The Prosper resident said the hardest struggle of her recovery mentally was having to learn 'the easy things' again.
"I was pretty proud being able to get off the ventilator and getting the trach out, and then being able to talk, and then being able to eat again and breathe on my own. Because some people, once they get on a ventilator, they stay on it for the rest of their lives. Or some people never get their trach out. Or some people have to be on feeding tubes for life.""I was able to get my biceps back and work on strengthening them, as well as getting my triceps back," she said.
"As much as I hate saying this, no one knows the answers. If I'm supposed to walk again, I'm going to walk again. If not, cool, I'll stay in a wheelchair and I'll be just the same person." "Being in the situation that I was in, and having so many things taken away from me so quickly, and being in the hospital and in rehab for so long, it really changes your perspective on life," she said."I think it gives you a new pair of eyes and I think I've just really been able to see what matters to me and kind of focus on that. That's just what I want to do in 2022—to worry less and just be happy.
"I was planning on cheering in college. Obviously now that's not going to happen. That changes a lot because where I wanted to cheer depended on where I was going to go to college. Now that I'm not doing that, I'm more open to a lot of different schools that I might not have been open to," she said.
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