Happy Cerebral Palsy Day!

Being that today is National Cerebral Palsy day...37 years old (I've had CP for 36 years, 7 months, and today)! Yet I'm still awesome, and making history! Take that universe!

Happy Brad Freeman Death, Resuscitation, and Gaining Cerebral Palsy Day!

Happy Brad Freeman Death, Resuscitation, and Gaining Cerebral Palsy Day! (December 5th AKA becoming a rock star)...lol. If you read my post from 2018, you'll get my humor.

On This Day (December 5, 1984), I Stopped Breathing

On this day (December 5, 1984), I stopped breathing and was given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation at 5 months old. Extra irritability than your average baby, coupled with a lack of oxygen to the brain caused my cerebral palsy. I may be anti-smoking, alcohol, and drugs, but this is the day I believe cemented my rock star status. You hear about stories of rock stars overdosing with drugs, and dying, then being resuscitated. But I didn’t even have to do drugs to do it! Haha.

In all seriousness, I know it was an extra scary time for everyone, especially mom. I had just started sleeping thru the night. She came in to check on me, and I was all blue and by all accounts experiencing “crib death”. But I can say this in all honesty, I embrace my cerebral palsy as part of my uniqueness. Not all, but a lot of people with my level of physical severity (not able to walk under my own power, but can with assistance, muscle tightness, and range of motion issues. Also, no seizures, physically writing/typing takes 3 times as long without my speech recognition software, and is tiring like working out), also have a lot of mental problems, which thankfully I have none whatsoever. My higher brain function, mental faculties, and 100% feeling throughout my body are completely and totally intact.

The older I get, the more and more I truly do realize how unique I am. I am how I was meant to be. And I’m the one who wakes up with it every day, so I never understood why other people aren’t okay with it, if I’m totally fine with it. It takes a lot of creativity to live the way I live, and has taken a lifetime of learning how to be self-sufficient, so that I can be as less dependent on people as possible.

And to piggyback off the post on my mom’s timeline, of course I decided to stay, who’s going to keep you sane, and break all the negative stereotypes about people with “disabilities”? I was anti-crybaby snowflake before it was a thing!

On This Day (September 17, 1984) was the Date my Mom was Given as Her Original Due Date

On this day, (September 17, 1984) was the date my mom was given as her original due date for me. But the good Lord (whichever general deity you pray to), or energy that created the universe must have decided that July 2nd would be perfect because they knew I would love football so much, and that I didn’t want to be missing preseason football, as well as high school, and college football either! When asked by their compatriots as to why they would let me be born so early, and with cerebral palsy, the supreme being/creator of the universe, must’ve replied with “he’ll be fine! You’ve never met this kid, but he can handle it. We’ve got other people who are hungry, tired, and being abused in all manner of ways. Brad Freeman is the least of our problems. He’s a winner.” Hehe.