As I am sitting here, trying to write the very first post for my blog, I am in math class, trying to work on a very important paper for my diploma. However, my focus is leaving me, all because of an achy and noticeable discomfort and pain on my right hip.

So, I decided to do the best thing I could at the time. When I found myself unable to work anymore because of the pain (and also the pain that math causes to my brain sometimes), I thought I would be productive in another way by starting this blog.

Pain like this is something that I deal with everyday, and no, it is not a normal "pop-an-aspirin-and-it-will-go-away" kind of pain. I guess, it's an abnormal amount and feeling of pain that all comes from my disability of cerebral palsy.

I guess I should start the story by filling you in on what has been happening the last few weeks. Lately, my pain has been off-of-the-charts bad, resulting in a doctors visit, physical therapist visit, crying in school hallways, missing 4 days of school and the inevitable sleepless nights because of it.

And I am still trying to recover from the madness.

I have never felt this kind of pain before in my entire life. Being seventeen, it's not like I had that much of a life to live yet, but if this is the worst amount of pain that I can remember in seventeen years, it has to mean something. I've had serial casting, botox shots, and other types of stretches that make my muscles ache for days on end, but nothing like this before.

Recently, my therapist suggested the idea of a full-leg serial cast on both of my legs. Seeing as this kind of therapy may happen soon, I thought now is a better time than ever to write about my life and the happenings within it, however interesting it is. Full-leg serial casting is a new experience for me, and I thought it would be best to document it, or, maybe I just thought it would be interesting to document it.

I think that will be it for this first post. I do have to apologize that, due to the amount of pain I am in right now, this post probably bounces around from topic to topic. (Editing Sheridan: Yes, past-self, it does). But I guess this is a whole part of the blogging experience as well. I will have good and bad days as I already do, and the best ways to make sure that I am honest with myself and with you guys is to write about them all, even if the writing doesn't make any sense in the way that I wanted it to.

Let's hope this math paper turns out the way I am envisioning it! :)

xoxo,
Sheridan
If you step out that door, you are an Avenger.