Penny Pijnenberg
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And when I was, each time when I, or the more I was there, I looked around and I thought, must be 70% of the people living here that are women.
And they all had similar things.
And, you know, you never, you don't get into these care homes anymore just with one thing.
And my mother, she had rheumatoid arthritis.
She had a severe heart disease.
She had a pacemaker.
She had macular degeneration, which I think is linked to lack of oxygen.
And then about a year before she died, she was also diagnosed with Alzheimer's, which is also linked to that.
I always say the only thing she didn't have was osteoporosis, but I think the rheumatoid arthritis was quite bad.
But looking around, a lot of women had Alzheimer's.
They had osteoporosis.
They were all working with it.
My sister was saying a lot of them have the UTIs.
And...
I think it was about four months after she died when I saw your show in London in October 24.
And in the first half of the show, you had this picture of like what happens when your hormones kind of basically get lower and lower.
And you showed this picture of this old woman being hunched and dead.
I just sat there and I was like, you're just describing my mother.
And I realized, actually more and more I realized after she died, I think everything that she was suffering was probably the lack of hormones and looking at all the other women.
And I recently saw