1996 London – I suffered from terrible migraines. I was a walking log, seeing floating spots, feeling hammers smashing my skull, yet numb on one side of my then slim body :-). Nothing made any sense. Sometimes different areas would hurt more and different areas would get numb, also in varying degrees.
It was very scary. It crippled me and I knew something was very wrong. There were days when I was so ill, I could only lie in bed. And even in bed, I would suffer as no painkiller would stop the numbness or pain. I cried a lot. And skipped work a lot.
I had countless tests done in the UK (thank goodness they were all free since I was under the National Health Service – NHS) but they couldn’t seem to diagnose the problem. At one point, they suggested it could have been a deteriorating kidney.
Things were so bad that I came back to KL and saw more Doctors. And would you believe it, a Malaysian neurologist (albeit trained abroad) finally deciphered the medical cryptogram that I was suffering from hemiplegic migraines. You cannot imagine what relief it is to finally know why you are going through what you are going through – a pressure cooker with it’s lid just untightened.
For your interest, hemiplegic migraine develops after years and years of stress. So CHILL……..people. I’m serious.
The next step was treatment. The neurologist fed me a cocktail of drugs that I had to digest long term. They worked but I felt like one of those blow up dolls all the time. Very stoned. So I stopped them after a few months and never went back.
I was lucky that the migraines miraculously started getting less and less. I would count the days that I wouldn’t get an attack and when it lessened to one attack in three months, I knew I was definitely getting better. Of course, at the time they didn’t have botox for migraines. The experience was so traumatic that I would have considered anything!
**************************************************************************Who is Mamapumpkin?
Mamapumpkin spent 7 years in London committing crimes to gain her Bartlett degree in Architecture. She then spent 7 years as a Stay At Home Mom raising her children as documented in this blog of over 15 years thereafter returning to the Corporate World stronger than ever as the Country Director of a British Multinational. She sets out to prove to all, that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.
Mamapumpkin has not only grown corporate businesses successfully in the past but has grown not one but TWO network marketing businesses in the notorious MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) industry, achieving success in under 2 years. She believes in the MLM business model but realises the DRASTIC PITFALLS and great stigma attached to it, understanding EXACTLY WHY the majority would shy away (or RUN for their lives) from ANY MLM business. But open your eyes and take time to understand it intellectually, remove your hang-ups, confirm your research, and you may just want to seize an opportunity. She did. And no, she never went about chasing people for sales. She had a sophisticated system work for her through technology and a smartphone.
She now impacts lives authentically with proven strategies amassed through the last decade of her own transformation offering online coaching programmes and always supports the underprivileged. She believes that we can all have a life of our own desires to enable real contribution into the world. But first, one needs to understand what this all means.
A beautiful life without limits.
If you wish to learn some tools to propel your life forward guaranteed, be brave enough to make contact as her life's purpose is to build people. She operates through a discovery call after which she will commit to helping you. Or not.
Most lose out on an opportunity because they are afraid they would be sold to, conned or whatever fear resides in their brain without even trying. And that's on them.
Mamapumpkin is a living testimony that women really can have a lot. Being financially and time free has enabled her to travel the world anytime, anywhere, doing anything, and she spends most of her days with her children, having fun, and supporting others wherever she can. Also having fun.
