Dr. Tara Narula

I might have multiple sclerosis.

So I went back to medical school thinking,

I might have multiple sclerosis.

I might not be able to walk, see, finish medical school.

It was, Mel, the absolute worst, most scary moment in my life.

Because again, I had fought really hard to get to medical school.

I was excited to be there.

And now I thought the whole trajectory of my life is going to go in a different direction.

And my mother sent me on a card in the mail, the serenity prayer.

And the first line is, God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.

the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.

And I read her words and she called me.

She said, you can spend every day, the next two years of your medical school worrying about what might happen and wasting that time.

Or you can imagine it might never happen.

thoughts and just put one foot in front of the other and go day after day.

And that advice really saved me.

And that is advice I give many of my patients when things happen to them is put one foot in front of the other.

This happened.

Now we're going to move forward day by day by day.

And the farther you get away from the event, the further the pain and the fear becomes.