My Supports

I would view my daily life as constantly multi-tasking.  I am a mother of 3 children that are home schooled.  I run a small daycare, attending graduate school, handling family issues, and a semi-social life.  I just started this business going on 2 years now.  With any new business, their are struggles that occurr normally within the first two years of operation.  Therefore, without the support of my family and children, I would not be able to substain in this business.  Since I have many things going on in my life, my mother, fiance, and children keep me focused by helping with the chores around the house, cooking dinner,funding, and reminding me of things I need to do. They also let me know when I have taken on too much.  I need this because I am the type of person that will  I feel that a support system is needed with the many demands in my life.  The benefits of having a support system is that I am able to multi-task and accomplish many of my goals that will benefit my family and my community.  Without my support system, I know I would not have accomplished many of my goals thus far.  I know people who do not have support systems like mines.  They what to accomplish some of the same goals but can not due to the lack of support.  It saddens me to think how my life would be without my support system because I rely on them to keep me going.  Therefore, without my children, fiance, mother, and family, I can honestly say that my life would drastically change for the worst.

I imagined being challenged with a disability that impairs your physical ability to do anything for yourself such as talk, walk, move your hands freely, and controll your physical motions.  I chose this type of challenge because many of my family members, my uncle, aunt, and grandmother, have passed away from such disability after living physically impaired half of their life.  I think back on the support they needed and it was love, patience, kindness, support of family members and nurses 24 hours 7 days a week.  One of the most important support factors I would need is acceptance.  I would need the people around me to accept me for who I am and not be burdened down by the many needs that I had.  I would need to be in an inclusive environment that was handicapped accessible.  The activities may need to be altered a bit but at least I would have the opportunity to explore them.  Without the support of these programs, family members, nurses and specialized equipment, my existance would be short lived.  When I relate to my family members who actually lived this disease, I can now understand why they appreciated the help of everyone who surrounded them.  Without the constant care of the nurses and family members,  they would not have lived as long as they have.