Eleven-year-old Angela was stricken with a debilitating disease involving her nervous system.
She was unable to walk and her movement was restricted in other ways as well.
The doctors did not hold out much hope of her ever recovering from this illness.
They predicted she’d spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair.
They said that few, if any, were able to come back to normal after contracting this disease.
The little girl was undaunted.
There, lying in her hospital bed, she would vow to anyone who’d listen that she was definitely going to be walking again someday.
She was transferred to a specialized rehabilitation hospital in the San Francisco Bay area.
Whatever therapies could be applied to her case were used.
The therapists were charmed by her undefeatable spirit.
They taught her
If it would do nothing else, it would at least give her hope and something positive to do in the long waking hours in bed.
Angela would work as hard as possible in physical therapy, in whirlpools and in exercise sessions.
But she worked just as hard lying there faithfully doing her imaging, visualizing herself moving, moving, moving!
One day, as she was using all her might to imagine her legs moving again, it seemed as though one miracle had happened:
The bed moved! She screamed out, “Look what I’m doing! Look! Look! I can do it! I moved, I moved!”
Of course, at this very moment everyone else in the hospital was screaming, too, and running for cover.
People were screaming, equipment was falling and glass was breaking.
You see, it was the recent San Francisco earthquake.
But don’t tell that to Angela.
She’s convinced that she did it.
And now only a few years later, she’s back in school.
You see, anyone who can shake the earth between San Francisco and Oakland can conquer a piddling little disease, can’t they?
相关单词：debilitating
debilitating解释：a.使衰弱的
debilitating例句：
The debilitating disease made him too weak to work. 这个令他衰弱的病，使他弱到没有办法工作。
You may soon leave one debilitating condition or relationship forever. 你即将永远地和这段霉运说拜拜了。
相关单词：vow
vow解释：n.誓(言)，誓约；v.起誓，立誓
vow例句：
My parents are under a vow to go to church every Sunday.我父母许愿，每星期日都去做礼拜。
I am under a vow to drink no wine.我已立誓戒酒。
相关单词：specialized
specialized解释：adj.专门的，专业化的
specialized例句：
There are many specialized agencies in the United Nations.联合国有许多专门机构。
These tools are very specialized.这些是专用工具。
相关单词：rehabilitation
rehabilitation解释：n.康复，悔过自新，修复，复兴，复职，复位
rehabilitation例句：
He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。
相关单词：applied
applied解释：adj.应用的；v.应用，适用
applied例句：
She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。
相关单词：visualizing
visualizing解释：肉眼观察
visualizing例句：
Nevertheless, the Bohr model is still useful for visualizing the structure of an atom. 然而，玻尔模型仍有利于使原子结构形象化。
Try to strengthen this energy field by visualizing the ball growing stronger. 通过想象能量球变得更强壮设法加强这能量场。
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