This is an article written by Karen Lynn from http://www.whispersofhope.org
This article was originally posted at http://www.whispersofhope.org/blog/uncategorized/todays-journey
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
It is now 5 p.m. and I just came home from the doctors with my husband. I also see that it has been 5 days since I last wrote anything on my blog. Oh my… but to be honest, It was all I could do to stay focused and together the last three days. I have had an emotionally trying and draining week, trying to keep it together emotionally. I had my moments, had a good cry, of which I believe brings a good release to the heart of pent up feelings and emotions. It does a heart really good:>) Along with writing your feelings out and tearing them up, burning them and releasing them.
It helps to move through a situation at hand, however, sometimes if you can’t, if one is willing, like I have been all my life, it may take years, and years, and years in a particular area in order to have a break through or healing. Sometimes I think my issue will never end, or that I won’t be healed! It is a wound that keeps coming back time and time again. No matter how deep I dig to release this from my being, it’s still there! It haunts me like a ghost! And then, suddenly, I am lead to someone eles or lead towards a whole new direction and action in my life to take. All I find I need to have is an open mind:>))))))))))) and a willingness that never quits!!!!!
One of the on-going challenges I’ve been experiencing has physically gone on for the last 35 years. I don’t like to talk about this much, because I’ve worked on it for so long-. I am hear to tell you that I am still alive and ticking and getting to the root cause. I have learned to cope and accept my allergies to all the different food I have. I will continue on, because I must! I will seek more, and research more, and reach out to those Doctors who I think might be able to help further! You see, in the last 5 years my body has been reacting violently to foods and not getting the nutrient to what I eat.
I have been working with the best Naturopathic Doctor’s around. And Monday, I will be going to see a new Homeopathic Doctor. These challenges have been far more heart wrenching than my Cerebral Palsy and Learning Disability. When I begin to think about this for a minute, it is very painful, it is more painful, and up there emotionally with fighting for my life and my education with my Civil Rights Case , or trying to prove to the world that I am a capable person in doing anything I put my mind towards doing!
But I will survive and get through this just like everything else! I will! I really will!
Now that I have spilled my guts…I will close; as I must prepare my dinner.
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Karen Lynn’s Biography
Karen Lynn is a native Californian. She was born perfectly normal, and paralyzed at 5 months old due to a DPT shot. This shot put her in a coma, leaving her severely disabled, however, miraculously, she made an almost complete recovery. This shot, left her with; left-side hemiplegia, and dyslexia, Cerebral Palsy. Despite all odds, Karen went forth to triumph. She prevailed with her self-determined attitude. Karen made tremendous progress, and has left a mark on this world.
Karen not only learned to dance, but she soared. She was the first physically challenged person to search out, take on the system, and win the first Civil Rights Case in California. She gained an Associate of Arts degree in English, and she won second prize in the Kaleidoscope Literary Art Magazine international prose fiction art awards of 1983. Moreover, in 2006, this story, The Broken Hoof, was published by Publish America. She became a dance teacher in 1976, and has been mentoring special needs individuals since then. Karen has been on an un-ending journey to help others with disabilities. She has sat on the Executive Board of Protection and Advocacy Inc, and also the Clients Services Committee at Harbor Regional Center in Torrance, CA. Karen not only has her own website at:www.whispersofhope.org, but is a motivational speaker. She is a very caring, person, and is passionate about the work she does to help others.
buy Karen Lynn’s book at: barnesandnoble.com - The Broken Hoof
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visit her site at: http://www.whispersofhope.org
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