Then you see what could be

I wish I could guarantee that a restored or at least a healthier me, could make a positive difference in someone else's life. I wish I could guarantee that I won't get killed in a car accident or hurt someone else accidentally. I wish I could prove to myself and to you what worth there is in healing me.

I don't want to stop striving to get well. I want to do the most that I can with what I do have. I don't know how much I have and I don't want to settle for what I have. I don't want to waste time or lose time waiting to get better.

It is taking so much time just to educate myself, to catch up and match up with what medicine knows and what I have known intrinsically all along. I discover, that where I get lost and don't know, is where medicine doesn't know either.

- Holly W. Graves, 2002

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