My grafts healed very
quickly. This was good in the sense that it locked in
the fact that I would live. It was bad in that it made
my physical therapy start quickly and never let up.
Kevin, my PT, told me that I needed to use all my energy
to exercise or I would lose the ability to use my limbs
and would have to return to the operating room for releases.
I believed him and went at it with a vengeance. It worked.
I asked him to give me a date when I would feel better.
He told me that if I did everything he asked, in about
three months I would feel much more myself, and I did.
I can't tell you how important it is to exercise.
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Hope
More importantly, I need to talk about hope. Hope fueled
my spirit. I hoped for the very best, and lots of people
added to that hope. I gained strength from their strength.
I held on to my sense of humor, but I gained strength
and hope from other people's humor. A sense of humor
can keep you alive, along with all the other factors.
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