Life is not over. I once was in your position and I believed that all of my hopes and dreams were crushed. That everything I worked for no longer mattered. All I could focus on was the past. I so desperately wanted the life that I used to have. How can I be happy without […]

Read More To the Recently Injured and to Those Who Have Lost All Hope

I’ve been through hell. But my faith is stronger than ever. I’ve had everything I loved to do taken away from me. But I’m still here with a smile on my face. I’ve had to overcome both physical and mental obstacles that set up a roadblock that I thought I would never pass. But I […]

Read More Changing Directions

Dear God, Are you proud of me? Was I worth saving? Have I proven to you why I was worth saving? Was this the path you chose for me? Because it just seems so clear to me. Thank you for paving it for me. I’ve never been so focused or have seem so clear in […]

Read More Dear God

I had two choices on how to live my life after I left the hospital. The first was to live in self-pity and to focus on what I can’t do and not what I can do. To live in the past and to forget about the future. The second was to move on and to […]

Read More Keep Calm and Carry On

So this is my story…and you probably think you know how the story ends. But you’d be wrong. This moment, right here, is where the story begins. Because what you thought was the end was only the beginning. One of my caretakers will often tell my story to her family and friends. She can’t stand […]

Read More The End is Where I Begin – TEDxOhioStateUniversity Speech