A look into my life.

The beginning

My life has never been easy, when I was a year old I moved to England, London I don't remember much but I know I used to live with my auntie and her husband and 2 of my cousins somewhere in Harlsden, my parents used to tell us stories how they got to this country and sacrificed a lot for me and my older brother John who is a year older than me. Moving here I thought new start, new life at that age you just never really notice anything, as I grew older let's say 10 years old, I had a lot of complications since I moved to London, did I mention I have a kidney problem? Now I don't want empathy because I'm alive and well. To tell you a bit more about my kidney well I was born with one kidney, and since I was 4 I took medication to help function the one kidney, for me I didn't really realise how hard it was I was 10, my mum and dad did go through all those journeys with me but I just remembered things after I turned 11 so you can kind of guess how hard it was for them to go through that, all those needles, clinic appointments, waiting lists for a transplant. Anyway back to the story, I also have a 5cm difference in my left leg which means it's shorter than the right, when I was only a few days old, I caught a virus in the hospital where I was born and they had to cut a little bit of my growing bone in order to take out a ball that grew on that left leg, sounds gross but that was me, I wasn't what other would call 'normal' which is fine I've learnt to live with it, I kind of have to, it's my life I'm talking about, there's no point being depressed. So my childhood wasn't great, I didn't get everything I wanted or excellent health or 2 right sized legs or even 2 working kidneys but I'm grateful that I'm still breathing. Life for me wasn't easy from the start like I said appointments, blood tests, etc. I never moaned or questioned why I had to be in and out of hospitals because I was too young to understand, my mother said I was always happy, giving and kind, God knows how he does things I be different but I have a big soft heart