💚💚 HAPPY CP DAY 💚💚
Mine and my sister Brittany journey with all begun on November 2 1998 our biological mom Melanie wanted us but she didn't know how to take care of us her husband Ryan had died in a shooting over drugs had just gotten remarried to now husband Matthew and mom and dad wanted to adopt they looking into it then they heard about us from are really close friends Betty and Ron (Betty pass due to cancer a few years ago) and then mom brother Arthur had cerebral palsy as well and she seen just bad nursing homes were with him she saved him from so many bad nursing homes (he’s in a good group home now) and she didn’t want us to die or end up in a nursing home he inspired her to go ahead and adopt us) so my mom and her really good friend (practically our anut Diane heard about so from mom and dad (john) (Sheri) being good friends and "they our really good friends" we got adopted at 3 weeks old I was 2lbs 2.5oz
And britt was 1lb 13oz we got CP from lack
Of oxygen during the c-section if we were
born one-too years earlier they would have let us die they didn’t save many babies that were born in 1997-1996 that were 24-25 weeks so
Thankfully we made it though we had a less than 10 percent chance of making it they
said we would be vegetables if we made it during our time in the nicu in hot many
bumps we had so many brain bleeds
We had broaderline hydrocephalus an
They couldn’t even place a shunt in us because we were so sick an weak an
could afford to get an infection because
We are allergic to:
Penicillins
Macrolides
Cephalosporins
Sulfonamides
Barbiturates
Benzodiazepines and we also had PBD & retinopathy and britt had MARSA in her right eye thankfully that got healed we had many
Bumps out of nicu as well we were 7 years old and been a little over borderline and they put us in MRI the doctors and nurses and everyone was amazed by it hydrocephalus were completely GONE we have had a lot of bumps in our life’s with our CP with braces casting my sister had a small surgery we have a hard time with things like going places and walking/standing along time doing things like getting dress is getting harder for me getting up the stairs carrying things getting in the car seizures walking pain that is all things that are getting harder but that’s life with CP we both have one leg shorter then the other mine is my right and britt’s is her left that’s another odd thing about being a twin and having CP
Everything is my right and britt’s is her left
have HEMIPLEGIA/UNLIATERAL CP (right side but kinda affects my left to) and britt has
QUADRIPLEGIA/BILATERAL we both have
Out of stocket elbows mine are both out the
left is just a wee bit out the right one is really bad and britt olny has her left elbow out we both have hip arthritis my ankles are so
their made of sticks an one knee is higher than
Other again mine is my right an britt’s is her left I struggle in actually treating my CP than britt because We got 6-8 weeks of casting in 2014 and I was taking 3 types of muscle relaxers like candy because it hurt so I was taking flexeril,baclofen,klonopin I had go off all 3 of them clod turkey because I started breaking out in hives because of my hashmotos an that left me with a hard diagnose of Non epileptic seizures so their fore I cannot do Botox and muscle relaxers anymore can’t wear my braces because how out rage I am an how tight I am an I also have really bad hyperhidrosis so that sucks but hopefully some will happen really soon an I’ll get to wear braces but we still very good friends with our biological family (we have biological brother named chirs) today here's what I and britt have wrong
I'm hypersensitive to pain an I have hypersensitive nerves as well l due to my celebral palsy and hashimoto's
30% daef (only me)
Hypothyroidism
Asthma
sensory neuropathy (I olny have)
Raynaud's syndrome
Celebral palsy
Palmoplantar hyperhidrosis (I olny have)
Sensory processing disorder
Epileptic/non Epileptic seizures (simple partial an generalized tonic conic seizures ( I olny have)
Ulcerative colitis
Irritable bowel syndrome
Gastritis
asthma
moderate hearing loss (I olny have)
Hip inpevment
Hyperglycemia (I olny have)
Panic attacks
(Seizures I can hear and feel pain during them) so I listen to my music southern gospel/bluegrass I love my band buddys They help me by giving me Jesus comfort an calming and comforting me in pain or during seizure etc now out all these medical problems I’m blessed to have them because when I’m having a problem I’m like God put this storm in my life for a reason so I get stronger in him and to be thankful that I’m alive or not worse off so this how God makes something good into something that could have been way worse I’m so thankful for all amazing blessings good or bad because he will use my bad storms for another blessing in life my life is awesome ... But Jesus beheld them and said unto them With men this is impossible but with God all things are possible—Matthew 29:11 #PAINTTHEWORLDGREEN #CPWARROIR #GODSBIGGERTHANMYCELEBRALPALSY #LIFEWITHCP #CELEBRALPASLYAWARENESS
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