SINGAPORE: Nine years ago, Mdm Lee May La, 64, nearly lost her life.
She had gone to Australia to attend her son’s graduation when she had a sudden onset of meningitis – an infection of the membranes that cover the brain and the spinal cord – which left her unconscious in an Australian hospital.
For two months, she could not walk. And with the medication she had been taking, she started suffering from reduced bone density.
“The doctor (told) me, you need vitamin D,” she said, which is why she joined her fledgling neighbourhood community garden as a full-time volunteer in 2012.
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When asked if she found the work taxing at first, as she had been recovering from her infection, Mdm Lee, who is now retired, said: “Once you enjoy, you don’t feel…
