Dr. Tara Narula

Just a few weeks ago, I had a patient who went in for a routine surgery and

sort of been in and out.

Something went wrong in the operating room and he came out 70% blind.

And I saw him six months ago in the aftermath of that.

And he was sort of broken.

I mean, he was as anybody would be.

And then I saw him a couple of weeks ago and there was a lightness to him and he was smiling.

And I said to him, how did you get to this point?

It's been six months and you seem so different from where you were.

And he said to me two things.

He said, one was acceptance.

I couldn't change what happened and I had to learn to accept it.

And then he said, social support, his friends, those two things.

But acceptance is the beginning of your journey.

It is the opening of the door to everything else.

It is for everyone.

You know, what I'm gonna tell you is for everyone.

The resilience is something we can all use and it is so critically important because we have stress at every angle, at every point in our life.

Caregiver stress is real.

And again, it's something I see, especially in a lot of my female patients.