WALK THE DISTANCE TO GREATNESS: STRENGTH, PURPOSE & TRANSFORMATION || DR JAMES E DIXON ||EPISODE 082

James E. Dixon· Guest0:00

I was, uh, born in a small town called Anderson, Indiana. The people that were around me were unaware of what to do with a child with disability. I'm talking about mom, dad, relatives. No one in my family, no one in my bloodline, mother, father's side had ever had my disability. Being born with something where one leg is shorter than the other, and the right side of me began to die at birth. They began doing surgeries from the time I was three months of age until I was 11. It wasn't until I was 11, that's every six months I had a surgery, until they had no other choice but to send me to Chicago to see if they'd get a second opinion. And when I got there, they said, "The only thing we can do is amputate his right leg and see if that works." Well, there's two things that happened. There, there are two images that I have, like a coin. Here's my currency. One side of me, I have my grandmother filling my head with, "You're Superman," from the time I was born, always telling me that. There's all my childhood pictures. There's a Superman symbol, Superman this, that, and the other. My prosthetic has Superman on it here. And then not only does it have it, but it also has a Bible verse, Philippians 4:13. It's, "I can do all things." That's going into my head. Now, on the other side, I have the tail side, that's the body. And I have a body of work telling me that, "You can't do this. You won't do this." But my grandmother's filling my head with, "You don't have a crip- you're not crippled, you have kryptonite. The moment you overcome that thing, you'll become everything."

Speaker 2· Host1:27

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