Day 5 - 6 Years

Today is the 6 Year anniversary of my Diagnosis with a Brain Tumor And i am FOREVER Thankful

6 years ago today i was just a normal little girl......well as close to normal as it gets!

6 years ago today i was sitting in class and excited to get out early that afternoon and spend time with mom and dad.

6 years ago today i was expecting for them to tell me i was allergic to some food

6 years ago today i was only 13

6 years ago today i was only about 80 pounds and 4'9" literally a pint sized person

6 years ago today i was a curly headed ball of joy...still am :)

6 years ago today i was wearing jeans and a hello kitty hoodie (hoodie courtesty of andrea nykamp!)

6 years ago today i got the cat scan...then they "saw too much fluid"...then i got an MRI...then reality struck...i was sick.

6 years ago today, i remember the ride in the orange elevator, the doors opening and seeing the words "neurosurgery/brain clinic" on the walls and thinking to myself "nothing is wrong with me, why am i up here!?"

6 years ago today i can remember the shock, the confusion, the sadness, the anger...i didnt know what to feel

6 years ago today i can remember mom and dad crying in confusion

6 years ago today i can remember having to call my sister and brother and tell them that i had a brain tumor

6 years ago today i remember i became exhausted immediately and just wanted to go to bed

6 years ago today i can remember having to tell Elly, Ana, Allison and Erin that i had a tumor over the phone.

6 years ago today i head a knock at the door and Pastor Joe and Mrs. Coffey came to pray with me...best thing ever

6 years ago today i sat in the cvca lobby with some random kid, totally scared about my cat scan and he prayed for me

6 years ago today i remember asking " Am i going to die" and "Am i going to be the same?"

6 years ago today i remember the responses ... "we're going to try our best to save your life" and "we're not sure, we'll try out best."

6 years ago today i remember the tears in my neurosurgen's eyes...he wanted to give us good news...but there was no good news to give.

6 years ago today i tried to stay strong ... but i couldn't any longer

6 years ago today i was just excited to go to applebees for dinner, i didn't get too

6 years ago today i thought i would be at school the rest of the year

6 years ago today i remember being very light-headed when they told me, then i started shaking and became overwhelmed with fear.

6 years ago today my life was changed

6 years ago today i was told " this is gunna be a long road..."

6 years ago today i met the guy who would save my life ... Dr. Aldana!

6 years ago today i went from being considered "healthy" to considered "deathly ill"

6 years ago today we were told that if my parents had waited a week to take me to the doctor i would have seizured and probably died

6 years ago today i remember hearing the sorrow in my pediatricians voice as he told my mom that i needed the MRI because something was not right

6 years ago today i remember my mom crying outside the MRI machine, thinking i couldn't hear her...ohh mama t

6 years ago today i felt more LOVED than i ever have im my life .

6 years ago today i never imagined that at around 6:00 at night my life would change forever

6 years ago today i remember thinking the worst...thinking i would never survive.

6 years ago today i remember asking God to heal me...or use this story for His glory...whatever was in his will

6 years ago today i was only in 7th grade, i was still a little girl, and i was fighting for my life...

6 years ago today, people started telling me i was their hero...but the truth is, everyone who prayed for me are my hero's...

Psalm 46:5 " GOD IS WITHIN HER, SHE WILL NOT FALL; HE WILL HELP HER AT BREAK OF DAY."

xoxo

Shelby Elyse