To God: Who never tires of listening to my drama. Thank You.
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Don't take it personally, but do take it seriously. When you hear constructive criticism, take it. May God surround you with good people who mean well, and aren't afraid to help you improve. May you be blessed to accept the good intentions of those who
care about you.
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MEDICAL MIRACLE
Doug Lindsay was 21 and starting his senior year at Rockhurst University, a Jesuit college in Kansas City, Missouri, when his world imploded.
After his first day of classes, the biology major collapsed at home on the dining room table, the room spinning around him.
It was 1999. The symptoms soon became intense and untreatable. His heart would race, he felt weak and he frequently got dizzy. Lindsay could walk only about 50 feet at a time and couldn't stand for more than a few minutes.
"Even lying on the floor didn't feel like it was low enough," he said.
The former high school track athlete had dreamed of becoming a biochemistry professor or maybe a writer for "The Simpsons."
Instead, he would spend the next 11 years mostly confined to a hospital bed in his living room in St. Louis, hamstrung by a mysterious ailment.
Doctors were baffled. Treatments didn't help. And Lindsay eventually realized that if he wanted his life back, he would have to do it himself.
Today Lindsay tells his remarkable story to audiences around the country, including at a TEDx event in St. Louis.
His journey since has amazed medical professionals.
"He did something extraordinary," said John Novack, spokesman for Inspire, a healthcare social network for rare and chronic-disease patients. When people hear Lindsay's story, Novack said, they often say, "I can do something similar for my kid."
HIS MOTHER WAS A LIVING PROPHECY.
Whatever was wrong with him ran in the family.
By the time Lindsay was 18 months old, his mother was so weak she could no longer pick him up.
By the time he was 4 she could no longer walk. She did manage to pick him up one more time that year, when he was choking on a jawbreaker. She saved his life.
Otherwise, she was too frail...READ MORE
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MARRIAGE IN SHAMBLES
Please pray for my daughter’s healing. She is depressed and is suffering emotionally and physically. Her marriage is in shambles. Her in laws are interfering with her marriage. Her young daughter is caught in the middle of the problems between her parents.
- anonymous
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