I was watching a YouTube video about how to be a better person. The woman said one of our biggest stumbling blocks is not remembering the good things we do for others. If we have one bad experience during our day and yet help three people, the thing our mind focuses on is the negative and not the positive.
As this woman was speaking, a memory suddenly floated through my mind. Many years ago, I was lying in bed. I had recently had to drop out of medical school. I could do little more than lay in my bed with my computer propped up on a medical school textbook. I did endless research on various health afflictions, herbs, vitamins and nutrition. I was trying to figure out how to heal myself. Moreover, one fascination I have had for many years is cancer. I began researching cancer and ways to mitigate the effects of the affliction.
My mom hired a woman to come to our home and clean every few months. One day, the woman told us about her sister who had cancer. She was in extreme pain. Nothing seemed to help. The sister was in absolute agony.
Instantly, I remembered things from medical school and my recent cancer research. Cancer is a hungry critter. Glucose and vitamin C are very similar in structure. When glucose runs out, the cancer will start destroying vitamin C. Cancer patients who are experiencing pain are usually vitamin C deficient. Vitamin C is used in numerous cellular processes. A vitamin C deficiency will cause severe pain. To correct the problem, high doses of vitamin C are needed. It is best given intravenously.
I went online and found a research institute which outline the importance of vitamin C and how to correct a deficiency. I explained to the woman her sister is probably vitamin C deficient. Vitamin C infusions will most likely decrease the sister’s pain. I gave the woman a printed copy of the research. The woman left. Shortly thereafter, the woman got a different job. She stopped cleaning for us.
Several years later, I was at a local establishment. There was our old cleaning person. As soon as the woman saw me, she raced over to me and hugged me. She thanked me over and over again for the information about vitamin C. Her sister was started on vitamin C and her pain dramatically lessened. The sister died six months later, but the woman said she was incredibly grateful for the information I gave her. Although her sister died, she did not died in agony. For that she was very thankful for.
As the woman was telling me all this, I did not remember having any conversation about vitamin C. If this woman was thanking me, I must have helped her…but my memory was blank.
Over the next several hours, I kept trying to remember. I then vaguely remembered the day so many years before. As I kept trying to remember, the details began coming into focus. I then started recalling the details to mind.
If I would have never seen the cleaning woman again or if she would not have thanked me, I would probably never have remembered giving the woman information about vitamin C. I would have never known the research helped lessen her sister’s pain. There are many bad things I remember, but this one good deed has all but slipped my mind. I had forgotten about it again until this woman on YouTube said we often forget the good. We do more good deeds than what we remember.
