Fresh Living's David Osmond shares his personal experience with multiple sclerosis

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[@osarecool]

David is such a wonderful soul.🙏❤

[@lisatempleton987]

I have been an Osmond fan since I was age 10 in 1972. Had all of their records, went to concerts. Watched their show. Know all of their kids names, and they have been a gift to me in my life. Listening to their music helped me during stressful times as a teenager and just brought joy into my life. Being a Christian, they were a positive influence to reinforce the values that I knew were right by watching the way they lived. To this day, I still follow their lives and careers. I feel like I have known them my whole life. They are such warm, loving, Godly people. I can’t thank them enough for the happiness they have brought into my life. And David, you have such a soft, sweet heart, just like your Dad. Hang in there David. You’re right, you never know what will happen to you. I had a perfectly healthy heart, but a year ago I had a Sudden Cardiac Arrest, and my heart stopped and I fell to the floor and died. If I had been alone at home I would be with Jesus now. But, I was at my parents house and one of the sitters called 911 and the sitters talked her through CPR until the EMTS got there and the gave me an Adrenaline shot into my heart and used one of those CPR machines on me. Then I went into Cardiogenic shock. The Drs. didn’t think I was going to make it, the Lord Jesus did a miracle on me and saved my life. The put me in an induced coma for 24 hrs. I woke up in ICU with my wrists restrained to the side rails of the bed and an ET tube down my throat to my lungs. When I fully awakened and the sedative wore off, my gag reflex came back and I started choking on the tube. I started trying to yank my wrists up to pull the tube out of my throat but couldn’t. That’s when the Dr. standing next to my bed calmed me and told me he would take it out. I had fractured ribs, sternum, and pneumonia from stomach contents going into my lungs from having CPR. I was in the hospital for 8 days, very sick, in heart failure. They never know what causes a Sudden Cardiac Arrest when your heart is normal. Probably an electrical malfunction. I had a heart surgery where they put an ICD device in me. In case it ever happened to me again and I was alive, it would defibrillate my heart back into a normal rhythm. Most people that this happens to outside of a hospital setting, 90% of them die. They told me my heart would regain its strength back, which it did over 2-3 months. I was left with some very mild permanent brain damage from the lack of oxygen and the process of refusing of blood and oxygen back into my brain. But, it has gotten much better. I mostly have issues with focusing, concentration, and short term memory problems. But. I have learned how to deal with these things and write alot of stuff down, etc. Like you David, that experience was very traumatic for a period of time after. But, I have a completely new perspective on life, and appreciation to be given the gift of life. So, I try to make even more of a difference in other’s lives and value the people you love. Because, I KNOW that you can be here one minute, and literally gone the next. Most of all, make sure right NOW that you sit down with all the people that you love and tell them how much they have meant to you in your life and how much you love them. Because, you may never get the chance, and then it’s too late.

[@ernietollar407]

59 with PPMS.... I've watched 1000's of hours of video . This video is perhaps the single most inspiring video I've seen yet. My sister was singing some Osmand songs at age 3 or 4. Her name is Yvette Tollar . you can hear her singing My composition to a William Blake Poem Called (The) Sick Rose on youtube. I'm still playing sax professionally but getting to gigs is hard with MS to say the least. I've written over 100 songs. I did a procedure for MS called HSCT which involves chemotherapy plus a drug similar to the one David takes every 6 months. I'm not sure if it works. Solid love in the family is everything. We have to sell our home this year which although daunting is nothing compared to poor people living in war torn Sudan or Palestine.