Condensed Chicken Soup to Inspire the Body Soul – Dành cho những con người vượt lên số phận docx

[...]... can and run the good race in the remainder of my life Maybe only a few will take the path I’ve chosen, but if shar¬ing my story helps a few more to step forward and race for life, it will have been all the more worthwhile - Ruth Heidrich, Ph.D To suffer confusion is the first step in healing Then the pain of contradiction is transformed into the mystery of paradox The capacity for paradox is the measure... and slid down the slide Then it was time for the races These were no ordinary races Someone had come up with the idea to have picnic kind of races, like pass the potato under your neck and hold an egg on a spoon while you run to the finish line I don’t really remember too much about those, but there was one that I will never forget _ the threelegged race The parents decided not to use potato sacks for... taking time out from their pur¬suit of their own goals to help a fellow person in need And I told them why I’d kept that red ribbon “ You see, to me that ribbon is a reminder that you don’t have to be a winner in the eyes of the world to be a winner to those closest to you The world may judge you a failure or a success, but those closest to you will know the truth That’s important to remember as we travel... go of the railing with one hand Then came the crucial moment I released the other hand _ and there I was, swinging in small arcs over the canyon So far, so good “ Now _ very slowly _ inch your way down a foot or two.” I did At that moment, my fear was transformed to excitement It was easy for me to operate the pulley I took a long time lowering myself to the bottom, relishing the view and my victory... surgery, they would then have to remove the other breast due to its high risk of being cancerous as well Worse yet, in the three-year period that the doctors had been “ watch¬ing” the tumor, it had spread to my bones and left lung Devastated, feeling betrayed by the medical system and by my body, I enrolled in a breast cancer research study conducted by author and physician John McDougall It required me to. .. Ironman I entered “ The Run to the Sun,” a 37-mile run up to the top of Haleakala, a 10,000-foot high mountain on the island of Maui, Hawaii I remember reaching the twenty-six-mile point and looking back down at the ocean far, far below, not believing that these two legs had already carried me the equivalent of a full marathon-straight uphill Then I turned back toward the mountaintop, still more than... của mỗi con người - Robert Johnson Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen _ Racing for life Breast cancer These words, this cold clinical diagnosis, were to shatter my life, then transform it The words stirred a cauldron of red-hot emotions: rage, fear, hatred Now it seems so long ago _ literally another century, 1982 _ when the doctor told me the condition I remember the day and moment of the dreaded... I would have tried anything to help save my life The only difficulty here was that I could not take chemotherapy or radiation because the challenge was to see if a vegan diet alone could reverse the cancer I talked to my then-husband He thought I was crazy to think that diet had anything to do with breast cancer, and he believed I had fallen into the hands of a quack Furthermore, he said he was surprised... that small crack showing in my armor of fear, Tim wasted no time strapping the gear on me and attaching the rope to my rappelling ring He showed me how to gradually roll the pulley and come to a complete stop during the descent He attached the safety rope to himself, too “ Okay, now just step over the railing.” “ Ha! Easy for you to say!” I’ve never, ever felt more terrified Since childhood I’ve been... following it for the three years since I had first reported a suspicious lump in my right breast Now it had grown to the size of a golf ball I know because I saw it I had insisted on watching the surgery when they removed the large, red, ugly mass of deadly tissue But because the cancer had spread through the whole breast, the surgeons told me that they needed to perform a modified radical mastectomy As soon .