Yay me!!!!

[bleedingangel84]

I just wanted to share something amazing with you all. I actually wrote the alphabet with my right hand tonight. I've said before that I have Cerebral Palsy, which means I have motor control issues. My left side has always been my best side, and my right side has been a little less useful to me. For a long time, I couldn't use it very much at all, but recently, I've started to get more control with it. I know it might seem silly to be so happy over this. It looks like a kindergartener wrote it, but some of the letters are actually legible. Which is hugely exciting for me, considering this is the first time I've had the control to actually hold the pen and write with it.  This gives me hope. Hope that I can keep improving and get better. That's worth more than words can express. There are so many times I'm so close to giving up, but this makes me want to keep trying. I did something today I never thought I'd be able to. For once, I'm actually crying happy tears. Yes! I feel proud of myself. It's such a small, tiny thing, but it's everything. I have no words for how overwhelming this feeling is.

I hope you are all having a wonderful day. Much love to all of you.

Comments

[nenne.livejournal.com]

Go you! :) I'm happy for you.

[bleedingangel84.livejournal.com]

Thank you! <3

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

With CP, are you able to "train" parts of your body you've had little control over and get more function? Like, exercises you can do?

[bleedingangel84.livejournal.com]

Every case is different, so far as I know. There is physical therapy and exercise, but everyone I've met with CP seems to respond to it with varying degrees of success. I've known people with it that aren't even able to brush their own teeth, so I feel extremely lucky that I'm able to do as much as I am. I've been able to get more control with my right hand because I use the computer a lot. Clicking the mouse with my right hand I think forced more motion out of it, and now I can even type with my right hand more. The writing bit was a major surprise, though. I took it in my head to try last night and was shocked that I was able to do it at all. I had tried to before, but I'd never managed the whole alphabet. So it was a good moment. lol