This book is about overcoming adversity. Looking complexity straight in the eyes and hearing the words you can. Facing obscurity dead on and hearing the words never give up.
These are just words, but take these words into your heart and into your soul and let them become your spirit. This is when the words; I can’t will never recognize you again. You will see how the human spirit, the spirit that lives in all of us, is stronger than anything on this earth.
In this book you will see just how special we all are as individuals. You will feel the tension as a man continues on when there’s nothing but hope to hold on to. You’ll experience the perseverance demonstrated as a man breaks down the mental and physical barriers that stand before him. You will feel the pain as a wife joins her husband as they carry the hardship of a lifetime on their shoulders, and a mother as she watches a son fight yet another round of obscure pain and frustration.
Although hounded by constant depression, everyday is started with a welcome smile, a smile that became excessively contagious to everyone around. While facing the fear of the unknown he defiantly never gave up on himself as he boldly fought to regain his independence. You will experience the joy and happiness of becoming a winner in every sense of the word.
This is my story, and one of the reasons I’m here today to tell you my story is because I took the words I can and never give up and made them a part of me a long time ago. I’m a fifty-three year young freelance comedy writer and I finally found out a few short years ago that if you inject adversity with humor you’ll get a laugh every time.
My story is about the almost unbearable pain one can suffer when a soul is broken. The disappointment in your fellow man; questioning authority when you’ve been taught not to, just as a child would look in puzzled wonderment if his or her Teddy bear were to just disappear or the extreme horror of a parent loosing a child. As I stood in grim defiance of pain, a pain that some would call a weakness. The pain of having my spirit ripped from within leaving me to wander in disbelief. With only a broken body to search for hope and a clouded mind to look for inspiration, I was able to spark a spirit from within and find hope through others. To give inspiration is to give life, because life is not just the beating heart.
In 2006 I believe a medical mistake had left me paralyzed. Led to believe I had suffered a small stroke that was located in a bad part of my brain, my family and I reluctantly accepted the hand I was dealt. Confused at the time however, was this tainted drug that was heparin? Could this drug that allegedly originated in China have been in circulation in the United States at that time? Could it be this medication covered up by other aggressive medications, been what caused my paralysis?
Could it be possible the very aware doctors and staff worked in such brilliant harmony to hide between the legal lines of injustice while blatantly displaying a total disregard for human life? While fighting a frustrating battle to uncover this injustice I also took on the almost impossible challenge of regaining my independence. It would be a war that was against all odds. However, being almost completely paralyzed and still carrying with me an array of other physical difficulties such as severe scoliosis to name just one; still I was able to win that war.
Being blessed with the maturity to shy away from revenge through forgiveness I was able to overcome my adversity and win the 2007 Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation’s Triumph of the Human Spirit award. Only to continue on and live my not so impossible dream of walking my daughter down the aisle on her wedding day
My story is true and my journey is triumphant. The people you’ll meet are some of the most incredible, caring, giving, people in the world and they are right here in our own backyard.
However, I inevitably had to travel to a place and time in my life I had no idea existed. This place was a medical center where I experienced total disappointment in my fellow man. This was a place where I found horror, pain and deception. It was a living nightmare, a nightmare and adversity that were overcome through love, devotion, believing in myself and rising above the pain and deception to become a winner.
This book is also about regaining normalcy in a life, a normalcy that was the consistency of everyday living; something so simple that is your world and nothing will stand in the way of your return.
Finally after eight days of unprofessional care and neglect I was moved to The Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, where they opened the door to recovery. After three years of retraining my body and mind for normalcy I’ve surpassed all goals and have presented just cause to rewrite many statistics.
As you get to know this main character you’ll cheer him on, you’ll join his team and you’ll love him like a brother. You’ll close the final chapter feeling yourself as a winner.
Why did I write this book? I wrote this book so that I could piece the puzzle that is my life and as a result we all may enjoy a story of hope, perseverance and winning.
However in addition, recognize that revenge and forgiveness are truly on opposite sides of the moment. Consequently forgiveness converts the moment and retribution is wisely no longer recognized.
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