"I worry that I might not have anybody to really help me after my next surgery. I can’t walk for like three to four days. Sometimes I worry about what it would be like if I didn’t have anybody to take care of me. And maybe like if I ever got married, if I ever had a kid and he had a heart condition I’d feel kinda bad ‘cause maybe that’s my fault. I’ve always had that fear. Girls probably think about that with me and they probably don’t know that it isn’t genetic, that it just comes with the person.

“I don’t care if I’m cool, lame, totally nerdy or anything. I want to have friends who like me for who I am. Not just people who think, oh you have to act like this. I don’t want to do special things to make people like me. You just get through what you have to. Just because you may be not the fastest kid, that doesn’t mean you don’t have goals. You can’t be that track star, but that doesn’t mean anything. It just means you need to work hard, put in effort, and do what you need to do, want what you want to do. }}}