The Silent Saboteur
How Nerve Damage Can Undermine Your Leadership Edge
Imagine this. On a humid Tuesday morning in Atlanta, a marketing executive noticed a strange fizzing sensation in her toes, like soda bubbles under the skin. She shrugged it off as a pinched nerve from a long run.
Weeks later the fizz had turned into nightly sparks of pain and her balance felt unreliable in the boardroom’s high-heeled shoes. She did not know it yet, but her story was part of a much larger one.
That electric buzz beneath the skin is the earliest whisper of peripheral neuropathy, a disorder in which the nerves outside the brain and spinal cord begin to misfire.
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