Gran preparing to die left family goodbye notes - then made 'miraculous' recovery
Carole had been in and out of A&E for months but it wasn't until her daughter discovered a new medical device that she got to the bottom of her condition
Carole said her friends used to cry when they visited her because of the state she was in
(Image: Jam Press)
A woman with deteriorating health was 'prepared to die' and writing out her last goodbyes to her family when her daughter made a last-ditch attempt for something that could help. Now Carole's 'miraculous' recovery has given her a new lease of life.
She has even managed to move out of the care home she had been forced into. Carole's health issues first began after her husband's death in 2016 when she started overworking herself to keep busy.
When she eventually retired at 65, the Devon local could feel her health fading fast. She told NeedToKnow: 'I noticed my bladder and gut had both stopped working, and I was really struggling to live comfortably. Over the next few years, I became increasingly ill, fatigued, and debilitated, also living with a lot of gut pain.
'I was so depressed and anxious as I had no idea what was happening to me, and the doctors had no answers. I became reliant upon antidepressants and different drugs.'
Carole from Devon was penning her goodbyes when she started her 'miraculous' recovery
(Image: Jam Press)
By late 2023, Carole - she gave no last name - decided to move into a residential care home as she found herself journeying to A&E every few months at this point. She said: 'Every time I went to them, they would check me over and just send me straight back home.
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'I was constantly being told it was just anxiety, but it felt as though someone's hand was constantly squeezing my heart. My mobility had drastically declined, and I was in a poor state both physically and mentally.
'I knew I was going to die. I just felt so sick and like no one could fix it. I decided to write poems to my family as a way of saying goodbye.'
But Carole's daughter Anna refused to give up and with a background in the health industry, the 42 year old believed she knew where to look. She eventually found a wearable medical device called Nurosym, which stimulates the vagus nerve, a vital connection between your brain, heart and digestive system.
In November, a full year after moving to the care home, Carole got her Nurosym and first started noticing her sleeping patterns getting better within a matter of days. This quickly snowballed and left her pleading with the staff to let her out of her wheelchair.
She said: 'When you look into it, the vagus nerve was the answer to all of my conditions, but there seems to be an ignorance to it. The doctors just never mentioned it.
'It was miraculous, everything just started to get better! After my sleep initially started to improve within just a couple of days, I started to see there might be a chance for me to get some quality of life back, but it just kept on improving.
'I was starting to worry the care home staff as everyone really just sat around in their chairs, and I had only been in wheelchairs since I came, but suddenly I wanted to walk around and just kept asking them to let me out!'
Carole has now been able to move back home and enjoy an active life with her family
(Image: Jam Press)
Carole started reducing the number of medications she took and was able to move back into her own home in April. Her recovery was so transformational it prompted Anna to buy her own Nurosym and try it out for herself.
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She said: 'Mum's not susceptible to placebo at all, this is something that has really worked for her, and changed her life. She has no side effects anymore from the ridiculous number of drugs she was having to take, and we desperately want people to know there is a way for people to get better in a non-invasive way.
'I've even invested in my own device as I suffer from anxiety. For me, my sleep improved within just a few weeks, I don't get this sinking feeling in my stomach anymore, and I just have such a positive frame of mind that it's completely changed my outlook.'
Carole shared: 'My friends used to come and see me and just cry; now they're still crying when they visit, but it's for a completely different reason.'
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