Walking on Pins and Needles
A Memoir of Chronic Resilience in the Face of Multiple Sclerosis
by Arlene K. Faulk
Pub Date 22 Feb 2022
Greenleaf Book Group, River Grove Books
Biographies & Memoirs
I’ve graciously been granted a copy of Walking On Pins and Needles, A Memoir of Chronic Resilience through Greenleaf Book Group:
As a Senior in High-School Arlene Faulk was voted most likely to succeed, as a senior in high school with a bright future ahead, you set challenging goals and move forward to fulfill expectations. But at the age of twenty two in the middle of the busiest shopping day of the year, Arlene loses all feeling in her body from the waist down. Her mobility returns but she’s given no diagnosis, and one question pervades her thoughts: What is happening to my body? It would be years later when she gets her answer, Multiple Sclerosis.
Arlene Faulk is an accomplished business women storyteller, and Tai Chi instructor—knew, multiple sclerosis wasn’t going to get in her way. She was and is determined to live her life to the fullest..
Walking on Pins and Needles is one women’s moving memoir on how for years she struggles to understand and conceal her debilitating symptoms as she ascends the corporate ladder in a major airline comes a story of perseverance, rediscovery, and hope in light of multiple sclerosis. As she jumps into the unknown, Faulk finds comfort and healing through Chinese medicine and Tai Chi. Her inspiring story demonstrates how a chronic and debilitating health condition lacks the power to control our lives and stop us from moving in the direction of possibility.
I give Walking on Pins and Needles five out of five stars.
A definite recommend read in my opinion.
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