WHEEL
A Recovery from chronic pain and discovery of new energy
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Hello, my name is Sylvia and I have lived with chronic pain for fifty-seven years. Today I still have the pain, but I no longer suffer—I got my life back. Hurrah, I won and so can you! This book tells a little bit of what it was like, what happened and what it is like now—in recovery this is called experience, strength and hope. Now I have a fuller and more pleasurable life. I do not mean to upset the apple cart as far as what your beliefs or thoughts might be concerning healing and spirituality, because it is not believing or thinking that really matters. Rather, it is about knowledge, and there can be no question of a knowing. I merely ask that you keep an open mind… for only what is worth shall I write.
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About the Book
Yes, today she feeds the goose that lays the golden eggs! But her life once read like a mystery, because for forty-five years she had spasms of the face and neck, her head would ring and, most baffling of all, she had an ache deep in her chest like she was having a heart attack. Unbeknownst to her family, she lived with depression from the age of ten, until finally ending up in a psychiatrist’s little crash pad shortly after having a beautiful little girl. From here she began a quest to try to do herself in—she tried six times! Then it finally became apparent she was living with chronic pain, and a sublime head injury that kept her from accomplishing her quest of a nursing career. Then, in 2002, at the age of fifty-four, she finally threw up her arms and became willing to do whatever it took to get her life back. She began the twelve-step process of recovery that would open her life to healing. She soon found herself, strangely, thanking God for her affliction. Then, one day in June of 2002, she decided to live. Today she still has the pain but no longer suffers. Now it is a blessing to have lived, because her life has become part of one very big, ongoing miracle, a miracle of which you, the reader, are a part.
About the Author
This is the author today with the red, 10-speed Raleigh she purchased shortly after being hit by a car in Florida in 1974. She still rides it around her home in central Pennsylvania, where she has lived with her husband of thirty-four years. This book is a testimony to the fact that a person living with long-term, chronic pain can live a relatively normal, satisfying and even pleasurable life. Be the master of your soul, a willing and happy participant in the world.