Janet James was 22 years old when she was diagnosed with MS - a disease that attacks the body's nerves.
22歲那年,珍妮特·詹姆士被診斷出患有多發(fā)性硬化癥——一種影響人體神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)的疾病。
She has just graduated from college and got a job at an advertising agency
她剛剛大學(xué)畢業(yè),已在廣告公司找到了一份工作,
when she began to sense that something strange was going on inside her body.
但這時,她開始感覺到自己的體內(nèi)正發(fā)生著一些奇怪的變化。
When James realized how severe her illness was, she knew she had better hurry up and live life.
當(dāng)詹姆士意識到疾病的嚴(yán)重性之后,她知道自己應(yīng)該加快腳步,活出自己的人生。
MS is the biggest crippler of young adults.
多發(fā)性硬化癥是年輕人殘疾的最大敵人。
And although she didn't have many symptoms, she knew it was just a matter of time.
盡管癥狀還不明顯,但她知道這只是時間問題。
First on her agenda was to pursue her dream of hosting a pop music programme.
她計劃的第一步就是追求自己的夢想——主持一個流行音樂節(jié)目。
She worked at a radio station for a year, always aware that her body was degenerating.
她在廣播電臺工作了一年,期間,身體的惡化一直伴隨著她。
Then her best friend moved away.
之后,她最好的朋友離開了。
And one night James began screaming, "I got to go! I got to go!"
一天晚上,詹姆士突然喊道:“我必須離開這里!我必須離開這里!”
Two weeks later, she arrived in Alaska, thousands of miles from her friends, her family and her past.
兩周以后,她來到了阿拉斯加,將千山萬水隔在了自己與朋友、與家人、與自己的過去之間。
"Everything fell into place," she recalls.
“一切的一切都已安置妥當(dāng)。”她回憶道。
A 23-year-old girl with an incurable disease can fly to Alaska and everything can work out.
一個罹患不治之癥的23歲女孩能夠獨自飛到阿拉斯加,那么任何事情對她來說都不算難事。
The MS attacks came and went.
多發(fā)性硬化癥時不時地侵?jǐn)_著詹姆士。
And most of the time they hardly slowed her down.
大多數(shù)時候,它們都無法阻擋她前行的腳步。
James hiked, fished, learnt to sail and experimented with hot air ballooning.
詹姆士不但遠足、釣魚,還學(xué)會了航海、嘗試了熱氣球飛行。
"I lived for adventure," she says.
“我為冒險而活,”她說。
"Nobody ever had a better time or did more exotic strange things than I did in an 8-year period."
“沒有人像我一樣在八年時間里過得如此快樂、獲得了如此多奇妙的體驗。”
Inevitably however, the day came when she was so weakened that she had to return to Pittsburgh, her hometown.
然而這一天終究還是到來了。由于過于虛弱,她不得不回到自己的家鄉(xiāng)——匹茲堡。
There she began relieving her adventures by writing a book about them.
她在那兒開始寫書,講述自己的冒險經(jīng)歷。
Her book was published in 1993.
她的書出版于1993年。