SAFFY
Sometimes people surprise me, sometimes I even surprise myself.
I met this girl in rehab, Kayla, she was tall and slender you could almost believe that she was a model, she looked so grown-up and elegant with her long shiny black her and creamy skin, she has become my closest friend.
It makes me feel bad though when I think about how I was before, I never would have been friends with Kay, in fact I probably would have shunned her and thought she was a freak.
When I think about how awful her life has been it makes me feel bad about complaining about a few muscles that don't work.
Kayla's mum had ALS, which from what I understand is something that gradually destroys your motorneurones, they're the things that send messages from your brain to all of your muscles until you can't move, or speak or swallow or even breath and eventually you choke to death, which is what happened to Kayla's mom.
Now it's just her and her dad, they live on this farm just outside of town.
Kayla volunteers at the rehab center at weekends, Patty, my nurse tells everyone that she is an inspiration to us all.
Which she is, I am the first to admit that. If my mum had died so horribly and I lived in the middle of nowhere, I don't think I'd have the disposition of Little Miss Sunshine.
Mind you it's not like she could scream and shout even if she wanted too.
That's the other 'special' thing about Kayla, she can't speak, apparently she had cancer when she was a baby and it damaged her voice box.
We have what you might call interesting conversations!
I talk and she writes down her answers, it's tedious at times to say the very least but communications are improving since Kayla's been teaching me sign language because now I know what she is saying without her having to write it down the whole time and although I can't sign back to her she can hear what I'm saying.
The absolute best bit though is that Elton has the biggest, most thumping crush on her that you could possibly imagine.