GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY

"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project." - Napoleon Hill 

When Nigel and Karen Farrow welcomed their first child, their plan was to move to where they'd grown in South Australia. Upon arriving, they received a call from their doctor: there was a problem. Their ten-week-old daughter had been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.
“Immediately the world as we knew it was gone, ripped out from under us,” Dr. Farrow said. Within days of the news, Ella’s lungs collapsed and was rushed to intensive care. “It was all getting too hard, very quickly,” he recalls. “We didn’t know if she was going to make it, and if she did, we didn’t know what kind of life she was going to have.”
It's important to note here that, Nigel Farrow, at the time of this interview, is referred to as "Dr. Farrow." That's not who he was when this story began. Nigel was a musician when their daughter was first diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. But he was compelled to do whatever he had to, for his daughter. That’s when he and his wife decided to do the most amazing thing. “My instincts were telling me that it was my role to fix this for Ella,” said Nigel, “So I did what I thought had to be done, and became a scientist.”

He says, “I’m not one to sit back and wait for others to do things.” So nine years and three
degrees later, this musician gave up his music, to become a scientist. He is now a member of the Adelaide research team, on the verge of offering a new stem cell therapy that promises to correct cells damaged by the disease. The research shows that the new procedure works.

Sometimes when we become too comfortable with life as we know, want or like it, God throws in a little trouble to ruffle our feathers, and rustle our nest. How come a professional musician could do what an entire scientific community couldn't? That's the power of being 'UNCOMFORTABLE' and getting your hands dirty. When the motivation in us, matches the mountains before us, mountains move. No matter how desperate the need or how difficult the problem, dissatisfaction will break it. Just do it!