Just one more step....
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The hardest part of getting up isn’t falling down.
- Dad
I just talked to my father. In the middle of our conversation, I told him how harder it seemed to get things done nowadays. I told him about the luster that had faded away from the times when I had the metal equipment impaling my legs. Basically, I was whining. I was telling him how much harder it had become and he said “The hardest part of getting up isn’t falling down.”
Those were just the best words I have ever heard in days (save for the quotes that I highlighted in Life of Pi). The whole point of going through the surgery and process was to rise from the muck that I have been living in. I fell, through the first and most painful part of the whole process. Now I have to wake up my bruised muscles and stand up from my fall. It’s going to be harder than falling but that’s what’s going to get me up.
I feel better now. I’m still in the battle. Tomorrow, I’m going to write down a list on how I am going to win.
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>> The surgery that Vincent undergoes to increase his height in the movie Gattaca. It's named after the Russian doctor who invented it 40 years ago to treat dwarfism. This painful operation adds length by allowing new bone to grow in the gap left by gradually seperating ends of the broken bone. The patient's shinbones are cut in two, a brace is applied and metal pins would pull apart the bones a millimetre each day. Risks include feet permanently turned at odd angles, twisted legs, and weakened bones that break again and again.
>> What I did in June of 2005. I tell people it's either a rock climbing and/or car accident.
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