Translated by Kirill Bobrovsky. Published in English for the first time CHAPTER 2. "Standards" breaking (without mom) I don't want to remember anything on pages of even a very frank book in order to look more aesthetic and more significant ... Mom offered to register disability and I refused. Meanwhile, I had to look for some work in Rostov and to search for housing for the next year which was necessary till Sasha's graduation. A local newspaper office was visited: there was a vacancy in the editorial department and the hostel was not promised...

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...