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Frannie Rose, author of Fixing Frannie, is a Patient-Advocate, Inspirational Speaker and Writer on issues relating to keeping your spirit alive when dealing with chronic illness, and the medical system today.
A message from Frannie:
While being bedridden for 12 years, I contemplated many things. I thought about life, and I thought a lot about death. I thought about the things I was losing and the things I wanted to gain. I spent more of my life thinking than ever before. But there were two important things I learned about most: perseverance and determination.
I wanted more than anything to get out of my bed and become a part of the world again. I wanted life. I wanted to really live. I wanted to learn and to produce and to help others.
It was through my sure will and determination that I was able to find the doctors who changed my life. It was through sure will and determination that we were able to find the medications to treat my illness that brought me back into this world again. Yes, I have a chronic illness and yes, my life will never, ever be the same. I will not be able to do as many things, but it can be sweet and it can be better. Because I, in fact, have the power within me to change it into becoming more of what I wish it to be.
The power within me changed with two words: attitude and drive. These are the secrets of determination. And with attitude and drive one can always change the way the world appears to them. Sometimes we cannot change the world, but we can change the way the world appears to us.
If we cannot change what is happening inside our bodies, we can still change the way we use our minds. We can grow instead of outward, inward. We can become better inside ourselves, than we ever thought we could be. It's a simple way of thinking, instead of doing. Instead of running around outside ourselves, run around on the inside.
Learn all that you can about your chronic illness. Find the best healers that you can. Use your determination and drive in a way that you never give up. The right doctors are out there. You simply have to tread down your path without stopping, until you reach your goal of finding them.
I am here to tell you that this is possible. It is possible to change your attitude from one of pain and sadness to one of determination, using the power of your drive.
Take mental action, move forward, use your flip side thinking, and remember the answers are out there if you don't give up. Cures for illnesses are being found everyday, and if not a cure, then a treatment. Find a doctor who cares about who you are, and knows you are worth saving.
With peace in your mind, begin your inner journey. Learn. Learn. Learn. Read about how others have done it. Read philosophy and spirituality. Take out your books on religion and books on attitude. Allow them to inspire you. Write in your journal about the things you have learned every single day. Come to a new way of thinking about things you only took for granted before. Go outside and really look at a flower, hear the love in your spouse's voice instead of listening to the words, follow a new and more beautiful melody.
I hope that you might try some of these things and live life truly and deeply for the very first time. Most of us were so busy before, we didn't stop to smell the roses. If you try to expand yourself inside, you will have taken the first step toward your inner journey and that my friends, will forever change your life.
Determination = attitude + drive. Think about it.
Let us walk down this healing road together.
With prayers for love and world peace,
Frannie
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