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What do you do when your own body turns against you and you find yourself battling a true homegrown terrorist? When your cells and tissue are changing into things that can kill you and your life is in the hands of people you’ve never met before What do you do to survive your own body? You turn to something else inside you like your spirit your Faith your inner strength Things that may have been silent in the past but now raise their voices to comfort and guide you through the darkness and pain And things outside yourself like strangers battling their own bodies who don’t stay strangers very long People who promise to pray for you friends and family who cook and clean for you The beauty of a sunset that reminds you that you’re not alone And the innocent embrace of a child that gives more comfort than any medicine ever could This is what I did when my body turned against me And I realized that I am more than my physical threats and limitations I am spiritual I am Faith-full and I am grateful to live more to love more and to be more