Who doesn’t love a good story? A story that speaks to us. A story that spins a negative into a positive.
When I listen to a person tell a story, I react emotionally—not logically.
For me, the story itself could be ridiculous, but if the delivery is good, I’ll bite. I’ll hang in there until the punchline is delivered.
If you are an individual living with dystonia, consider reading the poignant story and funny voice of a full-time nurse who works the night shift in an intensive care unit.
How does she do it? Good question.
From the beginning, she weaves a tale riddled with the irony of her health crisis—a diagnosis for “a disease that affected my head but was not ‘in my head.'”
A 12+ hour shift. The paperwork. The colleague dynamics. The medical emergencies and mysteries. The stress. The physical demands of the job. And she lives in New York City and battles the commute and traffic? She does it all!
The punchline?
It’s all in her attitude—her wondrously positive attitude.
Simple as that.
In her story, she shares how she adapted to a life which requires persistence and how she copes with her dystonia symptoms while earning a living for herself in a career she loves.
A series of events of one woman serving the health and medical needs of others, as she suffers through her own debilitating symptoms and trying her damnedest to hide her pain, twitching, and tremors from her own patients. Sounds like a good story to me.
Be inspired!
