UOG Horizons: Knowledge for Life - What is recovery?
UOG Horizons: Knowledge for Life - What is recovery?
UOG Horizons: Knowledge for Life - What is recovery?
9/22/2026
When we hear the word "recovery," most people immediately think of medical recovery - surgeries, treatments, hospitals, and healing. But recovery is so much more. Recovery has layers. Recovery has a heartbeat. Recovery has a story.
I’ve lived through two life-threatening diagnoses: one in 1998 and another in 2025. Both could have killed me. Both required immediate intervention. Both demanded the support of my family, my community, and every resource available to help me survive. And yet, the way these two diagnoses were treated could not have been more different.
