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Beat The 90% Odds I Was Given.
Submitted by: joey antonuccio
phoenix30 year old male, active, loves working out and staying healthy.
My mother bought me the book The Secret. Years before that my grandma gave me the DVD and lectured me about The Secret but at the time I didn’t really care. So my story was two years ago.
I was in the process of working with the Phoenix Fire Department and got injured. I was injured so bad I was transferred to a different hospital. My “talus” ankle bone was broken in half and my tibia busted as well. When I awoke from my surgery I woke up with an external fixator on with rods in my leg holding my ankle together. The doctor said I’d have a 90% chance of losing my ankle bone due to it being dislocated and broken for 12 plus hours and getting a bone graft due to Avascular Necrosis “AVN” and not getting the blood supply as needed. To add to that, I could not feel my foot due to nerve damage. I told the doc at my bedside ” I’ll make that 10%!!!!!
My orders were for me to be discharged in a couple of days and come back in two weeks to put screws and a plate to fix what was broken. I was bedridden and on drugs at that point. Those two weeks were painful and difficult times and I hated my wife taking care of me. I did the second surgery and was still given the same odds.
During my process of growth, mentally and physically, I remained positive and started writing things down. I was on the couch for four months straight, non weight bearing and popping pills. I continued to write down what I wanted out of this injury. I am healed, I will walk, I will run and be an active dad and I will beat the odds. I wrote these in my journal and kept knowing and telling myself I will come out on top!
I needed to get off these pain pills but the doc said I will need them to make it through physical therapy. So I decided to cut them cold turkey! Three days!! Three long and sleepless days!!! I pushed and pushed and got off the narcs! Now the physical therapy comes!! Wow! Talk about learning to walk again, painful!
Long story short, I was x-rayed during the course of a year and learned to walk and run again. I was discharged a year later from my injury and my doc said “I never would have thought in a million years you would be where your at and I am shocked!”.
So does The Secret work?? The answer is yes!! You see it started when the doctor gave me my odds at my bedside. I told him no, it’s not going to happen! I wanted a full recovery from the beginning and now it is like I was never injured! The metal does not bother me and my nerve damage has healed. I am grateful for my process of growth and it was the best experience I have gone though besides being a father !
Stay strong people!!!!!