“I am a rare species, not a stereotype.” ― Ivan E. Coyote

It’s 11 : 28  AM on day 2306 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, have breakfast, read Ecclesiastes 3:1-8,    and work on my  25 Smiles Campaign    – yesterday my family donated $300 which brings the total  raised to $9 965.04 only  $2 534.96 more to raise to reach my second goal of raising $12 500 for Smile Train before Jan 10 2017 (SO SO SO GRATEFUL to everyone who has supported this campaign so far ).

Yesterday my family found my Grade 2 report and I discovered that I, in fact, have Cerebral Palsy Quadriplegia with spasticity in all four limbs I had always thought I had Cerebral Palsy Paraplegia it’s not a big deal I know they’re just words it’s just I always had an image of what quadriplegics were and I don’t match that image (maybe my parent did me a huge favour by not putting too much emphasis on my labels if I had known the extent of my physical limitations I probably wouldn’t have tried half the things I’ve tried).