So, my hair has been getting pretty long in these past six months! Not too long ago, I remembered that I would French braid everyone’s hair on my basketball team before our game. If it was an away game, I would do it in the bus. If it was a home game, I would braid their hair on the bleachers or in the locker room. It took probably five or six games for me to realize that I was the ONLY person without braids because no one else knew how to French braid!
That’s when I asked my Mom to braid my hair in the morning before school when I had a game. She did that for the rest of my games my senior year. I vaguely remembered taking this picture and seeing it when I found a photo album from my school. I can’t remember the kid on the left’s name. I think it was Zack? But I am Facebook friends with the boy on the right’s sister because we went to school together and were on the same basketball team:
So today, because my hair has grown so long, my Mom French braided it. It was definitely difficult because I’m sitting in my wheelchair and it was a strange angle but it got done!
It has been 21 years since my Mom has braided my hair and I felt like a child as she did. I HAD to have her take a picture of it because I never thought I would have my hair braided again as my disease has progressed and since I chopped all of my hair off 12 years ago to make things easier for me. Now, I can say that she did it again even as I am a grown woman!