You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every
experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to
say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that
comes along.' Eleanor Roosevelt
I
find this to be true. The best examples of this in my life are my friends who
are veterans. Most of them have lived through some forms of hell I don’t even
want to know about. All of them use it to say, “I made it through that, I can
get through this.” For me, I look at what we went through trying to save James’
foot, trying to get ahead of the infection. We battled for two years.
Eventually, James chose amputation and getting on with his life. When the
doctor said, “Your kidneys are failing,” I thought, “Okay, we made it through
that, we’ll get through this.” And we are. But we aren’t doing it alone. We’re
doing it with the help of many friends and family. We’re doing it with the help
of many who have lived through their own horrors and know that the best way to
get through it is with the help of others.
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