Joyce Li of Ottawa Recovered from Stroke
January 28, 2004
On January 25, 2004, Canadian MELAS patient Joyce Li of Ottawa shared her
testimony with the audience at Rejuveno's Ottawa Chinese New Year Banquet:
I am glad to share my testimony this evening. I am Joyce Li. By looking at me,
anyone believes that I had a stroke almost three years ago? That was in March,
2001. I am sure you know what happens to a person after the stroke. I had the
same symptoms as other stroke patients do. After my stroke, I could not move. My
mobility was so poor that I was half-paralysed for a few months. That was a
horrible experience. Later, a friend introduced me Reishi & Placenta. I
started taking it and my mobility came back slowly, I could move freely after a
few months.
I would like to share with you about the disease I have. Unfortunately, we have
a horrible genetic disease happened in our family, called MELAS (Mitochondrial
Encephalomyopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-like Episodes). It is one of many types of
mitochondrial-disorder disease.
Usually, people talk about one or two particular sickness in their body. It is
rare to have so many disorders in their body function at the same time, like
me.
What is mitochondrial-disorder? That is, the patient has a problem of making
energy. We all need energy to live and without enough energy, our body struggles
to survive. Without energy, our body cells die, and after a while, when more and
more cells die, the body begins to show problems, for example, seizures, poor
muscle tone, gastro-intestinal problems, difficult in growing, inability to make
new cells, inability to fight infection, kidney malfunction, heart problem---,
the list is endless. Eventually, when even more cells die, organs start to
fail. This is an incurable disease.
The last two years before I had the stroke, I also had asthma, muscle-weakness,
double vision, headaches, easy to get sick all the time. I am a hearing-impaired
and I only have 10% hearing ability. Stroke is only one of the symptoms of this
MELAS disease.
Because of the stroke, I started taking Reishi & Placenta. It has given me
back the mobility after the stroke. It also reduces my symptoms of sickness.
Since Reishi is good for the immune system, it helps body cells create energy.
For over two years, I don't have any more strokes and I have more energy. I
enjoy my daily life, because I can move around and I can go anywhere without
difficulty. I am happy that my mind is clear (after the stroke), I can read and
write. Because of taking Reishi & Placenta, I can get back to normal life.
Thank you!
You can read more about Joyce and her daughter Betty's story by
clicking here on MELAS.
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