I Can't Turn On The Television Without

If I Had Lost A Leg, I Would Tell Them, Instead Of A Boy, No One Would Ever Ask Me If I Was 'over It'. They Would Ask Me How I Was Doing Learning To Walk Without My Leg. I Was Learning To Walk And To Breathe And To Live Without Wade. And What I Was Learning Is That It Was Never Going To Be The Life I Had Before.

We Were Never A Family That Had A Lot. We Had Enough, But Not A Lot.

Brave People Are The Firemen Who Run Into The Burning Building. That's Brave.

Resilience Is Accepting Your New Reality, Even If It's Less Good Than The One You Had Before. You Can Fight It, You Can Do Nothing But Scream About What You've Lost, Or You Can Accept That And Try To Put Together Something That's Good.

Part Of What I Want To Do Is Sort Of Reclaim My Story - It Belongs To Me And To My Children, Who Have To Live With Whoever Their Mother Is.