Never give up

For Someone I know

I know I haven't written in a while and even I stop myself to contact you. I'm not sure why. Several times I saw your number on my contact list,wanna touched on the call button but I ended and then sat staring at the screen while my mind goes blank and uncertain. Is it possible to have our last yesterday's moment?

I suppose the important thing is I'm here now. I was inspired by a girl who have blogged about her life and being suffered of a debilitating neurological disease called Guillain Barre Syndrome who is going through a rough moment for almost 14 years.God bless her. This is such a terrifying experience that we won't even attempt to put it in words if we had to faced her situation.

Reading her blog made me cry harder than I have in a long time as I relived my own experience, remembering just how scared he was, and fearful of the unknown. She had resigned herself to death at one point. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy, and here is another young boy I know facing the same thing. It just doesn't seem fair but god have plan everything. This is his fate and I hope he will keep on fighting and never give up.

But, as we all know too well, all we can do is fight back. I hope that I am able to help the precious young boy with my words. I know that it's a very difficult thing to come back from, and it's very easy to just give in and say "fine, you win". There is lots of pain, and lots of what seems like failure. Every day is a new challenge, and there is so much that goes into the process of recovery after your entire body has been shut down that the mind boggles at where to start first. You lose balance, coordination, reflexes, sensation, motor skills.. the list is so long and depressing and won't even attempt to finish. For anyone that has never experienced trying to come back from that, there is no way to even begin to imagine the difficulty. Had I known back then what I know now, I would have never let him give up for one second.

Never give up young boy. That is all I can offer to anyone who finds themselves at the raw end of this deal. Just never give up. Fight, and fight hard. Imagine you are training for something, like climbing Mount Everest, or whatever it takes to give you that inspiration and fight within you that won't allow you to give in. Don't let this horrible disease win. Just don't.

The story about this little girl blog is she is still struggle daily with the fight, and it has been almost 14 years. But, in his case, I truly believe he wouldn't still be in this shape had never given up in the first place. Never let the disease defeat you boy for a time, and put yourself that much farther behind. Now, instead of working from the ground up, you've been backtracking. Nevertheless, you'll getting better.

The body is an amazing machine, and it wants to work properly. If you give it something it needs to do, it will figure out a way to do it, against all odds.

This post is for you,young boy. You brought me out of hiding and inspired me to write, and I look forward to hearing more from you about your progress.