First off, let me say sorry I haven’t posted in three weeks. Yes, I had to go back and actually count the weeks. I am still upright and mobile but more on that later.

My freshman year of college, it’s strange for me to say that at almost 40, is over. I passed all my classes and ended the year with a 3.5 GPA. The inductions into Phi Theta Kappa and the National Society of Leadership and Success are finished and as of now, I’m enjoying the last couple days of the first summer break. Due to a severe learning disability, I’m having to take a summer class. Also during these three weeks, I received news about my admission application to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

As you are reading this, you are reading words from the newest member of the Spartan family. I have been admitted and registered for the fall term, my sophomore year, in Greensboro. It’s only 45 minutes from home thankfully so I can still see family regularly. I’m taking a full course load and I’m looking forward to the over abundance of history courses I’m getting to take.

As far as my back and the stenosis goes, I honestly can’t say or describe what is going on. We took a trip to the beach and I was a little worried about how I was going to get around since my life was starting to revolve around muscle relaxers and pain pills, but there we were. That Thursday morning, I went to do my hair. I, all of a sudden, felt this horrific painful pop/crack in my lower back and for a few moments I couldn’t move. The only way I can describe this is it felt like my whole lumbar spine moved. It felt like it shifted forward and from that moment on, with the exception of morning stiffness, I have had not one bit of pain. The morning stiffness, I have osteoarthritis in the lumbar spine too, would only last 1 hour tops and it was gone. I am going on almost 2 weeks of no pain and I’m moving around and starting to do things normally once again. All I can say is but God. I wouldn’t be moving around like this if it wasn’t for Him.

Until next week!