I really got more than I bargained for when I began attending Tai Chi Classes with Sifu Roosevelt Gainey and grateful that I did.  My health has improved dramatically and for me amazingly so.  I spent lot of time running back and forth to doctors for various ailments. The main ailment for which I came to class was for a split index nail that would bleed and hurt.  The doctor said that he would need to remove the nail and nail bed because a healthy nail would never grow back.  Sifu said that I did not need to have the surgery however, if I did have the nail removed, a new and healthy nail would grow if I kept the nail bed.  I decided to just have the nail removed.  A new nail did grow.   It is becoming increasingly healthy and strong.  The scar tissue is shrinking as well.

Medications for worsening allergies were becoming less effective, especially itchy, irritated eyes.  Often I had joint pain in my feet, hips, knees, hand and back.  I had been given different diagnoses.  I would fall asleep very easily and frequently.  I developed severe eczema, which affected most of my body causing constant itching, skin discoloration, and hardening of my skin on my arms as well as reactions to foods, chemicals and certain fabrics.  Sifu really worked with me intensely, including having me to do a lot of flexing, and changing the foods I ate and how I ate them.  As I write this, I am still surprised that I got relief from all these ailments.   My body had been slowly breaking down. I am medication-free and my body has more strength, stamina, flexibility, energy and lightness than I can recall. Weight loss has also been a great benefit.  I am learning how everything is interconnected and about areas that need to and can be healed by just following what Sifu says to do.  In addition, to my life being changed by attending classes, Sifu instructed me in how to use energy facilitation to help my aunt heal herself when she was hospitalized with a staph infection.  It is amazing how she overcame it, how she determined she is and that she continues work out with me periodically.