Love Yourself, Heal Yourself

A story of how loving yourself allows you to heal yourself and develop unfathomable determination to overcome any obstacle.

After overcoming insulin resistance, I was very happy and started exercising on a regular basis. I was gaining muscle on my arms, though one of my arms was hurting, so I stopped using my left arm for weight lifting. One day I realised that my muscle on my arm was getting harder, I was a bit concerned so I went to see a doctor. The doctor suspected it was muscle injury as I was lifting weights but to be on safe side asked me to get it checked by his specialist colleague.

Shockingly the other doctor declared an emergency as he stated that is was a fat deposit, which was pretty big in size. The muscle which I was proud of wasn’t muscle rather a fat deposit trapped between muscles on my shoulder. I was rushed into the MRI multiple times due to the large size of the fat deposit. I had no clue how long it took to grow in size.

The doctor said it’s "Lipoma" which needs to be operated whenever I’m ready. They said it doesn’t look like a cancerous tumor but we have to be careful and do a biopsy post-operation. 

This was the first time in my life I was scared!

I wasn’t able to sleep at nights, thinking about what will happen to my kids if I don’t survive. 

Then I prayed and meditated which gave me strength. I decided to go for the operation. My husband suggested we should do it after my birthday, so we can enjoy and later go to the hospital, but I was determined to do it earlier. I said I’ll get it done because I want to be back in my house for my birthday. Two days before my birthday I went to the hospital, went through the surgery and I was discharged on my birthday. 

The biopsy was done and it was declared as a “Benign tumor “.

It was not cancerous BUT THE SCARE WAS REAL

My faith, that I’ll be back home cancer-free on my birthday, was strong enough to protect me

Lesson Learned 

1. Doctors told me that my diet was the main factor, that protected me because when you eat greens and Vitamin C rich food on a regular basis it does not let the tumors grow and retards cancerous cell growth within your body. 

2. We should hire a coach whenever we try something new so we are under supervision, that way we can be vigilant about our progress or possible downfalls. Not getting a trainer and weight lifting without supervision costed me a torn muscle and fat deposition which lead to a scary condition. 

3. You can heal your body with faith and concentration.

Outcome

After going through this difficult phase in my life, I felt that I have been given another chance to give back to my community. Now a new phase in my life has begun where I am committed to help people around me and spread positivity as a holistic health/lifestyle coach.