Jim Woodford wasn’t a religious man. But after five years of suffering from agonizing pain due to Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare condition in which his body’s immune system attacked his nerves, Woodford quite literally saw the light.
This retired pilot from Canada had traveled all over the world and never thought much about spiritual matters. But the experience of the neurological disease left him in a state of desperation, leading to a dependence and then overdose on prescription pain medication.
