Two years ago, shortly after taking his second Covid booster, my father was diagnosed with cancer, both in his lungs and intestines. This led to surgery on his intestines, which gave him an extra year of life, but with very little in the way of quality. What had been a man of unusually good health for his age, turned into a shadow of his former self. Only his mind escaped the carnage. He stayed lucid until his dying day, some two months ago.
When my father's end was approaching, I went to Oslo to stay with my mother. My timing was perfect, it turned out, because I arrived just in time to be with my father during his final days. What followed was a series of events, including the funeral and associated formalities. But I had plenty of time to myself, and I made sure I made the most of it. I made myself a big breakfast with bacon and egg every morning, and I spent my free time working in my parents' garden, which had decayed into a good deal of chaos over the last few years.
New routine
I had a new routine, and I kept it for the duration of the seven weeks that I spent at my mother's place.
The effects of this routine was a further increase in my wellbeing, and when my wife came to Oslo towards the end of my stay, she could not help noticing the change as well. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, they say, and there's truth to that it appears. Especially when the period of absence has been used to eat well and engage in relatively strenuous exercise.
My new routine didn't go so far as to completely replace my old routines. I was still doing my Kegel exercises, and I was massaging oil onto troubled skin. However, I did not eat any cumin seeds, nor ingest any other natural medicine. Nor did I eat any oatmeal porridge. Bread, protein and potatoes was the staple of my diet.
Reversed aging
The positive effect of this has been so great that I feel genuinely younger than I did a few years ago, which goes to show that much of what we think of as aging is in fact ailments that can be reversed. This goes for all sorts of things, ranging from skin problem to libido. I've seen a great deal of reversal in both cases. Another thing that has improved by a great deal is a lingering numbness in my right foot. It was getting to a point a few years back when I thought a doctor's visit would be in order. However, daily massaging of the effected areas have reversed this too. My toes are not as stiff in the joints as they were, and my foot is no longer numb, except for a small part of my big toe.
Having returned to Porto, I've kept up my newly acquired habits, and the effect of this seems to be affecting my wife as well. She joins me in my new eating habits, and she enjoys my youthful libido. This makes her too seem healthier than she has in a while. The secondary effects of my altered lifestyle aren't limited to my body. They extend beyond me, affecting my wife, and by extension, our son and my stepdaughter.
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