I’m not sure if it is this bitter cold weather or the fact that I don’t sleep well through the night but I spend most days dozing off in my wheelchair. This happens multiple times during the day and they end up just being cat naps. Yesterday, I was dozing off and what needs to happen for me to doze off is I need to pull my arms into the sleeves of my hoodie after I put my hood on my head. I fold my arms across my ches and put my head down so my mouth is inside the nevk of my sweatshirt.
Doing all of these things helps because I can no longer regulate my body temperature, be hot or cold. Yesterday, I had just started to doze off when I heard the beginning bars of The Little Mermaid song! It was, “Part of Your World” and I opened my eyes quickly to found out that it is being remastered shortly.
I saw that same commercial today as well. This morning, when my Mom got here, I told her about it and proceeded to sing, “Part of Your World” in its entirety while sitting in my kitchen as she made breakfast. I still know all of the words! I tried belting it out like I used to when it first came out (when I was eight years old) but, that proved to be really difficult! It was really good that my Mom did not judge me on my performance.
As my Mom and I started to get things together to get me ready for the day, I looked it up on my phone and played this song as a sing-along again! I couldn’t find this song on Apple Music so I just searched it on YouTube. We were involved as soon as it finished playing so another song started, I ended up singing with Aladdin, The Lion King, Sebastian from The Little Mermaid, and Beauty and the Beast.
I was just about finished with my performance of all of these Disney movies that came out when I was a kid But then Pocahontis came on! Really?! That was my grand finale! The whole time I did this, my Mom just smiled and laughed that I still knew all of the words. Talk about exciting music!