Tag: heart health

I Didn’t Think I’d Live This Long

In my head, I was forever 21 and reaching middle age just didn’t seem to fit with my persona.

Getting hurt is easy, not letting it change who you are isn’t.

In that hospital bed, the question of whether I would do anything for my kids was real.

There are some days when I am in awe of his nerve.

For a kid, those insults are worse than mean, they’re true.

Honestly, kids aren’t the ones who need to pen letters to Santa Claus anyway.

Yeah. He’s not gonna look. You can just take it.

I thought to myself, “Well, that was different. I guess that’s who I am now.”

I thought about what it would be like to go back and tell myself in 2011 all that was about to happen.

I’ve made a lot of changes since that day in 2012 but it didn’t happen overnight…