The week has been interesting to say the least. I discovered more about CP and the results are staggering. I found out that my body physically ages faster than someone who is able bodied. Scary. This would help explain the slowness and pain though. Mom likes to go back in time to my college days when I zipped across UH campus. I was still in pain then, and had four years of massage therapy to treat the pain. Today, I am looking at options to treat the pain, like massage from interns at a school, pain meds from a specialist, and of course, more exercise. I'm also feeling better about exercise because it always used to just weird me out. I've finally come around though, and discovered that exercise can be fun, instead of a chore. When I dance, life is good. Taking walks with family is also nice.

In other news...I read that the final installment of Harry Potter will result in the death of two more characters. Yikes. It's been said that the last chapter has been hidden away, and no one knows how the book will end. Hmmm....thought provoking.

Work is going to be good this week. My educational hobby is going well too. Letting folks know more about CP has become my mission in life. The friends and colleagues that I educate really care about my health as a whole. Even though my disabled friends and family are gone, the legacy lives on. It's still really hard not having them around. I feel isolated. But I'm doing what I can to educate others. All I can do is hope that they take it as being important.

While my body ages it's important to pay attention to the pain. This is my body's way of saying it needs help. Amazingly, my mind has not been adversely affected here. I'm like my friends in that we could tell people things, but our bodies just wouldn't do the things we asked it to do.

I'm going to keep going on, and hope more goodness will come out of teaching, both in English, and in Spanish. No matter what the language, the needs are still there. It's a bear to deal with, but I'm doing okay. I'll post again as the week progresses. I think overall, life is good right now.