“Excuse me Madam, please don’t think I’m strange by approaching you like this, but I really believe I can help you…”
It was a weird approach but I was determined to help and was used to people not entirely understanding the benefits I could deliver.
A battle I constantly face, is not the fact that I cannot help people who might have specific ailments they suffer from, but the fact that they do not know my type of help is even available. I constantly get people who underestimate the healing power of Medical Massage.
They always think it is the touchy feely, feel-good massage they had at a Thai Spa once, and that did not never helped the disorder that they’ve been agonizing over.
They always seem to ask, “How could you possibly help me by only using massage?”
Many times, this made me feel despondent and wanted to give up entirely, but I knew I could never do that. Not when there were people out there who needed my help. I had a healing gift, and therefore a responsibility, to help as many people as possible, even if sometimes I thought the fact, I cared too much was a curse.
One of the stories that always inspired me was an elderly lady I saw one winter morning at my local Spar Supermarket. I notice she had noticeable veins running from her knees done to her feet and was struggling very badly to even walk. This was something I knew I could fix, but I was too shy at the time to approach her.
This in fact kept me up that night as I kept thinking about the elderly lady and the pain she was dealing with. She reminded me of my own grandmother who also struggled like her every day and I knew I had to help!
The next morning, I got up excited and incredibly determined to find her. I knew my touch would help her, so I got in my car and drove back to the Spar I saw her in yesterday.
I waited outside the entrance for two hours, waiting to see if the lady would come back, but there was no sign of her. I had just started my car and was about to leave and try the next day when I spotted her!
I was so relieved I had to double check to see if it was really her, but the hobbling limp and pained expression definitely belonged to her.
I immediately got out my car and started walking towards her. I wasn’t even sure what I was going to say to her or how she would react to a stranger engaging with her, so I just started by saying, “Excuse me Madam, please don’t think I’m strange by approaching you like this, but I really believe I can help you with your legs and feet.”
She was at first a little taken aback, but then she began telling me how she had been suffering with this for years. She had been for all sorts of treatments that cost her large amount of money, but with no relief. She was forced to rely on pain medication and other pharmaceuticals just to get through her day, which was giving her other internal problems and side effects.
She then asked me how I could possibly help her when everything else has failed.
I told her I knew in my heart I could help her and make a difference in her life, and all she needed to do is give me a chance.
I could see she was still uncertain, but she gave me her telephone number and we set up a time for me to go visit the next day.
The following day I arrive at the lady’s address and realise she was living in retirement village. I knocked on her door and she opened it with the warmest smile on her face.
I set her up in her favourite chair and immediately began working on her feet. As I made my way up to her legs, we chatted about her family and her life. She laments that they don’t visit enough and there weren’t enough eligible gentlemen callers in her the village. We laughed together and it truly felt like we knew each other for years, and was so happy I could have this opportunity to make her life worth living pain-free again
Once I finished up on her other leg, I asked her to stand up, walk around a bit and let me know how she was feeling.
“It feels like I am walking on clouds! I feel like a new person.”
She was amazed at the results, but no more so than I was. I knew the results would be this, but it takes me aback every time! Amazed and grateful. And the more people I helped, the more I believed that this was the right path!
She would need regular maintenance massages in future, but this was the first step in her pain free recovery!
About an hour after I left, the lady called to inform that she had spoken to the retirement villages management and they wanted me to come treat everyone’s ailments. I was so appreciative and immediately started making appointments.
I asked all my elderly patients, with similar leg and feet issues, what do they feel? The answers were scarily similar:-
- Restless leg syndrome – People with this syndrome have unusual feelings in their legs (like itching, crawling, pulling, aching, throbbing, or pins and needles) causing a powerful urge to move their legs to make the sensation go away. It can cause severe nightly sleep disruption for them and their partners.
- Burning sensation and severe pain throughout the legs and feet.
- When standing and walking the pain becomes unbearable, so much so that the person doesn’t want to even stand up. It felt like their lives had ended and they were trapped in their chair or bed. Even going to the toilet was a nightmare of pain.
After the massages their mobility improved dramatically, and they described how they felt they had received a second chance at life.
This is my story and my life mission.
Live your life pain-free!