Medication Success

Well, it has been about two and a half weeks since I have taken any pain meds more than some Tylenol. There have been many times that I have wanted to take it but I have stayed strong, so to speak. I have never been one to take a lot of medication so I have been working on getting myself off of  my medications. It is still hard and I need to take some stuff still. I am hoping that it will get to the point that I will not need to take any more medications. That is my goal.

I feel like I have been doing well building muscle back up. I am still not as strong as I was before my accident but I am working on it every day. The one thing that is taking forever is building my legs back up. I don't know if it is taking so long because of my spinal cord injury or if it is just taking time because that is how it works. I am hoping that my spinal cord injury isn't still effecting everything but I don't know a way that I can test it. I am thinking that once it is time for me to be back at the VA for my annual check up that they will be able to tell me one way or the other. I guess we will just have to wait a few months and figure that out!

Your problem isn't the problem. Your reaction is the problem. ~Anonymous

Hmmmm....

This blog thing is a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. I don't want to bore everyone with my daily activities but trying to find legitimate things to talk about is proving harder than expected. One thing that I really didn't want to make a big deal about was the the tenth was my one year anniversary of my motorcycle accident.
The only reason that I am writing about it now is because I do need to address it. To me, it was just another day. I honestly had forgotten that it was on the tenth until I was talking with my sister and it was brought up. Thats how little the day really does mean to me. I am not worried about something happening on that day or being jinxed by the tenth of July. Nothing like that really matters. I know that there were a few people that didn't realize it until my mom posted something about it on Facebook. I got a few text messages saying that the person was glad that I am doing well and good job but to me, it really isn't anything to celebrate.
I am still here and I am not going to let something small like the motorcycle accident stop me from living up to my full potential. I have worked so damn hard to get where I am and will continue to bust my ass, well, forever. I will never be satisfied with just settling for where I am. I am still being held back by my injuries and until that is no longer a factor I will continue to find different ways to try to heal myself and get back to where I was before. It is true, I know that some things will never be the same. Mainly my shoulder and the nerve damage that was caused. But I can still push myself to improve.
Everyone tells me that I will continue to make improvements and my nerves will very minutely heal for up to two years after my accident. What do I think about that? Crap. I will not stop just because time has passed. I will not give up on becoming what I want to be just because science has proven this or that. The doctors told me that there was a good chance that I would never walk again. So much for that science right?
All in all a year has come and gone and I don't care. I am not going to let something as silly as that stop me from doing what I want to do and being all that I truly can be.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson