Workin out the stress

My name is Brandon. I am a twenty-five-year-old man living in the great state of Texas, believe it or not I say that without sarcasm.

I was born with a disability called Spina Bifida which has required me to use a wheelchair my entire life. I had my first major operation when I was only hours old and to date I've had around twenty-four more. Growing up every summer I would spend in a hospital recovering from one surgery or another. In school I was in remedial classes as a result of my neurological problems. Most recently, five years ago I fell out of my wheelchair at school and broke my leg so severely I had three surgeries and I will have chronic pain for the rest of my life. Oh, and the pain has caused me to gain weight to obesity level.

Whine...Whine...Whine, right? The fact of the matter is that all the above problems do just plain suck. At the same time, everybody else across the world has problems that give them headaches, keep them up at night, and make them just want to check out and go live on an island somewhere. Most never make it to that island, instead they find a way to cope. to persevere.We as humans have a fight or flight instinct and if we're going to make it we damn well better choose to fight more often than not. Today I begin my fight, step by step and problem by problem