title: This Is Not My Story: Healing through Acceptance, Action, and Ascension
author: Lorraine C. Lordi
description: Lorraine Lordi lives in New Hampshire and has been writing and/or teaching writing for the past twenty-five years. She has co-authored several college texts on literature and writing, has published more than 1,000 columns for her local paper, and has published six books on subjects ranging from breast cancer and hospice to a collective of her most popular columns. While writing and teaching provide her with enormous joy and satisfaction, her family is her greatest joy.
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  ![By Vow and Royal Bloodshed by M.C.A. Hogarth](../Images/amelie-
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  ### ![Chapter 1](../Images/book2-chap1.png)
  
  
  
  
  
  For the first twenty-six years of my life I had been a cripple, forever
  battling nausea, weakness, seizures, and constant pain, a war that consumed my
  every waking moment and all the moments it contrived to steal from my sleep.
  For twenty-six years, I had been a prisoner in my own body, facing a life of
  increasing disability, losing friends, a chance at love, and the meager
  pleasures of school and learning. For twenty-six years I had suffered and
  believed it to be my lot for the remainder of my miserable life.
  
  
  
  
  
  In one day, a sorcerer had undone it all and given me a supple, beautiful,
  _working_ body, and all I co