My entire life has been filled with tremendous struggles and I have had to be brave. I missed all of 3rd grade because I was completely paralyzed due to complications from chicken pox. Then in my senior year of High School I was hit by a car while I was crossing the street and told I’d never be able to run again. Then in 2011, I had 5 emergency surgeries in 6 days to save my life for thoracic outlet syndrome, rib removal and massive blood clots. Then in 2015, I required emergency brain surgery to remove lesions in my cerebellum. And now in 2020, I found out I have Leukemia. I am a single mother of two beautiful adult children and have always had to be brave throughout my life and now this seems to be unlike anything I’ve had to go through before, even though my life was in serious jeopardy and high risk of dying each time. This time feels different and it is. It’s not an emergency. It’s something that I will die with some day and now must live with. I love the words brave now, because they’re powerful in a sometimes powerless position.
Lorraine’s Story…
