Amma's Diabetes - A Journey to her Self-Discovery
Unna, a Lecturer and Nutritionist from Bangalore shares an insightful testimony of her mother-in-law Amma about how the Wellness Quotient community helped Amma maintain her diabetes at a healthy level.
Amma has been a diabetic since past 16 years. She is someone who loved snacking between her meals and also believed in self-medication, relying on her own judgement heavily. For eg., she was irregular on her doctor-prescribed insulin medication and used to consume it whimsically. Although, Unna being a part of the WQ Community used to advise Amma on a regular basis, but Amma used to take such advice with a pinch of salt. These practices did not help her much, which is why she couldn’t keep her diabetes under control.
Eventually, one day she landed up at St John’s hospital in Bangalore. This sudden incident scared her a lot. She became very emotional and was more open to accept specific advise on her health. Unna could now control everything that was going on in her life and she could very well drive home the point that how just by making a few changes in Amma’s lifestyle combined with natural supplementation, things can work out much better in her favor.
Though Amma still loves to do snacking here and there, but just because of all the health supplements she was consuming, in about seven months time frame, she could recover well and drop down into the non-diabetic range. Even today at the age of 78, after 2 years of her success story, her HbA1c level is still maintained at 5.5 which is a big relief for the family.