Angie's Story

It's been worth every second and I would do it over again in a heartbeat. Food had became my comfort, it became my best friend, and when I went and tried to get into a sorority, and they rejected me, where did I turn to? Papa John's bread sticks and that was my comfort and I was healthy and an active still and it just didn't seem to be a big deal you know. I could do things. But slowly, things kind of started getting in the way. I went to ride at a fair at one of the rides and I realized it wouldn't fit on me and I thought: "Oh, okay well I really don't like rides anyway." It was kind of my excuse and just things. It got harder to do things, harder to get up out of chairs, harder to get up off the ground, and I stopped doing things, kinda "No big deal". I would go to a restaurant and I'd ask for a table instead of a booth, because the booth would push in. I noticed just a little month after I was doing an activity with some kids and I was on the floor and then I stood up and I realized that I didn't have to crawl to something. That was like a first time thing and just being able to do more: playing softball, I played softball last summer and being able to to run the bases and not have it look like first base is five miles away instead of just that short distance, golfing, playing with my nephew, picking him up, swinging him around, running after him through the house and chasing him, it's just before that wouldn't have even happened, you know, there was no way. I might pick him up and say "Okay, I'm done." But being able to play with him and be a part of his life, it's been worth every second, and I would do it over again in a heartbeat.