Denise Lewis OBEis a retired English track and field athlete, who specialised in the heptathlon. She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics... (wikipedia)
As a nation, we have never embraced aging,
I was more than contented with the international award, but before I had recovered from that shock I was up there again.
We worked on setting goals for her, ways of addressing obstacles and strategizing for success,
You're never by yourself. The worse thing you can do is to stop fighting and not be optimistic about it.
Even when I was hospitalized twice, and when you lay in that bed thinking about what you're going through, my family and friends were the main reason I kept fighting.