5K accomplished... I CAN'T BELIEVE I DID IT!!

Y'all I have so many emotions running thru me right now... I actually did it! I finished the 5K! And with an AWESOME time!(Well awesome for me! I may have finished behind everyone else but none of that mattered because I did it! Walking across that finish line and having everyone clapping and cheering was an AMAZING feeling! As I was finishing all I could think of was the COUNTLESS number of doctors who told me and my parents I wouldn't walk by myself and all the surgeries, hospital visits and doctors appointments I have endured to try to make life easier for me!  I think I just proved all those doctors DEAD wrong!! I CAN walk on my own and I have no one else to thank for that but the good Lord! He gave me the strength and the fight to not settle for what those doctors said! He gave me the will power to defy the odds! All glory definitely goes to him! I also absolutely can not thank these beautiful ladies below enough for walking with me. They are 100% the reason I was able to do it! I love every one of you dearly! Thank you for making this 5K such a blast! I'm also so thankful that my momma and daddy didn't give up on me all those years ago! They pushed me to work my hardest and achieve my goals! I love you both to the moon and back! While I was waiting for the girls to arrive I saw a little boy in a wheel chair stroller just smilin away... Y'all that gave me so much motivation to get out and get it done! I hit 17.92 miles for this week and y'all I couldn't be prouder of that number. Yeah it's smaller then in the past couple weeks but today meant so much more to me then that number! AND I am at 482.50 miles.. Which means I will hit another BIG moment this next week! Just goes to show.. You should NEVER give up on yourself! #WalkinwithKelley #SpinaBifidaSTRONG #Ifinishedthe5K 








❤️Hugs💙
Kelley 

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