When nothing is impossible, how can anything be incurable ?
By Jamuna Rangachari The major issue with an ailment like multiple sclerosis is the lack of hope, the lack of a direction in life. Most of all, the fact it is deemed ‘incurable’ makes everyone even more depressed.
In 2000, Inder Singh (name changed) had difficulty taking more than three steps at a time, and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The neurologist told him there was no cure for this ailment, and he would have to learn to live with it. At 38, the bleak prospect plunged him into depression. But the fighter that he was, he soon shook himself off the debility, and decided instead to focus on solutions. He meditated, affirmed, did exercises and tried his best to combat it on all fronts. He also kept making plans to live a complete life. Reading to him was all about finding solutions, not tried to see what all problems the ailment could cause. Those who know about multiple sclerosis do know it often makes the vision weak and sometimes results in what is known as ‘double vision’. Determined to be able to continue reading, he learnt Braille and also downloaded the software, Jaws, that reads material from the computer to the blind. He even went to the National Association of the Blind, taught them Jaws and began understanding their world. Leading a purposeful life and reaching out to his fellow sufferers now became his goal. He began to counsel patients of MS to lead a normal life and encourage them to take part in all the activities they liked, instead of being stuck in a web of self-pity. Till today, Inder spends every Sunday with a MS patient, counselling them and their caregivers. Often, he uses the story of his inspiration, Helen Keller, to make them understand there are problems greater than theirs. Every Saturday, he also volunteers with ‘Teach for India (TFI)’, a nationwide movement of teaching the underprivileged as he does not wish to only focus on MS. A miracle In 2006, he took another MRI test and it reported that he did not have any lesions! All the reading that he has done shows that if there is no attack for seven years, multiple sclerosis has vanished from his life. At that time, Dr Alasdair Coles (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, UK) was on a visit to India in 2006 as an invitee of MSSI, Mumbai, and even he was absolutely amazed at the curing of this so-called incurable ailment. Coming full circle Inder continues to explore new solutions and even guides others to do so. For instance, he has now started having green tea regularly as he read about another MS patient who had improved dramatically due to antioxidants in green tea. Inder is proof that if we can approach each illness, no matter how severe, with the intention of healing from it regardless of its verdict, we indeed can! And in the process our own life path will unfold gracefully. Extract from https://lifepositive.com/04/2014/true-grit/
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