By triggering a fortunate set of events.
Around the mid-'90s my dad had terrible problems with his back, a recurrence of pain from a teenage injury. This Roma fortune teller used to visit my mother in her workplace from time to time. Out of charity more than any particular belief my mother would throw her a few quid and she’d read my mother’s fortune.
In one reading in 1995 the fortune teller went through various aspects of my mother’s life, stopped on my dad and told her he was very sick. She said, oh yes his back is giving him bother, and the teller was adamant, no it’s not his back, there’s something else seriously wrong*.
My mother again was never a huge believer in the woman’s powers but it suitably upset her that she promptly sent my dad for a battery of tests/scans etc. the full diagnostic :). Tests turned up a life threatening aneurysm that required immediate treatment. He was admitted promptly for surgery from which he made a full recovery.
*This of course was probably just blind luck on the reader’s and our parts or she was using some ability most other people aren’t aware of.
