温馨夜读II PART4 5.Did The Earth Move For You?（在线收听）

[00:01.17]5.Did The Earth Move For You?

[00:04.65]Eleven-year-old Angela was stricken with a debilitating disease involving her nervous system. 

[00:10.54]She was unable to walk and her movement was restricted in other ways as well. 

[00:15.98]The doctors did not hold out much hope of her ever recovering from this illness.

[00:21.21]They predicted she’d spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. 

[00:25.57]They said that few, if any, were able to come back to normal after contracting this disease. 

[00:31.88]The little girl was undaunted. 

[00:34.28]There, lying in her hospital bed, she would vow to anyone who’d listen that she was definitely going to be walking again someday.

[00:43.20]She was transferred to a specialized rehabilitation hospital in the San Francisco Bay area. 

[00:50.72]Whatever therapies could be applied to her case were used. 

[00:54.42]The therapists were charmed by her undefeatable spirit. 

[00:58.02]They taught her about imaging — about seeing herself walking. 

[01:02.92]If it would do nothing else, it would at least give her hope and something positive to do in the long waking hours in bed. 

[01:11.73]Angela would work as hard as possible in physical therapy, in whirlpools and in exercise sessions. 

[01:18.92]But she worked just as hard lying there faithfully doing her imaging, visualizing herself moving, moving, moving!

[01:28.18]One day, as she was using all her might to imagine her legs moving again, it seemed as though one miracle had happened: 

[01:35.69]The bed moved! She screamed out, “Look what I’m doing! Look! Look! I can do it! I moved, I moved!”

[01:43.53]Of course, at this very moment everyone else in the hospital was screaming, too, and running for cover. 

[01:50.82]People were screaming, equipment was falling and glass was breaking. 

[01:54.66]You see, it was the recent San Francisco earthquake. 

[01:59.03]But don’t tell that to Angela. 

[02:01.44]She’s convinced that she did it. 

[02:04.28]And now only a few years later, she’s back in school. 

[02:08.22]You see, anyone who can shake the earth between San Francisco and Oakland can conquer a piddling little disease, can’t they?