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Appendix A: Where Science Meets Spirit: The Formula for MiraclesAppendix A: Where Science Meets
strain on my arms and hands to hold a book open for more than a few minutes at
a time. I was also losing sleep, because I would frequently wake up in the middle
of the night in so much pain that I could not fall back asleep.
I was diagnosed with severe tendonitis across my entire upper body, along with
several other diagnoses ending in “itis” (which is just a Latin term meaning
something that is swollen or inflamed), as well as carpal tunnel syndrome and
thoracic outlet syndrome. In fact, I had so many diagnoses of various versions of
“itis” and “syndrome” that I used to joke that I had a severe case of “itis
syndrome.”
At first, I pursued the usual conventional remedies. I spent a lot of time with
doctors and physical therapists, going through all manner of physical and
occupational therapy and taking a whole array of drugs to try to manage the pain
and inflammation. I did my homework and researched the very best doctors and
therapists who worked in the field. I believed that if I could find the most
respected and well-trained doctors, then surely they would be able to fix my
problems so I could return to my life and make my millions on the Internet boom.
The fact that you are reading this book indicates that it did not work out that way.
After a few years of splitting my time between the office and physical therapy, my
condition only continued to worsen. Because I was so devoted to the Web site
and video game companies I had founded, I trained myself to type one-handed
so I could continue working. At one point I could actually type at 30 words per
minute using only my left hand! In retrospect, this was incredibly stupid, because
in a short time I was just creating the same problems in my left arm.
Eventually my inability to work a full time schedule caught up with me. Soon I
found myself unable to work and in a legal dispute with my partners over the
companies I had crippled myself to build. I was in near-constant pain, and
doctors told me that I would never again be able to work full time with computers.
The doctors told me that my condition was hopeless; in their lingo, I was
“permanent and stationary,” which meant that I was never going to get better.
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