I was diagnosed six months ago and was thinking how I might share with the girls about how it makes me feel.
I wrote this.
Smaller – by Andy McDowell
My world got smaller
my handwriting
my voice
my walk
my spirit
my balance
the space in the world I take up
It crept up on me - this slowness did
in micro increments
(those are big words for small and slow)
until it arrived with a name
And then it became BIG
and scary
and I didn’t want it
But now I had a face
a reason for the smallness
and so it became what it is
I may be smaller, slower
but I’m still me
