A Californian 5-Year-Old Shows A Cheerful Heart Is Good Medicine
By Okechukwu Okugo
It is usually the case with most people, when things go awry, they get mad at situations or even with people around. But the lesson taught by the cheer, and courage of this 5-year-old girl, shows everyone has the power to control their emotions and maintain their cool, no matter how bad the situation.
Eden Hoelscher of Palos Verdes Peninsula in California, was born full of agility and great strength, according to her mother, who told ABC news:
"She just came out of the womb with so much energy...She's done gymnastics, ballet, got up on a scooter, gets in the pool and swims, go for hikes all the time...She loves being active. She's just unstoppable."
On December, 2015, this little girl full of life, suddenly became paralyzed from waist down, after doing a simple backbend in her living room. So bad that it affected her body's function to regulate its own temperature, and left her bowels and bladder not functioning anymore, according to reports.
Her doctors couldn't even explain fully how such a devastation can be caused by a mere backbend, exercise, stating it as a case of rare occurrence.
Yet as bad as it may seem, this little girl tenaciously, has shown by her actions that even though conditions may change her physical nature, but nothing whatsoever can break her spirit or even take her smile away.
On a wheelchair, she went back to school two months after she was admitted to the ICU, and only one week after being discharged from the hospital, PEOPLE, reported.
And on this wheelchair, she continues to bubble forth with full zest and life. Making Kylee Hoelscher, her mother, confirm to ABC News, that:
"She's still her same laughing, giggly, silly self. She wins over the heart of everyone she knows. It's amazing that her spirit has completely gone unchanged. The doctor said that's one of the things she has going for her. In physical therapy she won't cry or get mad, she'll just try as hard as she can."
Yes, as true as it is that no one has control of what life throws at them, but everyone has the ability to control their attitude and disposition towards every situation no matter how bad. The way Eden has been rightly doing.
And she continues to show a cheerful heart is good medicine.
We at Heartmenders Magazine, are sure, maintaining this disposition, Eden Hoelscher, shall surely recover from this paralysis.
Please, we kindly plead that you visit the "GoFundMe" page, created by a friend of the Hoelscher's family, to help cover Eden's medical needs not covered by insurance, and show the usual "American generosity," no matter how small to help put a smile on the face of this exceptionally courageous little miss.
(Images: Photo of 5-year-old Eden Hoelscher. Source: ABC NEWS.)
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