I Told You So

Samatha decided not to travel in the summer of 2025 and instead focus on improving her health.

She had scheduled multiple doctor visits to get ahead of her Chronic illness. She discovered a couple of years ago that she had hypertension.

Samatha was an active middle-aged woman. She enjoyed playing tennis with her early 20s daughter who was in College.

Two summers ago, she was mowing her lawn. She had to borrow her brother's lawn mower because she could no longer afford the lawn summer services. Her younger brother, Kent, brought over his lawn mower on a very hot summer day.

She had no choice but to mow her lawn that day before her brother picked it up at the end of the day. The grass in the backyard was almost 6 inches high. She had been mowing for ten minutes when she felt she was going to pass out.

She stopped mowing and went inside her cool house. She took out a cold bottle of water from the fridge and took a couple of sips. She went into the bathroom and collapsed on the floor. When she came out of her blackout, she went back outside and continued mowing.

She took many breaks before she was able to finish mowing the lawn.

Her brother did come back to pick up the lawn mower at the end of that day. She did not make a big deal of her collapse.

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Another summer, she started using public bus transportation. Her house was three blocks from the bus stop. She carried a heavy load of groceries from the bus stop to her house. She was fortunate; she got home before she collapsed. She never told anybody until she started seeing her doctor regularly.

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Samatha's blood Pressure was almost always high when she went to visit her doctor. Samatha had a mini stroke, but she recovered from it because she made sure she drank enough water and did yoga exercises.

This summer, she was very sad that her doctor was moving away to a different county due to changes in the healthcare system. Her doctor enrolled her in a program that tracks her blood pressure daily for six months.

The doctor wanted her to undergo blood work to monitor if her new heart medication is working.

Sadly, there were evil medical staff who administered the blood work.

A young lady appears to be in her early 20s, sporting a devilish grin on her face.

She took her sweet time poking at Samatha's arms to extract blood for the tubes. At first, no blood was coming out. She tried again, a few seconds later, and blood came out. The girl was still grinning devilishly.

Before this happened, Samantha's inner voice was telling her not to get any blood work that day. When she entered the blood laboratory facility, not a single patient was there.

The receptionist was looking at her strangely when she signed in. The staff did not want any patients to come to the facility. They place venom on the needles they use.

Poor Samantha, she had no idea that summer would be her last. Samatha's choice not to go to the ER when her right arm blew up with red swelling. The Venom poison spread throughout her body.

Her blood pressure was 165/100. The blood pressure monitor instructed me to go straight to the emergency department. She was feeling tired and disoriented. She tried calling the ambulance but dialed the wrong number.

Samatha waited too long to seek help, and her blood pressure was 55/50.

If she had listened to her inner voice, she would still be alive.