Hey everyone I appreciate all of your support during my new journey. I wish I could blog everyday. It is so many new experiences but I am just too busy. Every morning I go to class then I go to my internship every day. Some days I work as many as 7 hours and some days Im in class for 4 hours straight. It is a lot of work. I work at a law firm and I am pretty much the lawyer's slave. I got no training and they pretty much threw me in there head first. I have only been working there 2 weeks but I was ready to quit on the first day because of the attitudes of everyone and the tremendous workload i was expected to complete by impossible to reach deadlines. Things have gotten a little better though. I quit stressing and just started working at my own pace because I was really putting too much pressure on myself to meet the lawyer's expectations. School is pretty good. I just hope I do well on my assignments seeing as how I wake up at 7am, dont get home until around 7pm and rarely have time to just relax (after I cook, clean, etc) yet do homework. It's a lot of responsibility but Im hanging in there.

On a more positive note...

my internship has allowed me the opportunity to help people with their social security disability claims so I am really only choosing to stick with it because I love feeling like I am making a difference and helping people I can relate too. I lost my wrist support 2 weeks ago and still have not found it. I still feel self conscious about my arm and want to cover it. but today when I was going to check my mail one of my neighbors showed me his arm was just like mine. He'd gotten paralyzed after he got shot in the head a few years ago. I told him my story. It was so nice talking to someone who can relate to being "one-handed." I also dont feel so much like a freak because I got asked for my phone # today by this other guy and he told me i look great. that made me feel a little better about not wearing the wrist support in public to hide my "crippled" hand. oh yeah i also went to church and met some really nice people. It felt like one big family. I am glad I feel so normal here