I guess you can say I over came a few obsticles...

(so yeah, I tried to paste my bio in the "about me" section of my blogger -- when we were told to do this at the beginning and i completely misunderstood -- and that's why it wasn't posted, I swear I'm smarter than this! here ya go!)

I was born on November 29th 1988 in Brigham and Women’s hospital. Unlike most babies, I wasn’t born full term and my mom went into labor at 7 months. I was born premature and stayed in the hospital for over a month before I was able to go home. I was born with a heart condition known as Supraventricular Tachycardia, which basically means that my heart beat was abnormally faster than it should have been.



Growing up was a bit difficult I was always the fat kid. Having my heart condition didn’t help either. Even though I was medicated and kept control of the tachycardia my parents still felt they needed to protect me and that meant no sports and any real physical activity. This angered me so much as I watched all my friends run around and play without a care. I was stuck on the stoop or looking out the window watching them have fun. One year I convinced my father to let me play football for the local league and he went for it. I managed to go to all the practices and my dad pulled me out of the team right before the season started. I was so upset and I felt like a loser.



When I turned 12 I was tired of being the fat kid who couldn’t play sports. So when my cardiologist proposed a procedure called catheter ablation I was ready for it and wanted to get it done. My parents at first weren’t on board with it they wanted to know everything about it. After learning about the procedure my parents finally gave in. Post the procedure everything ran smoothly I was off the medication I had taken the first 12 years of my life. I signed up for numerous sports teams and became very active. I finally felt like I was one of the kids instead of the one who watched sitting down.



After going through some of tough obstacles in my life I decided not to let anything get in my way and just go for it. Now I’m in my second year of college and trying to make this college thing work. I realized one thing and it was that the struggle will never stop and I’m going to have to keep fighting and working hard to get where I want.