What happened
What if something completely took away your life's work?
Not slowed it down. Took it. Left you searching for a new reason to get up in the morning. What would you do — give up, or retire early?
Mark Wade had been a full-time professional ventriloquist for four decades when essential tremor — a genetic disorder — began making his hands and other extremities shake uncontrollably. For a man whose living runs entirely through his hands, that is not an inconvenience. It is the end of the career.
He refused to accept that it was. He went looking for a solution and found one: deep brain stimulation — a procedure in which electrodes are implanted in the brain and connected to a generator. It worked. The hospital filmed the procedure so that other patients could see what was possible for them.
And because Mark is Mark, the other half of the solution was to find the funny in it. He laughed the problem down to a size he could carry.
Perseverance is the key. It was the answer for Mark — and it's the answer for your people too.
