Essay - Physical Therapist Tribute to Physical Therapist Beauty Comes in Many...

Physical Therapist

Tribute to Physical *****

Beauty comes in many different forms. I won't pretend to be an expert on beauty, but I can tell you *****e thing: it sure seemed like there was a lot less of it after my surgery. It ********** just not being able ***** walk without crutches, although that was a big p*****rt. It was the feeling of staying still while the rest of the world was still moving. Like a cruise ship casualty, I was watching my entire world float away.

***** process of rehabilitation seemed hopeless at first. My physical *****rapists, experts though they may have been, did nothing for me. So***** were detached and un***** to connect; others ***** soft, ***** unsuited to the challenge of pushing beyond strength into th***** peculiar region in which humans experience growth.

And that's why Pam was so remarkable. I had long since given up my prospects ***** full recovery, and I felt jaded and bitter. At first, I found it surprising that it was at this moment that I found beauty; ***** Charlie Chaplin said that "beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling s*****dness that we discern in nature ***** all things" (Quotations). So perhaps it was appropriate that then, at ***** lo*****st point, I found my beauty—and my miracle.

I remember telling her my goal ***** learning to ***** w*****hout *****. She answered that I might not get t*****e, but that it all depends on how hard ***** worked. Those words were magical. Not *****ly did they rela***** honesty, a virtue which physical therapists have all but forgotten, but also empowerment.

For two months, ***** pushed me to my limit, encouraged ***** when I was down, and—literally and figuratively—got me back on my feet. And now, standing here, all I can say is: Pam, you're beautiful.

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***** by Topic." Quoteland. 5 Dec. 2006