1 September 2001
Jill Rushton
Auckland, New Zealand
 

I would like to share with you, some knowledge about a product for the relief of pain, that has helped me tremendously to cope and conquer the pain in my life.

I don’t think I need to tell you that Pain is 'the Pain' in our lives. What would you give to be able to sleep the night through or sit the day through in comfort? Could you put a price or value on this? I don’t think so. It is intangible.

Four out of every five people suffer from some sort of pain in the back. Were we born to sleep on a FLAT SLEEP SURFACE? Were we born to walk upright? Our spines are not straight, they are curved. Do you know what supports our poor old spine? Well, it is the muscles and this is where the Klass Vaki comes in

For many many years, I have suffered from back pain. Diagnosed with so many different things wrong, the list becomes never ending. Putting it all into a nutshell, my spine is not only disintegrating but so are my hips.

In my younger and teenage years, I was a Provincial Swimmer, Hockey Goal-Keeper, and Gymnast. I also played Squash. My life was endless days of intense training, 7 days a week, 363 days a year until I reached the age of 19years, when I was told to give up all sport. Imagine what I felt when I was told by the specialist, "Jill if you fall in the wrong position when you are playing hockey, you could become paralyzed."

My pain story started at the tender age of about 13 years old when I jumped off a steep embankment with my hockey pads on, landing hard and without bending my knees on impact. Oh, the pain was excruciating. From there my troubles began. I was put into hospital, into traction, had physio, went to a chiropractor and had cortisone injected straight into my spine, three times a week for months. Then on and off for the years that followed.

I went from specialist to specialist, and eventually was told by one, that when I got to the age of 40 I would need to have a spinal fusion. I often wondered if there would ever be an end to this dark tunnel I was in. At the age of 22, doctors and specialists finally told me that the pain was all in my head.

How many of you have been told that? I am sure it is not just me!

How many have been told, "Your marriage is on the rocks," when, take note, I had only been married barely six months. All I was given was tablets and more tablets.

Tablets don’t fix pain. They only dull it. I had enough tablets to start a chemist's shop. The older I got, the worse off my spine became. I remember thinking to myself, do I have to live with this pain for the rest of my life?

Nothing helped until I found the Klass Vaki nearly 14years ago. My Medical Aid Society even paid for it. Here I must admit, once I thought I was better, I would take it off my bed, then a few days or so later, it would go back onto my bed. This I did for at least 5 years, never sticking to sleeping on it. Why you would ask? Well, I was hard-headed and wanted to think I was better! Yep, so I thought!

When coming to NZ just over 8 years ago, I again loaned my Klass Vaki out to a friend. However, at the beginning of last year, I did myself major back damage. I was doing aerobics 4 times a week, some days twice a day, I came home and did one of the stretches. Crack. Crunch. An enormous sharp pain and I collapsed. My husband carried me to bed and called the doctor.

I was told, "Oh, perhaps you've slipped a disc."

For the next two weeks, I went through hell and I tried to find my Klass Vaki. Note well, Jill thinks she does not need it every time she gets better and lends it out. The end to that story was that my Klass Vaki is somewhere in New Zealand and not traceable, so I had to battle on without it.

I became basically bedridden, had to be carried to the toilet, be bathed, you name it. I was helpless. For 3 months they kept saying my back would get better and eventually after nothing happened, doctors decided to do an MRI scan. Well, the damage I had caused myself was so great that they had to operate! I had collapsed 4 vertebrae, and when that part of the spinal column had collapsed, it had pulled the nerve out of the spinal column. Now, they had to form a tunnel to protect the nerve.

When I came out of hospital, after the operation I again asked for my Klass Vaki back, but my friends couldn’t remember to whom they had loaned it! For months after the operation, I battled. By this time it was almost Xmas. For the whole of last year I had looked and walked like a woman who has had a stroke. I dragged the left side of my body and limped badly. Talk about pain, oh wow! it was excruciating. I needed a Klass Vaki.

I was desperate! Eventually, I phoned a friend in South Africa and told her where I had bought my original Klass Vaki, some eight or nine years previously. Thank goodness, Klass Vaki had not moved. Luckily, they were still in the same street in a Suburb of Cape Town called Kuilsriver, and in the same shop. I immediately ordered one and they air-freighted it over to New Zealand for me.

At the end of November, when my Klass Vaki finally arrived, it was put straight onto my bed. Within a few days, I was able to sleep, a bit better. By the middle of January I was walking a little better, but still with a heavy limp and foot drag. Within 2 months, I was walking better, but sitting at my computer all day was hell. I had to use my desk to lift me up and move my left leg with my arm to get it going. By this time Klass Vaki had re-opened after the South African Festive season, and I phoned them to please send me the full chair support so that I could sit on the cushion wherever I was.

What a luxury when the cushions arrived! Within a month of using the combination of being supported both day and night, I started having positive effects. I was still limping but every day, it was a little less. I usually get up and pour my husband a drink in the evening. One particular evening, not realizing it, I got up and the next minute I was in the kitchen. All I could say was, "Baby I can walk, I can walk!" and that was my turning point. I was walking without a limp. Yes, I still had that burning pain in my leg and under my feet, but over time, that has gradually diminished to a pain I can tolerate. I have gone from strength to strength since.

I cannot say I have NO pain, but what a difference!

But guess what? There is another twist to this tale. By April, I thought I was really on the mend and once again, I loaned my Klass Vaki out. I was actually working something like 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, and the strain started taking effect so that I would cry at night. After two weeks of not having my Klass Vaki, I backtracked fast in my health, back to limping and the pain.

When I asked the gentleman for my Klass Vaki back, the man answered and said, "Sorry, if you want it back, you can take my wife back with it," so Jill stood tall and acted bravely. I felt sorry for his wife as she was also in pain, so did not push them and tried to carry on to the best of my ability.

In May, the container with the first shipment of Klass Vaki products was delivered. My husband and I unpacked the whole container. By that evening there were tears and more tears. That night guess who had a Klass Vaki back on her bed? Yes me! I put my pride in my pocket, took a Klass Vaki out of stock and put it onto my bed.

Believe me, there it will remain until my dying day. Now I say, "I have learnt my lesson. Sorry! From this day on, my Klass Vaki remains on my bed."

Today my pain is a numb pain. Yes it is still there but I have not taken morphine or heavy drugs, roughly since February. The pain in my leg is almost gone, just a dull ache at times. Some days it might be worse, depending on what activities I have done, but I am WALKING! without dragging my left side. I am able to live my life without being a pain to the rest of the family.

Just a small note here: I was on amitriptyline HCL TA 10mg, 4 Tablets a night for a couple of years. I have stopped taking amitriptyline now, and have not used the drug since I have been sleeping on the Klass Vaki Support. One Doctor tried to say it was because of my weight loss. I was quick to point out that for the record I stopped taking the drug after I had been sleeping on the K.V. Support and, at that stage, I had not started my weight loss program. Now I can walk a good distance without any pain and when I say walk, I do not mean a slow wander but at a quick pace.

Two months ago, I was actually helping my husband bore 1.5 metre holes with a boring machine for our new deck! And this is all thanks to my Klass Vaki Body Supports. Everywhere you sit in our home has one on, and I might add, even my husband sleeps on one now. He who slipped a disc and said I was imagining that Klass Vaki could help him! Although he has no back problems otherwise, he is finding himself waking up more refreshed and relaxed in the morning. Anyone can and will benefit from the use of a Klass Vaki.

Klass Vaki has changed my life for the better. I thank Petro Groenwald every day for her wonderful invention. Just on 18 months later, I am a proud user with a life, all thanks to my Klass Vaki.

Now, please let me tell you in brief, about the Klass Vaki. My baby!!!

A lady who became bedridden after playing her first day's game of golf designed and developed it. Petro was a fashion ramp model. I have copies of her torment and the hell that she went through.

Klass Vaki has been designed scientifically. For the past 30 years, this product has been trialled and tested with research worldwide and the research still carries on.

For PAIN sufferers, our beds are our worst enemies. Tests have shown this.

The Red Blocks.

These represent Pain suffering patients who were made to sleep on a FLAT SURFACE, being the conventional mattress. The longer the patients slept on the flat sleep surface, pain levels increased, heart & pulse rate increased, they developed broken sleep, tossing and turning. The end result, was they felt like they had been ridden over by a bus.

The Blue Blocks

These represent the same patients who were then placed, for the same amount of time, on a Klass Vaki. The longer they slept, their comfort level rose, yet their heart & pulse rate went down as they became more comfortable. They woke up refreshed and relaxed ready to start the day. Ready to face the day. Refreshed, ready to cope with the bit of pain that would eventually develop during the day.

Each one of those patients decreased their drug intake. I can vouch for that. I don’t know when last I took any strong drugs. Yes I do have pain, but it is a pain that I can cope with.

Klass Vaki is scientifically designed to hug and support those poor tired aching muscles. When you sleep, your muscles can sleep. And, what is the best medicine to make you better? Yes, it is SLEEP.

What happens when one is relaxed during sleep? Your body generates heat. On a FLAT SLEEP SURFACE where does the heat go? ………out. On a Klass Vaki when your body generates heat, this heat is used in the self-healing of your muscles, the relaxing of muscle spasm.

Overseas, Klass Vaki is being used in hospitals, ICU’s, Hospices, Fibro groups. Cancer Societies, you name it. For those that spend a considerable amount of time in a bed, it has been proven that Klass Vaki diminishes Bed Sores.

It is actually being paid for by Medical Aid Societies, similar to our Southern Cross, and by the equivalent of our ACC. The more we can get together in New Zealand, to convince ACC and medical insurance companies they should support the use of Klass Vaki, because of the sharp reduction in other medical costs, the more we will win! I am determined to have this result eventually and am working hard for this.

Thoughts for Today
I would like to share with you, some thoughts from users of my Klass Vakis.
This is food for thought from Dennis: "When the body was forming in it's mother's womb, was the body developed for a flat bed, with a hard and straight surface? I don't think so. The body was developed, encompassed by fluid. The Klass Vaki would be the closest thing available to the fluid of the womb, allowing a human body to become suspended in any sleeping position."
Brian, my husband, now thinks of his K.V. as "the Klass Vaki is the Rolls Royce on the road to freedom from pain."
My way of thinking is, "It is my cocoon, my egg, my domain. I don’t have to keep my spine or muscles in place. My Klass Vaki does it for me. My K.V. is my solace, my support, my freedom from pain."

So now I ask my first question again.

What value can you put on fixing pain, or helping your body to cope with your pain?

Pain is expensive, the drugs we have to take, the cost of physios, chiropractors, traction. You name it. It all costs money.

During the day, we sit at a computer or desk. The pain starts in our bottom, then gradually goes to the lower back, then onto the neck, into your head. Wouldn’t it be great, if you could work all day, and still feel alright to go out in the evening and have dinner, and not having to crash into bed from pain?

Once again Klass Vaki can help you. The chair and back supports are designed to hug, support and comfort your muscles and spine. After a long day's work, you can look forward to going home in a better mood. What price would you pay for that?

Pain affects our lives in so many ways, emotionally saps all your energy, eats into your finances, drains you, relationships suffer, and everyone suffers. You can even become isolated like me and just hibernate because I could not face the world and would rather just be left alone.

What is stopping you from making a choice? A choice to change your life once and for all? I am offering a 30 day money back guarantee, not only because I believe in my Klass Vaki, but because it gives you the opportunity to try it out in the comfort of your home

What do you have to lose? The only answer is - Pain.

Thank you for allowing me to share my story with you. To one and all I wish you a better and happier, PAIN-free future. 

The following are the medically diagnosed conditions Jill suffers from - Ed