Day 624

Believe you can’t and you won’t, believe you can and you will  – that’s what I keep learning

It’s 4 : 08 PM on day 624 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth,  feed myself  a boiled egg  for breakfast, drink  Green Tea by myself,   publish my Disability of the Day feature, exercise my right hand –  I  cut  bread and polony into smaller pieces using a knife with my right hand today I had the hardest  time picking up the knife with my right hand but just as I was about to give up I did it  pretty soon I will have mastered using a fork and knife I am SO PROUD of me    – and feed myself raw tomato and fried carrots  for lunch.

A couple of days ago I stumbled across Stephen Wampler’s story – in 2010 Stephen (a man with severe Cerebral Palsy climbed El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, a formation that is twice the height of the Empire State Building, with the complete use of just one arm) – I was INSPIRED peeling a banana is hard for me but seeing Stephen pulling himself up to get to the top of El Capitan I realized I was right in thinking you can’t fail unless you quit. Watch Stephen climbing El Capitan below: