-Lifesaving Television Programs
I enjoy watching movies, network series and cartoons. However, I think my TV fixation is the result of a genetic flaw…there must be some type of coding embedded in one of my genes that is responsible for the love I have for this media. Some people say TV rots the brain, but no matter…I ain’t giving it up. Whatever the cause…I really enjoy watching TV.
As a matter of fact, just the other day while channel surfing I came across a program on the Discovery Channel that nearly brought me too tears for two reason. Firstly the story was about a woman that was dying because of an enormous tumor that was growing on the lower portion of her back and thighs. And secondly…because of the outpouring of love from her family and community as they urgently worked together desperately in an effort to save her life, it was so moving, I was simply fighting back the tears.
This wife, mother and daughter had suffered and had been unable to walk for more than three years, while this growth took over the lower portion of her body…and her life. She has Neurofibromatosis also called Von Recklinghausen’s disease, a rare genetic disorder characterized by the development of multiple noncancerous (benign) tumors of nerves and skin. Wow, that’s a mouthful…this women was a very attractive 47 year old lady, which wasn’t at all obvious from the first glimpses that I had seen of her. OMGosh this parasitic growth was literally sucking the life from her. Due to it’s growth and it’s needs she was suffering from a damaged heart besides numerous other conditions related to this thing.
But there was a Happy Ending to this saga, one day she decided to watch one of her favorite shows on the telly…The Discovery Channel, and believe it or not… they were airing a story about a woman who had the exact same condition as she had…and how a Doctor from America had brought her back from the brink of extinction and saved her from the ‘jaws of death’.
And although too much of anything isn’t good for you, just a little bit of TV could save your life…it did save this ladies life.
You can find out more about this amazing story, which ‘by the way’ actually occurred in January of 2004…by clicking the following link…
