My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was told as a teenager that I would never walk again.
My mother is a walking miracle.
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.
In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.
When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.
Pregnancy changed my body; it changed the way I walk.
When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.
My mother had faith in me, had more faith in me than I had in myself, and knowing that she did made me try to find faith. She believed in trying things.
I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried.