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My Journey Part 1

When I was in the third grade I would go to the nurse everyday because I had an achey stomach. She always sent me back to class telling me I was fine.  I didn't think I was making it up, but I was so young and impressionable that I just let it go. For years, I would get sick  and the doctor would say, you're fine, there is nothing wrong. I would get sick after dinner before a date and I would tell myself it was pre-date nerves. I missed over 60 days of school my senior year of high school. I started getting sick in really inconvenient places.  Every time I  went out with friends to a concert or to the beach or a movie I would get sick. Not to mention  I started gaining weight like crazy.  I went from being really skinny in high school to extremely overweight and hating myself. I started to hate looking in the mirror and I hated going out of the house because I hated how I looked.  I knew people talked behind my back and I knew I was fat, but I was so sick I didn't have the