(This is out of place)
Since I was getting better, I decided to try to get on my feet again. I ended up going back to college for a Computer Information Systems Sciences degree (CISS) at Columbia college. I worked hard every day to get through my classes and ended up on the dean’s list for most of my semesters.
Each class was grueling, but something kept pushing me forward. I needed my son to see that disability wasn’t the way to go through life. I needed him to see that I could still move forward and get better and try to make a new life for myself. Little did I know at the time that God was helping me every step of the way.
I graduated in 2019 with my bachelor’s and while it took me two years, I eventually found a job in Columbia Missouri with IBM of all companies. Funny thing is the first computer I ever bought was an IBM PC XT (5150) when I was in high school in the 1990’s. It cost me 50 bucks, which I really didn’t have but it came with a dot matrix printer and was powerful enough I could type up reports and with a few motherboard and case replacements it was running windows.