Stephanie Shaia was diagnosed with Malignant Multiple Sclerosis at the tender age of 16. She literally went from playing softball every day to being paralyzed for hours at a time, too weak to move. And then, when it seemed things couldn’t get much worse her muscles would spasm violently, causing grand mal seizure-like convulsions. Softball had no longer ceased to exist. In fact, her doctor had told her, “You will never again walk unassisted.”
Yet, she has managed to overcome this disease and end up on her feet, unassisted. Twice.
Shaia, currently enrolled in the Pre-Physical Therapy Fellow program at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., fought back against MS with a strict exercise regime and a naturopathic healing approach. Her recovery was staggering, and by 2009 she had enrolled in college on schedule with her graduating class. She was fine for the first couple years of college, too, blending in with the student population like an average student. After returning from a study abroad trip to London in 2011, however, she relapsed and was unable to move all over again.
The relapse forced her to drop out of school and move home to Kentucky with her parents. Soon, she had adopted forearm crutches. Her body was breaking down again. Shaia said her doctors offered little assistance or answers. “My neurologist shrugged his shoulders, told me I would never walk again and that he had no idea what was wrong.”
Again, Shaia fought back through exercise, chiropractic care, massage and diet. And since November of 2012, she has been able to walk unassisted and is running up to two miles a day. Shaia is brave, and a fighter. And she has taken, in my opinion, an honorable route in regards to finding good health, especially considering the original feedback from her physician.
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