The Crazy, Mixed-up Life of Your Not-So-Average Teenage Girl

The Diary of the Crazy, Mixed-up Life of Your Not-So-Average Teenage Girl

   Let me tell you a little bit about myself. My name is Catherine. I am 5 feet 3 inches. I have brown hair and brown eyes. I am very..... expressive. Yeah, that's the word. Right.... Haha. ANYWAYS, I have a 7-year-old brother who, honestly, I think just lives to annoy me. I am in the 7th grade. I am 12 years old. And I am a military brat. *Sigh* it can really suck sometimes, but it helps me to see all the places the world has to offer. I love to read and write. My favorite subjects are Science, Math, and Literature. I have a pacemaker. For those of you who don't know what a pacemaker is...... ***FLASHBACK TIME!!!*** before i was born my heart beat to slowly-my heart rate was 53, the average child's heart rate is 70-130. SOOOOOO, you can see the problem there. After i was born I was taken into surgery and they put my pacemaker in to, well, control my pace. BUT, i now have a giant scar going down the middle if my stomach that begins right below my breast down to my belly-button (Haha. I said 'belly-button.) And i have another running from my right side of my stomach to my belly-button (Haha. I said 'belly-button' again. I know, real mature right.) I had that one there until I was three but I had to have it replaced. I was AGAIN whisked of to surgery and they put another in right below my collar bone and just above my left breast. At the time I was to small to take the otheer one out at the same time so they just left it in there for the time being. I then had a scar that was in an arched shape and about the size of your pointer finger there. One day I came home from school and there was a message on the answering machine- I played it. It was a message from Medtronic- the people who made my pacemaker- and it said my pacemaker had been re-freakin'-called. Which bacically means there was something wrong with it and at any second it could stop working. My only question.....

WHAT THE FUDGE MUFFINS!!!!! I MEAN MY GOD!!! SERIOUSLY PEOPLE?!?!?! YOUR TELLING ME THAT AT ANY FREAKING SECOND THE MACHINE INSIDE MY BODY THAT KEEPS MY HEART WORKING PROPERLY COULD STOP WORKING!?!?!?!?!? IS THIS A JOKE BECAUSE I REALLY DON"T FIND THE HUMOR IN IT!!!!!!!!!

SOOOOOOOO....... that summer I was taken up to Duke Children's Medical Center and they replaced my pacemaker and took out the old one left in my stomach. The thing that amazes me is a little, tiny machine the size of a Girl Scouts Thin Mint cookie had a battery life of 10 years! I will have to get it replaced again when I'm 19. I know there are some people out there who are probobly wondering if I'm self-concious about my scars when i go to the phe pool and stuff or just in general. But I'm really not. I have a unique story and it gives the boys a reason to start staring. *WINK**WINK* *NUDGE**NUDGE**

   Enough about my pacemaker. I also have ADHD only without the hyperactivity. It only makes it hard to focuse on stuff im not intrested in and the smallest things can distract me and i daydream a lot and I procrastinate a lot too. I got it from my mom, who got it from her mom and so on. On the upside of having ADD when I do enjoy something and it intrests me it takes a few minutes and I am in the zone. I just get in this frame of mind and nothing distracts me and I get through it REALLY quickly. I do take medicine for my ADD though it does help on those things I'm not interested in but not to a great extent. On the downside of taking the medicine for kids my age it makes me lose my appitite. So I could skip lunch and breakfast and I wouldn't be hungry so that's kind of bad because it makes me lose a lot of weight so I really have to make sure I eat. But if I don't eat all the hunger i missedd throughout the day hits me like a ton of bricks around dinner time when my medicine wheres off. So, I usually end up eating like a pig at dinner. I also am usually skinny. I'm not skin and bones or anything like that. I am just skinny, but I really do have to watch my weight.

   When I grow up I want to be a psycologist- I will tell you the story another time on why. I am MADLY in love with One Direction. If you don't like them I highly suggest you stop reading because I talk about them a lot in my everyday life. I love my two dogs Sparky and Prince. I love life and I have a very strong faith in God and I thank Him everyday for giving me another day of life to love.

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Sorry that was a lot longer than I expected it to be. I just got in the zone again beecaus I love writting. Please vote and comment to tell me what you think! Love you all! GOODNIGHT