27 Steps to Freedom
What Learning to Walk Again Taught me About Success in Business & Life
In late 1999 I contracted an e-coli infection that ate away portions of my spine (along with damaging other internal organs including my brain). I spent many months in hospital, then more in a body cast (from my neck to my knees) as the bones were fused back together. When I was finally released from hospital, I was still in the body cast and walking with a cane.
My parents lived in a home with a driveway that had a lovely big tree at the end of it. My goal was to be able to walk right to the end of that driveway and get to the tree.
It took me many tries (and many days) to get to the end of that driveway, but when I did I knew I was on the path to freedom. I knew that nothing could hold me back after that day!
It was 27 steps to the end of the driveway, and the more I thought about it I realized that each step represented something I had learned during my journey to healing.
I now feel strong enough emotionally to go back in time, and relive the journey and share the lessons of those 27 Steps.
Wendy McClelland
27 Steps to Freedom - My Personal Story of Rebuilding my Life