Beginnings

I want to document my life.  I may as well do it on the internet; I may not be a child of the digital age, but I am not too concerned about privacy.  And maybe my writing all this down will help someone somewhere.  I don't know.

All I know is this is something I need to do for myself.

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Think of this as a book of sorts.  It is not a proper biography: it relies too much on memories (and poor ones at that), not enough on facts.  That doesn't matter.  What matters is that I write.

There are four parts to this tale.  Part one is likely to be the shortest, as it is the least well remembered section of my life and the least interesting.  Part two will document the ever-changing fun of living with the early stages of Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (don't worry, I will explain as it becomes relevant) and living with it through high school.  Part three covers college and my attempts to be a normal member of society.  And part four is mostly about what now is like: now, living with FOP in severely progressed mode, living with depression that has been a companion for more than half my life, living as a person when so much of myself has eroded away.

Writing will commence November 1, and there should be a post daily until either a) November has ended, or b) I have run out of material.  (The latter is more likely, I suspect.)  What happens afterwards, I don't know.  I will wait and see.