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She is a normal sweet-toothed woman who loathed the tasteless taste of water. She preferred any other liquid when thirsty to water. In a pathetic bid to be healthy, Aisha would choose to drink flavoured water apart from the everyday delight of lemonades, sport drinks and basic supermarket juices.
Aisha did not really have any underlying health problems apart from unceasing obesity, slight arthritis in the knees, unexplained and frequent tiredness, occasional insomnia, niggling toothache, unclear thinking and headaches that come and go. Despite these, Aisha still considers herself very healthy. She thinks of others in her age range who are already committed to some life-long medication, she compares herself to not-too- good conditions in other people and concludes she wasn’t doing badly after all. She however secretly wonders why at thirty something in her knees creaked in pain when climbing a stair case. It seemed all innocent and like an of-course-it-would-go- away- pain. She loved life but kept on struggling with many pains. Some old and some new.
One day, Aisha went to a supermarket and came across a free health check and thought it a good idea since she qualified for it. Aisha, like many girls disliked needles and pricks and quickly asked what the test involved. The petite physiologist presented the test in a very easy and good light. So Aisha went ahead. It was good so far, she was 5 foot, 3 and a half inches, she was 96kg (she still felt good at this stage because she was 102kg last year) and she knew as she has always known that she would need to loose more weight.
The male nurse was good looking and chatty. He made Aisha feel at ease and asked some questions about her and her family. She was proud to say she had no underlying health problems neither did her parents. She answered every question with pride and was only waiting to be told ‘you have a perfect blood pressure but you need to lose weight’.
Arm was strapped and electronically pumped for her blood pressure. Aisha was surprised to discover it was high. Twice the test was done and twice the bottom result showed over 90. This, the nurse said should not be over 90 and if one is perpetually overweight, the body will work overtime at every given point to pump blood around the body.
Well, the still-friendly nurse pricked her finger and to their amazement, not a jot of blood came out…the nurse tried to squeeze the blood out but there was hardly any drop. A thick dark red substance lazily struggled to come out. The nurse was not happy, he asked, when last did you drink some water? Aisha looked up and then down, and replied, ‘I think yesterday in the afternoon’. The once chatty nurse suddenly looked serious and looked at Aisha in the eyes. ‘You are killing yourself, you know that?’ he asked, when did you take your last smear test? This time Aisha was ashamed, she whispered ‘some years ago, I was scared to go there’.
The nurse then went on to explain potential dangers to Aisha and he ended his heart-rending speech by saying ‘my dear, why do you want to make yourself part of the bad statistics? Why don’t you proof you are different, educated and care for your life?’ it goes without saying that Aisha also needed to loose close to 30kg to be at the right weight for her height.
Aisha left the temporary clinic feeling deflated and shocked. She once thought she wasn’t that bad health wise. After all, she ate vegetables and fruits on a daily basis, she walks leisurely around or sometimes runs for the buses or trains, she liked sweet treats but was definitely not overboard with them. One thing Aisha knew though, she had made no efforts with water. Now it all became clear- the horrible pain in the joints, the horrible spots on her dry face, the bad period pains, constipation, dry and breaking hair, new allergies, the struggles to sleep, the unexplained anger and drop in happiness level are all symptoms germinating from a deep seated and bad habit – the neglect of water.
Aisha could not continue her house shopping after her shocking discovery which showed how hazardous and sick her body had been. She went back into the car and although there was a winter breeze, her teeth clattered and her lips shook more pitifully. Aisha reached for a bottle of water and downed it with reckless abandon. She stared outside watching every passer-by, wondering what story their internal organs had to say.
As soon as she got home, Aisha immediately drank more water and allowed herself to feel the cleansing starting from within. She had been jolted out of a fake beauty sleep. She couldn’t sleep on time that night. She went on the internet to research and learn more about water. Aisha now understands that it’s not just about a good past but what you are doing now to ensure a good future. Aisha now understands that a patched throat, dry lips or a mere feeling of thirst shows the internal organs have been long subjected to Operation Sahara Desert, the poor organs colliding with frictions and not well lubricated. She used the eyes of her imagination to look inward and did not like what she saw.
Aisha placed herself on a water regime and spoke to loved ones to help her keep on. She took the matter seriously and prayed for a change in attitude and care for herself. She had had a deep seated fear of drinking water for the then repercussion of wetting her bed as a young girl. This fear built the bad habit of staying away from water at all cost but was now threatening her very own existence. Aisha believed she is blessed to have had this experience and she asked me to write her experience for others to learn from.
So if you’ve been reckless either knowingly or unknowingly, reach for a bottle now and change the possible fatal destiny of your body. Aisha is now a changed being, she drinks pure water first thing in the morning and last thing at night not forgetting the constant sipping during the day.
Water is now glorious to Aisha and can be to you too!
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