Do not loose hope: Live beyond your doctor's diagnosis.

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When all had lost hope I knew that I had nothing to loose by fighting. I

survived, not because I wanted to live but because I wanted others to live a

fulfilling life. While one day I was helpless, today I fight for others. You too

can do it. You MUST do it. Life is not for accumulating, it is all about

giving.You don't need the world but THE WORLD NEEDS YOU. A transformed you. -

Jagannath.

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When I lived in

Canada, I had the privilege of hearing an inspiring talk given by a

beautiful woman, Esther. During her talk, she had to take frequent sips

from a bottle of water. Her salivary glands had been damaged

permanently from treatments she had received for cancer.

 

Her

talk was inspiring because Esther's doctor predicted that Esther had a

very short time to live. Esther and her family never gave up hope.

 

She

started an organization called " Cancermount " whose purpose it was to

give hope, support and encouragement to people with cancer and to their

families. This organization branched out all over Canada under Esther's

direction.

 

Esther was awarded a special award from the

Canadian government for the wonderful organization she created. Esther

lived many more years than the doctor had predicted, and had proven

that with prayer, love, hope, determination, and the will to live and

give, a person indeed Can Surmount.

 

 

" Counteracting A Negative Medical Prognosis "

From Kindness: Making a Difference in People's Lives: Formulas, stories, and

insights

By Zelig Pliskin

Printed with Permission of Shaar Press

 

I heard these stories from my students:

 

I was told that I had only a few days left to live. That was over forty years

ago.

 

Several doctors told me that we would be unable to have children. Fortunately

they were wrong.

 

My

doctor told me that I had only one chance in five hundred of overcoming

my illness. I think he was being generous by giving me one chance. I

used hope and laughter and spent the rest of my life encouraging others

to believe in their ability to recover just as I did.

 

Doctors are humans. And all humans make errors. Those

who feel they never make errors are guilty of an extreme error. Doctors

save lives and heal. But they are fallible. Doctors have a mandate to

heal, not to give up. Many doctors respect this mandate. Some don’t..

They can mean well and in their minds don’t want to give false hopes.

But a pessimistic prognosis can create discouragement. It is incumbent

upon doctors to qualify a negative prognosis. They do have a

responsibility to tell someone that a situation is serious and proper

medical treatment is warranted. But it is crucial for them to be aware

of instances when people did recover even though it might have appeared

to be unlikely. The greater a doctor’s knowledge of exceptions to the

standard, the greater his ability to soften a dire pronouncement.

 

Hearing

and reading about stories of people who have recovered from

life-threatening illnesses will supply you with ammunition to fight

depressing medical statements. We need to live in reality. But it is a

major error to prematurely feel that all hope is lost when there is a

valid basis for that hope.

 

Medical

miracles do happen. People who were not given a chance for recovery

have recovered. Even those who do not fully recover often live many

more fruitful years than an original prognosis predicted.

 

Recovery

and healing can happen with serious medical conditions. All the more so

with psychological and psychiatric disorders. Being told, " Your problem

is deep-seated and you’ll never live a happy life, " can create a

self-fulfilling prophecy that can greatly hinder someone’s ability to

regain emotional health. Give hope and encouragement when someone has

been told, " Nothing can be done. "

 

" Nothing can be done, " really

means, " At the present with my limited knowledge and abilities I don’t

know what I can do to help. " It doesn’t mean that no one else can help.

And it doesn’t mean that this very person won’t be able to help in the

future. And it doesn’t mean that there won’t be spontaneous remission.

 

A helpful sentence is, " You never know. "

 

• " You never know. Perhaps the situation is better than you think. "

• " You never know. You might recover and heal. "

• " You never know all the good you can still experience. "

• " You never know how spiritually elevated you can become by coping with this

situation. "

 

 

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