Just because you can’t do something doesn’t mean you can’t be happy when someone else does it– that’s what I learned today 🙂

It’s 3 : 37 PM on day 612 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to  brush my teeth,   feed myself  All Bran Flakes  for breakfast, drink Green Tea  by myself, publish my Disability of the Day feature,  exercise my right hand –  I sliced a banana with a knife using my right hand and made a huge mess but I’m so proud of myself I don’t even care about the mess – feed myself an avocado sandwich for lunch, drink another cup of Green Tea and exercise my right hand some more  – http://www.stroke-rehab.com/hand-exercises.html has some fantastic hand exercise suggestions I particularly love Pinch clothespins if you have a condition that affects your fine motor skills this would be a great site for you to visit (Note: http://www.stroke-rehab.com/ isn’t paying me to endorse their website).

A couple of days ago I came across a video on Twitter titled 6-Year-Old Boy Walks to His U.S. Marine Father For The First Time – he has Cerebral Palsy so the fact that he is able to walk is a HUGE deal – but I put off watching it until today afraid that I would be jealous that he was able to walk and I wasn’t to my surprise through I was crying happy tears as I watched Michael – the boy – walk into his father’s arms. Take a look at the video below: