Swimming Against The Current

The question I most often ask myself is if I would rather have no use of my hand or my foot.  Now that my left foot has been curled in for four days, I have realized how much easier it is to have no hand.       Although when my hand was curled in, I was uncomfortable and aggrivated.  I hated not being able to do my hair, cut my food, do my daughters hair, get her dressed, change her diaper.  It was all a struggle but after three and a half years I learned to adapt and learned to do all of these things with one hand and one curled in hand.  That was my normal and when I got my hand back, it was great but it was also weird.  I basically had to re learn how to do everything.  My fingers still ache and its still hard to do things but im getting back into the swing of having two hands and it feels great.      I felt very positive about the DBS, it changed my life.  I am so grateful for my doctors and so happy that I had the opportunity to have this surgery and make my life better for myse

Its been a while since I wrote here.  I have had a lot going on lately and miss Hailey is almost two so she requires a lot of attention!  She is just hilarious.  She has been talking more and more each day.  She sings all the time and dances.  Her favories song is pontoon by little big town and cries to listen to it in the car.  She absolutely loves dora and anything and everything that's dora related.  She also likes to get her way.  If she doesnt get her way, you can bet there will be a little tantrum going on.  She is at such a fun age and I love every minute of it.  Last Saturday, Ryan and I got married.  We had a small ceremony in his parents back yard mainly for insurance reasons and we will have our big wedding next June.  We wanted to have a nice wedding with all of our family and friends, a white dress, bridesmaids and groomsmen and all of that but we just couldnt get it all together for this year, it was just too much too soon.  I had to get on Ryans insurance before Nov