How To Survive a Setback
Learning To Pray This is a true story. It actually happened to me. If you read my bio, you will know that I had a West Nile v iral infection from a kidney transplant in 2009. I was immunosupressed to protect the transplant, and so I got neuro-invasive disease leading to profound weakness. Every muscle in my body stopped receiving signals from my brain. I was so weak that I couldn't even breathe on my own. I was put on a ventilator in the ICU. After a few months. when I got strong enough to wean off the ventilator, I was moved to a rehabilitation hospital. There, I could breathe and move my fingers and neck a little. I was basically paralyzed, confined to a hospital bed. They gave me a call button so I could let the nurses know when I needed help with an itch, a pain, the bathroom, or other sudden need. During the night, the button was placed in my palm so that I could make the call. Not good enough. If it happened to fall out, which happened often, I could