Hi everybody! My name is Grace Atteberry and this is my story! When I was 10 years old I was told by the doctor I had a hip disease called perthes that I was actually born with. Basically what perthes is, is a rare childhood condition that affects the the hip. It happens when the blood supply is disrupted and the bone cells die. My left hip went back to its normal self but my right one didn’t. I then had one leg shorter than the other. Having this disease for so long without realizing it, caused me many years of hip pain but I still continued to play sports and do everything a child possibly could. After finding out I had it, the doctor said I would have to get surgery both on my knee and my hip to get my hip back to normal, at the age of 10 and 11. Because of this intense surgery the doctor told me I could never run again as the impact would badly effect the hip. This meant every sport I knew and loved couldn’t be played anymore. It felt like my world stopped at such a young age. I loved being active and doing everything I possibly could. This caused me to fall into depression and eat my sadness away. I thought my life was over and was so angry with God at the fact that he dealt me with this. After a couple years I decided that if I couldn’t do the sports I wanted to, I’d find other things to take that place. I fell in love with chorus and stayed in chorus throughout middle and high school and also played golf throughout high school. I still sometimes question the fact that God gave me the life He did, but I am constantly reminded that if it wasn’t for how the course of my life went, I wouldn’t experience the things I did or be the person I am now. I may not be able to do many of the sports I wanted, but I am still beyond blessed to get to do the things I get to do now. I didn’t have it bad at all, it was just a little obstacle in my life that I had to figure out how to step over. I would not be at the school I am now, wouldn’t have met the people I did, wouldn’t have experienced the things I did if it wasn’t for that hip disease and I thank God for how he helped me along the way. I am now going into pediatric nursing to help those kids out just as my nurses did for me when I was 10 years old. I am going to make a difference to those kids and use what God dealt me with to the best of my ability. It took a long time to get over my anger and hurt, but I found my true identity in that disease and with what happened. I realize every single thing that has happened in the past was what got me to where I am. If I had to do it all over again to be where I’m at, I’d do it in a heartbeat. I may have lost a lot of things when I was young but I only gained way more beautiful things down the road. Whatever you’re dealt with in life, don’t be angry at God or yourself! He knew you could handle what He threw it at you. Find out what that is, and make God and yourself proud! You can do so much with what you think you can’t.
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Edited:Â May 18, 2020
Finding my identity with what God dealt me with
Finding my identity with what God dealt me with
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