Little Accomplishments

It’s been a pretty crazy week for me, everybody. I would love to tell you about one accomplishment in particular.

From the beginning! Last Monday, as you know, I was sent home sick. Well, yesterday I went to see a doctor who told me a million other things I need to do. One of them was to come back in the morning (having eaten nothing all morning) and have my blood drawn for lab testing.

Stop right there. Rewind. Does anybody remember what happened the last time I got my blood drawn? (Brownie points if you do remember.) Well, I cried. A lot. And turned red. The simple job took ages. Why? It’s just a simple 2-minute job, right? Beep, wrong! Not if you’ve had recurring nightmares about needles. (Good story, find it here.) I am so afraid of needles! SO afraid! All morning I was freaking out. What if I start crying again and they act like I’m a lunatic??

“Keep moving forward.”

People… I didn’t even get a knot in my throat. It was brilliant. I just let her take my blood and then I was done. Yessss! High five for some progress! This is proof that I’m moving forward, guys. And sometimes I have to prove that to myself. Yeah, I can do stuff if I want to. If I try. It’s one small step for me, and one giant step for… eh, me. (I’m not sure where I was going with that one.)

Also- the doctor told me to drink a nutrition shake every day. I learned pretty quickly that those things are delicieux! Yayuh.

I just thought I’d let you know that I can conquer, and life is good. I’m hope to make a whole bunch more steps forward. I guess life is kinda like that- two steps forward, one step back. I just need to stop dwelling on my backward steps and lengthen my forward stride. Hoping you all have an accomplished day! As for me, I am going to write a major paper just in time to turn it in. How fun! Time to get to work.

-Kenny

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” — Walt Disney