The thing about any loss is it has up days and down.

I love it when I get to blog about my successes and good days.  I enjoy sharing my experiences and joys in learning new things and facing this disability head on.  Then I have the down days that are totally normal with this new reality.  But I have found that I am more hesitant to share about those down days and feel like I am being a downer.  However, the reality is that this is the reality of a loss by medical condition.  You have successes and good days, but you also have struggles and less than glorious days.  It is what it is.  I am trying to push through and share more of the down days as well, because the reality is that if people are encouraged by what I write, they will also be encouraged that they too are not alone on this journey and that the ups and downs are normal.