Here She Is…

The only bummer is that I won't get to walk in graduation as Team Training is in June instead of what I thought, July.  There is no choice though because my service dog takes priority over walking!  I will still graduate from high school; everything will work out!  

       Here she is!  Her name is Cleo!!

My Canine Partner

Have you ever been waiting for something for what feels like ages?   Have you ever screamed in excitement while smiling ear to ear?  Have you ever called the whole entire family and left excited/happy voicemails?  I have and it is wonderful!
       I was at the elementary school where I volunteered and the kids were still at recess, so I was checking my email inside the classroom.  I noticed an email with the subject "service dog".  I tapped it and the email read something like this, "if your main goals for a dog is still retrieving, opening doors, and locating curbs we have a dog for you".  I replied along the lines of, "YES, YES, AND YES"!  That day when I got home I called just about my whole family.  About a week and a half later I got the official phone call confirming my match with a dog!
       This July I will be going to a three week teem training and bringing home my service dog!  Thank you Canine Partners for Life for training a dog to specifically meet my need.s.  Thank you everyone who helped raise money and make this possible. 

Days

This screen so bright, hurting my eyes.

I am in the middle of the ocean with no escape,

Being drowned and pummeled by this pain.

To complete what has to be done, I am trying.

With what is supposed to make that easier, I am dying. 

I wish that it would stay at bay,

And let me live my way!

But, for now, I will just try to live my life. 

On a sale of one to ten how bad?

I speak this language with such ease it is crazy.

To get me through each day much medicine must be had. 

This fact used to terrify me,

But now I just must take what is given and be glad. 

For looking away, closing my eyes, and taking medicine brings too much relief. 

Plans Followed Through

I sometimes wish I could go with the flow, fly by the seat of my pants, and not have to make plans.  Not have to always ask a caregiver to help me get ready within a couple hours, have to schedule a bus ride to and fro.  I do not let the wind carry me because then I would never feel it. 

       But, I am not the controller of life.  It can not always be planned, but since I am engineered to plan I do not take sudden changes well.  There is only so much that can be planned and I leave the rest up to God!  What I can plan, though, I stick to.  Carrying my word through is important to me. 

A Minority Who Sits In The Back

Do you ever look at the car ahead of you and wonder where they are going?  Do you ever look at the plane above you and wonder if they are going home or on a trip?  So many people on this planet doing everything.  So many people on this planet with so many different dreams and stories.  So many people on this planet who come to America to live out their dreams in "the land of the free and the hom of the brave".  Yet, so many people had to fight for their rights. 

       In our history books, though, we don't read about every minorities fight for rights.  We only read and learn about African American civil rights.  Do you know who Martin Luther King is?  The guy who wrote the "I Have a Dream" speech.  Do you know who didn't give up her seat on the bus?  Claudette Colvin. 

       The lebian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBTQ) community is even receiving a spot in our textbooks.  Do you know when they were granted the right to marry?  2015.  What else do we know?  Well, not much because this minority will soon be taking a seat in our curriculum. 

       But a minority that is often forgotten is the persons within the disabled community.  Did you know the people with disabilities litterally threw themselves out of their wheelchairs and crawled up the steps of congress to get the Americans with Disabilities Acr passed?  Did you know we so often still get discriminated angriest and talked down to?  Our seat are in the back and that needs to change!

       We are all Americans and deserve to be treated equally.  We are all human beings!