BELIEVE

When I received my MS diagnosis on May 9, 2011, my prognosis was that I would have five years until I was in a wheelchair and probably ten years until I died because of the disease. The disease causes the white brain matter, or the central nervous system, to be damaged or become “stripped,” so it can no longer receive the messages of the brain or transfer them to the body. It is much like when an electrician strips a wire to conduct electricity from the outlet in the wall (the brain) to the light or object (the body). As this process in my body progressed, which I was told it would, over time, these would be the lasting effects.

Anyone who knows me or how I think knows I would not accept this. I am VERY STUBBORN, believe in the body's ability to heal naturally (thanks to my upbringing), and I believe that if you think about what you want, it must come true (because that is what the Bible says).

At the time of the diagnosis, I was 39 years old and just finishing my first year of chiropractic school. It was a second career choice after my husband and I simultaneously lost our jobs in 2008. I knew that if I didn’t get back to school now, I never would. It had been a lifelong dream since I left school in 1991. So, I sat in my hospital bed alone after receiving the diagnosis and asked GOD, WHY??? WHY NOW?

I finally had my life and career figured out, and now this?

I clearly heard at that moment two things:

1.      I wouldn’t bring you anything you can’t handle or get through.

2.      You will be your first patient; you have to reverse this so you can help many others who will come to you for the answers.

At that moment, I knew the Chiropractic philosophy "If you remove interference from the body, it will heal on its own.”

It became time to put this belief I had held my whole life to the ultimate test! My journey began with the absolute expectation that I would get through this and help more people once I succeeded!

I bring you this story from the book, ‘BELIEVE.’ People must begin again to trust their bodies and the healing power that lives in them! Nothing on the outside, no medicine or surgery, can heal the body. Only you can. You need to activate this healing from the inside out!

This is the way I successfully reversed the debilitating symptoms and prognosis given to me with my MS diagnosis. On the book's first page, I would like to write a dedication to my family, friends, and doctors who saw me through to the other side. VERSE: Joshua 1:9 Says:

“HAVE I NOT COMMANDED YOU? BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for the LORD thy GOD is with you wherever you go.”  

When you are going through the “desert” or feel like you are all alone in your sickness and that no one understands you or what you are feeling, know GOD (or your higher power) is with you. Keep your thoughts positive and the result clear in your mind, even though you are seeing or experiencing something clearly different.

BELIEVE you can and will get better. And lastly, Belief + Action (you have to do the things written in this book) = SUCCESS! Now Go! Get on your path and keep walking each day, step by step, day by day!s