Kyle MCNease
CEO AND FOUNDER
Nearly a decade of my life has been spent under the iron-fisted hand of a dictating disease and I am just now getting to a place in my life where I can come to terms with what it means to live again, with all of the pain and the pleasure. I spent a significant portion of my life isolated from the connecting power of nature and others. I fell off the grid, off the map and into an abyss of suffering. It felt like time should stand still, like the earth should somehow stop long enough for me to recover. But, it didn't. I didn't. The phone eventually stopped ringing. Friends moved on. I remained fixed in a hospital bed. Illness blew through me like wind through the Grand Canyon, leaving little more than a naked soul. Sounds melodramatic now, like it couldn't be true of my barely-life. The stack of medical records on my shelf reminds me that it isn't a story or something made for a book. It's a true account of coming to terms with what was and what is. In the process of being stripped of just about every dignity we consider human, I developed a different view of time and the natural world around me. Everything I say here is an open dialogue, not in any way meant to be a final answer. What I express in this space are costly opinions that were negotiated with and within suffering and continue to be just that: an on-going negotiation and continual coming-to-terms with what I perceive around me.
Why Prognosis Hope?
What is Prognosis Hope? Catastrophic illness and misfortune hit me out of nowhere. One day I'm traveling the world and suddenly...I can't even travel to the bathroom on my own? I had no script for how to survive all of the pain, suffering, and loss that I was experiencing. So I turned to the medical community for hope. One of my doctors told me that the best-case scenario for my life was that I would someday recover enough that I could get myself to future appointments. At the time, even the prospect of that was miraculous and seemed a million miles away. It wasn't exactly what I would call the good life, but it was infinitely better than the alternative. The ultimate test was finding a way to survive.
Prognosis Hope was born out of on my own experience of overcoming overwhelming odds. I've dedicated my life to helping people find hope and healing.
The world can be a cynical place. We all know there's lots of darkness, chaos, and confusion. When you're facing life's toughest challenges, sometimes you need someone else to come along and lend you their light--even if it's just for a season. I wouldn't be here without the light, love, and hope that was lavished on me. The dream that kept me fighting for each breath was that I would one day be able to share that same grace, generosity, and inspiration with someone else who needed it.
Prognosis Hope was born out of on my own experience of overcoming overwhelming odds. I've dedicated my life to helping people find hope and healing.
The world can be a cynical place. We all know there's lots of darkness, chaos, and confusion. When you're facing life's toughest challenges, sometimes you need someone else to come along and lend you their light--even if it's just for a season. I wouldn't be here without the light, love, and hope that was lavished on me. The dream that kept me fighting for each breath was that I would one day be able to share that same grace, generosity, and inspiration with someone else who needed it.