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Will I live through this?

SECOND WIND - Barbara Gonzalez-Ventura - The Philippine Star

I remember writing about StemEnhance a few years ago then directing people to call my friend Gon Bunag.  After a while I got a bit irritated because so many texted, complaining that he did not reply.  When I finally saw him I asked why.  How do you expect me to reply to more than 300 texts?

Last Saturday I knew what he meant.  I write this on Wednesday.  Since Saturday I think I must have tried to respond to more than 800 texts from all over the Philippines.  In between the texts I answer innumerable telephone inquiries.  Then there’s the rest of my life that also needs my time.  Oh dear God, will I live through this?

Once I got a big touch cell phone but manipulating it got on my nerves.  I decided to buy myself a basic one, which I handle pretty well.  But it couldn’t handle all the texts that came in minute by minute.  I stared at my cell my eyes getting bigger as it received continuous texts.  I decided finally to revive my big cell phone and move my SIM card but I did not know how to do it.  Anyway, Sunday morning I walked over to a nearby store and asked for help.

Now we must remember that I am a woman who enjoys living alone.  I have no one to help me answer texts.  I do it all myself.   It gets maddening.  I spent all of  Sunday answering text and the telephone.  Finally on Monday I went to see someone who taught me how to do templates and answer more quickly.  Today is Wednesday, most of the texts are answered, the ones in the Manila area.  Tomorrow I will try to manage more of the provincial areas and also send more medicines to them.

But I would like to take this occasion first to thank everyone who responded for their patience and to apologize for being sungit to some of them. I am so sorry. Also, if I did not respond, I may have lost your text in the transfer from small to big cell phone.  If you want more information, please text me again and please put your name on your text message.  I know you probably think you’re the only texter but you are wrong.  There are hundreds of you and I am now as confused as a stem cell circulating in your blood vessels waiting for some diseased part of you to grab her.

Maybe I should explain again.  Your bone marrow produces stem cells.  Stem cells are the body’s natural healers.  They circulate in your body and when they come across an organ in need of repair, they become those cells.  Now as we grow older our bodies slow down.  This algae from an Oregon USA lake encourages the development of stem cells and propels them around your body.  These stem cells are supposed to be good at healing everything and restoring everything that needs too be fixed.  But all that takes time and StemEnhance is not a miracle drug so please stop asking me how long it will take to do you good.  I don’t know the answer.  In the first place I don’t know what’s wrong with you.  Come to think of it, I don’t even know you.  I only know myself and I have been taking it steadily for three years.

However, some ladies asked me one interesting question.  They asked if it was good for autism.  I told them I would email our chief science officer, Christian Drapeau, who did all the research on this.  He said: “Autism is one condition with which we have received very interesting testimonials to the point that we have begun a clinical trial.  But this is not completed and I do not have any documented case, so no claim can be made.  But if someone asks, I would tell him that he could see benefits and it would be worth trying.” 

Now I’m afraid I will get all sorts of text from people who have autistic children.  Never mind, I shall be ready.

In the end I think we have to confront the question of chemical drugs.  I do not like them, do not trust them except for paracetamol, which I take when I get a rare headache.  The more sophisticated the chemical drug is, the more side effects it has the more careful you have to be.  I have turned into a naturalist as far as medicines are concerned.  Of course you don’t know me but those who have picked up StemEnhance from me agree that I don’t look like I’ve had a stroke and I look younger than my 68 years.

As far as I’m concerned nobody gets a heart attack from cholesterol.  They get one because of stress (that’s what caused mine) or because God decides it’s time for them to die.  Tell me how can chemical medicines help those two reasons?  Me, I just want to be happy and healthy as long as I can. 

Am I going to live through the barrage of texts?  Yes, I think I will.  I am finally just glad to be of help.  I thank you for your patience.

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