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Rajiv S. Bajaj's avatar

Excellent write up sir. I feel I am gaining wisdom and learning methods for soul expansion by reading your writings. Thank you so much for this blog and God Bless!

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Tonie Heyneke's avatar

Dear Robert

The purpose of my comment is not to arrange for counselling nor for anything from you personally. What I hoped for was that you could give me a pointer to perhaps assist. I do not want to take up too much of your time and I have therefore decided to describe in the shortest number of words our predicament.

My wife (69 years old) suffers from a very sore shoulder as older people tend to get. Her condition is called Osteoarthritis and it occurs when the cartilage that cushions the ends of bones in the joint to deteriorate and become inflamed. My wife’s pain is severe and besides the physical pain she also suffers psychological pain as a result of her thoughts and beliefs around this matter. As her husband (76 years old) it pains me deeply to see her suffer and obviously deteriorate as a result of the many pain medicines that she has to consume and the long-term effects of overusing these medicines. I also suffer psychologically as I feel that as her husband, I should be able to help her to fund the operation that would be required to set her on the path of healing again.

In South Africa, where we live, you either have medical aid (I think in your country you refer to this as medical insurance) or you must look at the government medical health services for help. Unfortunately, the government services do not perform operation unless you break something, or you are involved in an accident which would require an operation. If the situation is not life threatening, they will not assist except for the provision of strong pain and anti-inflammatory medicines. It would cost about $30 000 do have such an operation done privately.

My thinking was that you may be aware of one or more affluent people from your country who would be willing to consider helping us. So, all I ask of you is to think for a moment of someone that you may think that we can approach that will not hurt them financially to give the assistance that we require.

I have gone short on the explanation as to why we have landed in a situation that in our older years we do not have the means to help ourselves. If further particulars are required, they will be gladly given.

Thanks for reading this email and considering whether there is someone that you can refer us to. Please note that I love my wife very much and that there is absolutely nothing that I will not do to come to her assistance.

Regards

Tonie Heyneke

zheynekie@gmail.com

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