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By Ilze van Pletzen - AIM Director
It is because of my story that a passion for health and wellness was stirred within me. To give people hope and strength for their future because one’s past can never determine your future. Fifty one years ago on 11 Feb 1971 a little girl with only 4 toes on her one foot and 2 shoe sizes smaller than the other one was born. Not knowing what her future may hold and growing up with a disability that caused her affected leg to grow significantly slower with no calf muscles and a horseshoe kidney, life as a child was challenging and hard. She was exposed to numerous operations where the simple act of walking was something that needed to be learnt from anew every time. The side effects of all these operations as well as the countless medications administered to her marked her childhood years with great vulnerability and a severely compromised immune system. In her late teens and early adulthood she was also diagnosed with numerous allergies, yuppie flu, Coxsackie virus, cysts on her ovaries, a lump in her breast and consequently needed to undergo an early hysterectomy. The list of health and life challenges however did not end here. In 2010 she had neck surgery due to her birth impairment and in 2015 her husband and love of her life was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Does this sound like the happily 8
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ever after fairy tale any girl dreams of? The one where she is swept off her feet and rides off into the sunset with her prince on a white horse? Yet this is my story and I can proudly and gratefully say it is my story of hope. And that is why I can boldly testify that your story, how devastating and disappointing it may seem, it can in fact be a story of hope and inspiration for others. In 2019 I was re-introduced to The AIM Companies and I had an intense desire to know everything and more about this amazing company and their products. Everything just suddenly made clear sense to me and today I have immense gratitude for having had an invitation to attend a talk by a Chairmans Club Member from AIM. Little did I know that this would also be the year that my husband’s cancer would once again return. We were disappointed, disheartened and filled with much fear. However, I decided to face my fears and to gain all the knowledge possible by attending meetings and reading whatever I could find. I started to understand how wonderfully the body has been created
