"I was at the first fireworks that I remember, and a falling firework ash fell into my Wellington boot and burned me. Now I have a nice big scar in the middle of my shin" - Katie O. Her mom only had one rule for this birthday weekend: no flip flops. "For Dana’s birthday every year we went to walk the rock coast in Rockport MA. (Yes, I do have a huge scar from that lovely day.) Your elbow was bleeding the whole day." - Alexandra N. "I don't have too many of my own, but Dana I sure as hell remember watching you somersault down the cement bowl of the skate park when I was trying to teach you how to roller blade. I had a bald spot for five years." - Molly K. "So I'm four years old and laying on the ground in my brother’s room while he is vacuuming. shark attack, stabbed, car accident), because I get a kick out of it, and who cares anyway?" - Ashley J. So sometimes when people ask me what happened I like to make up stories (i.e. It's still pretty big, but I used to be very self-conscious about it. A few years later, I watched them cut out the entire scar to fix the damage, which left me with a new one. The scar didn't heal right, so it was much bigger than they expected. A surgery intern was the one who closed the incision, and they didn't do a very good job. "I had a calcium buildup on my arm, and decided to have removal surgery to get rid of the pain, knowing there would be a huge scar after. So now I have a nice scar in the middle of my chest." - Brittany M. So I had to get open heart surgery to fix the hole or else I would have died before 18 years old- my doctor said my heart and hole was the largest he'd ever seen. Come to find out I had a hole in my heart where 90 percent of the wall between my upper chambers were gone mixing the oxygenated and deoxygenated blood causing my heart to work harder and enlarge ten times its normal size. "When I was a freshman in high school I was at soccer practice and passed out mid warm up run. Their judgments and criticisms stayed with me all through middle school. My parents ignored it and told me to focus on becoming a doctor, expressing that becoming an astronaut is a childish dream and I won't be able to do anything with my life. What if they think this is odd or weird? What if people wouldn't believe in me? What if I begin to think I don't belong in space? When I finally gained enough courage to tell my friends, they laughed it off thinking that I was joking. When I did begin to tell people about my dream, I felt afraid as if I were stuck in a horror movie. Women don't become astronauts it's not a field that they thrive in. While reading this, I realized why voicing my desire to become an astronaut had never happened. While reading about Scott Kelly and the International Space Station, the light bulb turned on: I knew nothing about the space program, so I typed into the Google search bar "women in space." What I found was that there have been 58 women out of 536 astronauts in space. I've never been a very spontaneous person, but since coming to love BTR, they taught me that sometimes, you need to throw away the game plan and take that chance! Keep your feet on the ground and eyes on the stars, and you might just make it BIG TIME! ) Anything can change in the blink of an eye, and whether that be for better or worse, you have to live your life out loud and embrace every chance and crazy adventure that comes your way. Although life has its twists and turns and will inevitably change over time, your roots will always be a part of you and family, both given and chosen, is everything. They were loyal, crazy, passionate, and humble, and it stuck with them until the very end.Īpart from just being an addicting and funny show to watch in our downtime, Big Time Rush taught some very important life lessons as well. Hockey stays with them even in LA, and when the guys got "Hollywood Fever" and tried too hard to acclimate to the new pressures of Hollywood culture, Kendall reminds them of the ice and cold of their roots with a snowball "ice" fight in Palm Woods Park, and things go right back to how they should be. Throughout the show, they always described their identity as "four hockey players from Minnesota with a passion for music and life", and this could not have been more true. When BTR first came to be, Kendall, the leader of the group, made it very clear to Gustavo that it would be all four of them as a singing group or none of them at all.
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