As I wrote above, I am inspired by stories of recovery or health improvement even when a person does not go to doctors, taking oneself as healthy.
And I get the most inspiration when the results are received by our loved ones.
Here is one of those stories.
Now my mother is 85 years old. But I had my first conversations about health and nutrition with her 18 years ago. By that time, despite the fact that she had already been retired for 12 years, she had to earn extra money, because the pension was small. The last place of work is a social service. Mom had to help the elderly people: carry food for them, sometimes wash the floors for them and cook food. Some of her wards were even younger than her. There were no maximum weight-bearing standards, but there were minimum service standards - ten elderly woman and old men had to be visited at least twice a week. And each of them needed 10-15 kg of food to be brought. And most of them needed to talk with. So by the time of dismissal she had already practically permanent heartache, the nerves were frayed. Ten days after her dismissal, my mother had a massive myocardial infarction, followed by three weeks of intensive care and three months of rehabilitation. Everything was very hard.
After that, my mother revised her views on health and nutrition and came to the conclusion that nutrition should be supplemented with useful substances and vitamins.
And now … 12 years have passed.
To date, doctors have stated that the consequences of a heart attack have completely disappeared, as if there was no heart attack at all - the scar has resolved. Quite recently, one of my mother’s friends decided to help her to get to the hospital using his connections, so that, again, using his connections, she would have a stent installation operation, considering this as the highest good. During the preoperative examination in the hospital, when the stent was already ready for installation, the surgeon said that he would not put a stent, since there were no indications – the vessels lumen was more than 75% (the stent was to be placed when the vessels lumen was less than 65%).
And this is at the age of 85 and with such entries in the medical history.
Stories like this really inspire me!