OR DAMN WELL TRIED TOO HERE. MY QUALITY OF LIFE IS NOT SUPER BUT IT'S BETTER THAN NOTHING BUT IT WOULD SURELY HELP IF I HAD FRIENDS THAT ACTUALLY UNDERSTOOD WHERE I'M COMING FROM AND PUT THEMSELVES IN MY PLACE. YEAH, I HELD MY HEAD HIGH WHEN I HAD TO LEARN HOW TO WALK ALL THREE TIMES BUT IT WOULD OF BEEN NICE TO SEE SOMEONE CARE FOR A CHANGE AND NOT MAKE ME FEEL IN ANYTHING THAT I DID LIKE I WAS NOTHING.
