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Somebody pinch me please, now!

 This might end up being one of those posts where you have to be in my head to follow my thought process... I'm not a fan of hospitals, scratch that, I'm actually okay going to hospitals as long as I'm not a patient.  I do not enjoy drugs, I hate them to the point that I might actually fall sick at the thought of having to take drugs, they almost always get stuck in my throat especially the tablets.  Like most people I know, I'm not exception in only going t hospital when in pain and absence of pain means that all is great. This is not always the case.  At some point I realised that maybe we do not want to face the unknowns hence shy away from hospitals and doctors.  Save for my dentist, therapist and that one doctor's visit my sibling had that I got to tag along, did I mention that I asked the doctor so many questions I was sure he wished he could throw me out at some point and this was clear from the look on his face,  I have not seen a doctor for almost t

To better days and an end to the anguish

Happy New Year!!!!! 2015 was quite an eventful year so much so that I often caught myself unsure of when certain events had taken place.  It was an amazing year  The conversations around muscular dystrophy became recognised in Kenya and encouraged the entire MD family  to continue talking about what how they go about their lives. #YALI2015  It was an adventurous year  Thanks to the Mandela Washington fellowship, I met amazing people, fell in love with Swahili language for its beauty, got a chance to use a scooter and be fine with it, enjoy it actually thanks to the numerous wheelchair and scooter races on campus, dance without minding about seeming to have two left feet and enjoy moments in the sun after being holed up in a cold room like it's the best thing in the world. #YOLO I discovered the beauty of not giving anxiety too much power over what you can and cannot do the art of not overthinking plans. A lovely bird always tells me that I have OCD that I shouldn't use