today my daughter is abit key poh because she also wants to create her own blog
anyway she is 'growing' already.

WHEN ALL ELSE FAIL

This morningI visited a friend whom husband is suffering from third stage cancer of the left leg. His pain was diagnosed about one year ago. Prior to that, he has been complaining of pain from the lower back and pelvis area. As an active and avid street soccer player, one would'nt have crossed his mind of such a killer disease could ever occur to him. 'Fated' is what we always blame.

One morning he woke up from sleep having severe pain from the back down to the pelvis. He recalled of no fall from his soccer matches a few days earlier. This excruciating pain began to worsen day by day. He went for several sessions of massage as well seeking the expertise hands of Chinese accupunturist. All ways and means being focused on him and solely him.

Being the breadwinner for a family consisting of wife and 5 kids, I can imagine his concerns for the kids, for his financial state and his life counting the days. All I can do is just prayers for the family and comforting words, when all else fail.

That's what life is all about, always be ready to accept our fate like it or not.

INSTANT RELIEF

Today my client is an Indonesian maid who had slipped herself in the bathroom 2 days ago. Poor clients... cant do any housework and cant nanny the employer's two kids. I felt sorry for her, she's a maid, yet household duties were still on her shoulder even though she was suffering the pain.

I want to share with all of you what can be done when there's minor fall or slip at home. It will be better if we know how to break our fall but most of us do not learn any martial arts that can teach us so. My method is after a fall, we must quickly take some oinment and rub on the area of fall such as the butt, wrists, hands, ankle, lower back and all other affected area. By doing so we are actually soothing the muscles and ligaments before they get tensed and swelled. Get some rest and abstain from vigourous activities for the time being. Try this before you rush to the doctor. This self massage has been a popular instant relief for decades. If the area swell for more than 2 days, please seek medical help to ensure there's no fracture of the bones.

Try and see it for yourself.

Massage for you?

Massage has been an ancient practice to sooth the aching or tired body as well as to relax the tense muscles from the hard labour in the early days. We called this relaxing massage. Besides this normal body relaxing massage there are few other type of massages for example:

1) pre-natal massage to position baby in the right space in the mother's womb
2) post-natal massage to recuperate mothers from the labour pains and aches.
3) baby massage for colicic baby or general soothing purposes
4) for sprained and sports injuries

Today, massage has been a well known practice for rejuvenating and therapeutic reasons. With the existence of numerous spa services as well as resort with massage facilities, massage has been considered as conservative and alternative remedy besides modern medicines.

As a malay family, I was brought up seeing the practice of massage back in my mum's hometown in Malaysia. We, as in me and six other siblings, also received our doses of massage during our growing age given by our mum definitely. I assume then that this practice of giving and receiving are just a norm activities in every household, not till I grew up and understand this unique activities is not only good for our health, but also benefitted us in our bonding, which not many families are gifted with.

Have YOU ever considered massage as your family bonding time?????