Thing I do miss:
-I miss playing with my animal figurines with the neighborhood kids and playing basketball, going out on the trail behind our houses and jumping off the dirt mounds with the bikes....if you didn't wear a helmet you were "cool". I miss playing outside and a lot of the nieghborhood kids who have long since moved away.
-Elementary School: We had fun class parties and we were all friends. No one ever made fun of anyone as far as I can remember. Getting books from the school library...those were the days
-Going Birding every weekend with my dad.

Things I don't miss:
-Being told I can't do any sports because of the heart condition.
-Being in the hospital and having surgeries to correct the heart condition.
-Hearing my parents fight and thinking they were gonna get a divorce (but I guess every kid thought that!).
-Being bullied, especially in 6th grade. I walk weird, so people like to make fun of me for it. Funny how you're judged as a person simply because you walk differently. Never would I have thought it would matter so much before 6th grade. I never noticed it until people decided to make fun of me. I am in college now, and I sort of grew out of it, but from time-to-time people will still say something. I will always remember what people said about me simply because of that. It was 8 years ago, and I STILL recall it.