Thank You To Readers - Simple Gifts
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Healthline
Several readers have e-mailed me saying they have stopped long-standing pain and gotten fitter than from their gym programs by using Fitness Fixer posts. They say they can now exercise where before they were held down by pain and medical treatment. Now they have mobility and fun and hope. Thank you all for being brave and empowered to try.
One reader read the earlier blog post An Exercise in Helping People Get Healthy about the blind woman in Madison Wisconsin who just wanted some fruit and vegetables but there was no public transport to the market, only a bus to the store that sells junk food.
The kind reader, asking to remain anonymous, did a Google search to find a Madison neighborhood association with volunteers from the Regent Market Co-op who will shop and deliver a food order at no extra charge. She e-mailed the information to me and said, "I hope she'll be feeling better soon. Fresh fruits and vegetables may help with that!"
I thank this brave reader for the link to people who will be there, above just a package. We have found that the box of food that we bought here and shipped to her, delivered a week ago Friday, has sat unopened in our friend's house. She has been too sick to open it. This reader may be the one to save this lady's life. The reader replied, "It was a very simple thing for me to do."
Photo by ladyphoenixx_1999
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3 Comments:
At Monday, January 08, 2007 11:19:00 PM,
Healthline said…
Another thanks to all of you - the network of good.
A friend of mine who lives in the Madison area has the crushing schedule of a pediatric neurologist, researcher, devoted husband, and father of two young children. When I told him that the lady had been too sick to open the box of food for over a week, he phoned her to see if she needed him (a stranger to her) to run over or send help, then got word back to me that she was all right and recovering.
"The doctor of the future will interest his patients in diet, care of the human frame, and in the prevention of disease."
- Thomas Edison
At Tuesday, January 16, 2007 1:55:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
The power of the blogosphere!!!! What an uplifting story (and comment from Dr. Bookspan)
At Friday, February 16, 2007 1:39:00 PM,
Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM said…
a note to let all of you know that our lady in Wisconsin - upbeat, independent, funny, and my adoptive mother - passed away last week. Thank you readers, for all you did.
"Do not use your hands only for worship; use your hands to remove the tears and pain of mankind. That is the real worship.
- Amma, in Blessed Souls
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