God is my refuge. The One I go to when life becomes too much for me to bear. He never fails to strengthen all that is weak.

I lived a happy, healthy childhood. I was brought up in the church and knew Jesus. Though, as I grew older, I began losing sight of the Lord and how blessed I truly was.

I became depressed and developed an eating disorder when I was fourteen. Then in the fall of 1995, life as I knew it changed forever. I was sixteen and a cheerleader for my local high school when I began experiencing problems walking. As months went by, symptoms progressed. I started seeing specialists and undergoing tests. Finally, in the summer of 1996, I was diagnosed with Krabbe disease.