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Most Of Us Will Experience Health Problems At Some Point During Our Lives, But Some Individuals Show Outstanding Courage When Confronted With Incurable And Serious Health Complaints
Over the years, we all realise that some parts of our bodies don’t operate quite as well as they used to and some unfortunate people seem destined to attract one problem after another during their lives. However, some of these people who seem to endure many health issues often have a resilience that the remainder of us have to envy.
I can think of two such individuals in my life who have displayed a determination that has kept them going for a lot longer than medical science would have estimated. My own father developed asthma as a child, which meant that he frequently experienced attacks of breathlessness and needed inhalers from a young age. When he was 45 he was hospitalised with a particularly violent asthma attack and shortly after that he experienced a cardiac arrest. The family was advised that he had roughly a fifty per cent chance of living and we were told that if he did make it there was a very real probability that he would have suffered some level of brain damage as his brain had been starved of oxygen for too long.
However, he did pull through and his brain was not affected intellectually although his physical reflexes had slowed down noticably. Some years later, whilst in hospital again after another serious asthma attack, he told the doctor about other symptoms and discovered he had bowel cancer. Luckily it was at a very early stage and he underwent successful treatment for it.
In later years, his lungs and heart deteriorated to such an extent that he had no option than to be hooked up to a permanent oxygen supply and became virtually housebound. His lungs were so awful that simply relocating from one chair to another would leave him struggling to breathe and quite unable to do anything else at all. Even lifting a glass to his mouth was impossible. He finally passed on four years ago, but to reach his seventies despite suffering from such serious problems truly was an achievement.
The mother of a close friend has suffered a similar catalogue of health complaints. She got polio as a child, was confined to an iron lung for most of her childhood and was never expected to walk again. She baffled the doctors by managing to walk and went on to become a singer and thereafter became a nursery teacher. She married and gave birth to three children despite being informed that she was unable to have children, and spent years caring for her husband after he broke his neck and developed a serious heart condition.
Sadly, following her husband’s death, she had a nasty fall which badly damaged her ankle and this, together with the onset of severe arthritis in both legs and arms, led to her becoming virtually housebound. She started to suffer from a lung complaint and then started to experience problems with her eyesight. An operation on one eye left her in a lot of pain, and although she was recommended Laser eye surgery for the other eye, she didn’t want to get it done after the bad experience she’d had with the conventional eye surgery.
A chest infection a few months back had a serious effect on her already weak lungs and resulted in her being rushed into hospital only a few minutes away from death, but somehow she managed to hang on to life and slowly recovered. However, she now has to use a constant oxygen supply and has had no option other than to move into a residential care home where her mobility issues and breathing difficulties are reviewed regularly.
Since she moved into the home though, she is now able to mix with other people rather than spending most days in solitude at home. She now takes much more pride in her appearance, and has become a definite favourite with the staff as a result of her feisty outlook on life. Whilst she frequently says that the place is not her ‘home’, it has definitely given her a new lease of life. A recent trip to the optician again suggested that she have Laser eye treatment on her other eye as she was having trouble even viewing the television, and this time she actually agreed to be referred to an eye specialist for a Laser eye surgery assessment.
She recently visited the local hospital where a extremely friendly specialist carried out the Laser eye treatment and she suddenly realised just how bad her sight had become. Her big complaint now? That when she looks in the mirror, she can now see how old she has become!
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