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The “Queen is dead,” was the report rumored to be circulating around my record company. A few weeks before, I had fallen on stage, jumped back up, and continued my show, including the rigorous choreography. I went out to breakfast after the show, gone home and off to bed. The next morning I felt refreshed. But then I reached for the phone to call my boyfriend and could not turn completely over. I tried to turn over again and felt an excruciating pain that hit me in my back and ran down my left leg into my foot.I tried to move again, but I realized I couldn’t. I thought, “Oh my God! What has happened to me?” In agony and bewilderment, I managed to reach the telephone on the back of the bed. The next thing I remember was being in the hospital in traction

I opened my eyes and there stood my boyfriend, clearly shaken to the core. “What happened”, I said. “Why am I here”? Linwood replied, “You called me, you were screaming. I couldn’t understand what you were saying. I couldn’t calm you down, so I hung up the phone and rushed over. You were still screaming when I got there. I called an ambulance.

They came and the paramedics gave you something for pain. It made you almost like delirious and calmed you down. I came with them into the elevator and to the hospital in the ambulance, and here we are.”The doctors came in just then. They said I was paralyzed from the waist down, probably because the fall I’d taken caused a slipped disc that rested on the spinal chord. Thorough examinations revealed a ruptured disc that had to be operated on.

After four months in the hospital I was released. Three months of physical therapy fraught with uncertainty about my career and ability to become financially stable again, ended with me approaching despair.

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article courtesy of Joy105.com

I Will Survive! The Singer Shares How God Sent The Song!  was originally published on praisecleveland.com

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