This month I wanted to share with you my experience of visiting my Grandpa in Hospital in the city. Gramps was recently admitted to hospital for acute pain and distress associated with his recent diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. I saw him about 6 weeks ago and I noticed that he had become a bit forgetful and frail but nothing could have prepared me for my visit with him this March Break. I actually walked right past him in his room-I literally did not recognize him. He was half his normal size and was lying on his back under a crumpled sheet on a very cluttered ward. He slept that day for almost the eight hours that we were visiting and my Mum and Nan were there and my Nan is 84 -extremely great for her age but you can tell that Gramps's illness is taking its toll on her.
The next day we returned and he was sitting up in the patent's lounge and when he saw me his fantastically big blue eyes looked up at me and the love and recognition of me was overwhelming - I decided to take him for a walk and he was chatting up all the nurses and bragging about his granddaughter - I was very humbled. When we went back to his room that he shares with a man who screams in pain all the time I began giving him a Bowen treatment and really calmed Gramps down and he passed a lot of wind which he apologized for but said it made him feel a lot better.
I remembered the last treatment I gave him for a tennis elbow pain about 2 years ago and how fit he was. You see Gramps is a very intelligent man and he had his own engineering firm for years. This disease crept up on him and took us all by surprise. The next day he slept all day and was very frustrated by his lack of memory and all the confusion around him. I miss my Gramps!
I realized that good health is truly a gift and there is so much we can do to prevent ourselves from becoming so ill but we think it won't happen to us - think again!! Nobody is responsible for your health apart from YOU! Do not wait until you feel ill to be ill - take stock of your life and do the things we talk about - eat better, cleanse often, exercise, laugh, de-stress your life - enjoy your kids, have fun - remember the blackout we had a few years ago (yes I know a lot of babies were born 9 months later so some of you got the message) - why not try and have a day per week where you pretend you are in The Little House on the Prairie and turn off your power and enjoy some family time around the candles - your kids will love it! Life is for living - what are you doing with yours?
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