Originally Posted by
adam_05
ok bro,
i've had a pretty shitty hand delt to me in life,and im not lookin for pity here,im just sharing my story.
i was born with a lung disease,which will eventually kill me no matter what i do or how healthy i try to be.my sisters were born with the lung disease also,my first sister died when she was 12y.o. and i was 10y.o.
i turned diabetic when i was 16 and it was bad because it made me real sick and i lost alot of weight and i went into the hospital wei***ng 87lbs,yes i said 87lbs when i was 16.i was a scrawny 16y.o. so losing 35lbs in a month hurt me pretty bad.
so now i have a terminal lung disease(Cysitic Fibrosis if any of you are wondering)and now im diabetic,which is caused from the Cystic Fibrosis.so i made a promise to myself that i would never be that skinny again.i weighed 87lbs at 5'7 and my blood sugar was 890,yes 890 when i went in the hospital.
so i lifted for a few years until i got into drugs and trouble,and by the time i was 20 i was in prison for 18months and got out just before my 22nd bday.
i got back into lifting,turned my life around and had a job a place of my own and my own car that i bought with my own money.i felt good about myself for the first time in my life.
then i got into an accident on the way home from work.i fell asleep at the wheel and went into the cornfield at 65mph.i ended up in the passenger floorboard even with my shoulder belt on.
from then on i was and always will be a Paraplegic for the rest of my life.then 3 months down the road,my 29y.o. sister died from her lung disease.so it was a pretty shitty year for me.i was numb for about a year.i didnt do anything.didn't lift.didn't go out.didint eat much.....etc.....
so now im 25y.o.,im in a wheelchair,and my only 2 siblings are dead.
how do i stay motivated? i do it because i know my sisters would give anything to be alive and well and im not going to disrespect them by wasting my life away.i try to lift as much as i can,between my diabetes,lung disease,and paralysis.yeah i get sick and have to go in the hospital,but once im better i keep going strong,because if i dont i might as well die now.
so what i say to you is,try to think of how fortunate you are to have your health,your able to use you whole body,you have your family.
try to think of all the people that arent physically able to achieve what you are able to,because there sick or crippled.
plain and simple,do it for the people who would give anything just to be able to have one good workout.
like i said,not lookin for pity or whatever.just trying to say there are worser things that could be happening in your life.
keep up the good work bro!
Adam.
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