START NOW - A beautiful story of how life changes once you start walking...
This is a true story of Eula Weaver. She suffered her first severe heart attack at 77. The doctor gave her several medicines and told her to go home and wait for the inevitable - a fatal heart attack. Another doctor told her, "Eula, you can do that, or you can do something about your condition. You'll feel a lot better if you start to walk."
Eula went home to walk but it seemed impossible. Sometimes when she walked only fifty feet, her leg muscles would cramp, and she would have to be carried home. She din't give up and decided to give it a try.
Each day she tried to walk a little more than the day before. When the neighbors saw Eula in jogging clothes, hobbling along, they thought she was losing her mind.
Soon she was walking a mile a day. Within two years Mrs. Weaver was getting up at 5.30 every morning to trot several blocks and jog a mile around the track. If she couldn't get to the track, she rode the stationary bicycle in her bedroom as far as twenty miles, often reading the newspaper while she pedaled.
At age 85, she was invited to run in the Senior Olympics. A gold medal awarded to her in that race. Some of Eula's accomplishments in the Senior Olympics were winning the following:
1. 800 meters 85-89 7:03.0 Eula Weaver (85) 1974
2. 1,500 meters 90-94 17:15.0 Eula Weaver (90) 1979
Mrs. Eula Weaver went on to live for 101 years and passed away peacefully. Not bad for a lady who was told to go home and wait to die 24 years before... "A little progress each day adds up to big results"