Life is not scripted, you can wake up one day and your life would just change dramatically and at that point, you have to make the decision to keep pushing. When life gives us lemons, just remember to make lemonades out of it, yes it’s easier said than done... but decide NEVER TO GIVE UP ON YOURSELF NO MATTER WHAT!!! Happy New Week Guys!!!!show more

Her partner still kept on taking pictures of her telling her how beautiful she looked with her golden prosthetics. This encouraged her to get back to modeling, started her modeling career from scratch chasing for gigs as there were no models with prosthetic limbs walking the walk way but she never gave up. She became accepted in the modeling industry as “The Girl With The Golden Legs”.

She didn’t like the stiff, medical looking prosthetics that were available and wanted her artificial legs to look like a jewelry. She always loved gold and decided to go for a golden prosthetic legs. Meanwhile she was still in pains as her left leg was severely damaged and needed weekly care and surgeries. She was approaching 30 and finally decided to have her left leg amputated and according to her, was the best decision for her future.

Three months later she was discharged from the hospital on a wheel chair. She was depressed and contemplated committing suicide as she didn’t know what to do with her life anymore. She spent 8 months on a wheel chair before deciding to get a prosthetics when it became obvious that it was the only way she could be self dependent.

She begged her mum not to allow the doctors amputate her but that was the only way to save her leg and stop the gangrene from spreading. A 24yr old model and athlete without her legs seemed like the end of the world for Lauren. Her mum kissed her right leg in tears as she was wheeled away to the theatre where she had a below the knee amputation of the right leg.

She was pumped with fluid and weighed 200 pounds, her hair was so tangled and had to be shaved off and her legs were black with gangrene. Gangrene is a serious condition where loss of blood supply causes body tissue or part to die. She woke up to overhear her mum talking about her having an above the knee amputation on her right leg and couldn’t believe it.

The Tampon came back positive for TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME (TSS) TSS is a rare but life threatening condition caused by an infection. It can happen when using a menstrual cup or tampon or from an infected wound. (TSS Thread later). Lauren was put in a medically induced coma and she woke up 11 days later completely transformed.

She was rushed to St. John’s hospital where she suffered 2 heart attacks, had fever of 47 degrees, kidneys and her organs were all failing. The doctors had no clue of what was happening to her and she was given a 1% chance of survival. As they were still investigating why a seemingly healthy 24yr old model’s organ was shutting down, they found the tampon she had on, sent it to the lab and that was where the cause was found.

24yr old model, Lauren Wasser’s life changed in October 2012. It was a normal day in her life, she was on her period when she started having flu like symptoms, feeling nauseous with severe headaches. She stripped off and lay down in her apartment and that was the last thing she could remember. The police finds her facedown in her apartment and she was literally 10 minutes from death as she was rushed to the hospital.

“LAUREN WASSER” (A Tampon ‘Ruined’ Her Life.) She was born to two modeling parents, Pamela Cook and Robert Wasserburger and grew up in the midst of models. She secured her first modeling gig as a 2 months old baby alongside her mother in Italian vogue. She had the world at her fingertips but all these changed when a normal day in her life turned to her worst nightmare. #OdogwuTales

Ecclesiastes 9 will humble you "So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God’s hands, but no one knows whether love or hate awaits them. 2 All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad.

Very encouraging message to all and sundry. Life is not scripted, no matter who u are.

Her decision to make the best of the situation is truly inspiring. Instead of wallowing in self-pity, she got up and turned her 'misfortune' into some swag. I doff my hat!

Thank you for this reminder! Life is never scripted

When you are rich your weakness is limited. A poor person will hardly survive this. The first thing I learn from this story is "MAKE IT IN LIFE". Then others follow.

Life happens they say..... But the I WILL POWER is the only thing that keeps you stable, going and pushing.

Very Inspiring story Odogwu takes 💯 The highlight of the story:As long as you're alive,Never give Up 💯

Very inspiring. Our ernest prayer should be that life should happen to us in a more pleasant way.

Thank you. This very inspiring and encouraging. Thanks for sharing

Thank you Doc for sharing. I will never give up on myself no matter what. God bless her for not giving up. I'm touched and inspired as well.

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Thank you so much for this inspiring words of encouragement doctor, indeed life can never be scripted.

So inspiring!. It can happen when using a menstrual cup or tampon 😳. Waiting for the thread

This is inspiring inspiring

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Wow

Oh dear This is life inspiring 👏

Powerful read...The girl with the Golden Leg

so touching

Wow! Thanks for sharing.

I learnt a lot from this...God will give us the grace to remain strong in our pursuit

Thank you 🙏

Thanks for sharing

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Thanks for sharing Doctor. This is inspiring

All I can say is, if you must progress in life, then you must be deliberate about it.

Beautiful and inspiring. Thanks for sharing this.

Amazing and so inspiring 😍😍

This is an inspiring and a Tampon message, so i wonder why we're taking only the inspiration part. All the same a nice message, well done Doc.

Thank you Doc

Really inspiring! Life happens to everyone, it's our response to it that matters.

thank you