Posted by: ladybard | July 12, 2009

MENOPAUSAL “MADNESS”

This is a comment to express disgust at Dr. Eric Braverman’s reiteration of the term “Madness” in context of the Menopause on the TV show “The Doctors.”

Braverman is a nutritional parvenue – jumped on the bandwagon when he realised its a 40 billion dollar per year industry.

Of course Menopausal women are “mad,” but mad as in ANGRY! As soon as a tiny touch of snow shows on the mountain, women are demoted, dehumanised, de-valued, belittled, abused, and otherwise negated in every possible way.

New York, of course, is the capital of this. Despite glossy movies promoting New York real estate, it’s still the capital city of abuse in my book. That is, on the Eastern seaboard, USA.

Of course, hormones fluctuate and the body goes through profound changes – usually at a time when: children are leaving home or getting in trouble, or having their own kids, or best friends or family are dying from cancer, or breaking up, or hubby has traded in for a young model, or the promotion has been given to the cute new intern who also happens to be a champion acrobat and cheerleader, and thinks the boss is “soooo coool,” etc., etc.

The miracle of womens’ resilience is that so few actually go off the rails at such a time, and if they do lose it, it’s probably due to mood changing prescription meds to which the body becomes accustomed (rebound effect) requiring Dr. Feelgood to keep upping the dose.

If a woman is experiencing duress at such a time, the best help is via Homeopathy, and/or a therapist. A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved – we didn’t need Freud to tell us that, and just the act of being listened to can be therapeutic in itself.

Homeopathy can help the body balance itself and a competent Homeopathist will spot indicator of thyroid or pancreatic malfunction, both critical at such a phase, and either treat or make an appropriate referral.  It is so easy to reach for the candy jar when tired or upset, and a damaged thyroid or pancreas will just aggravate the situation.

These can be addressed by the Homeopathist in the context of the “totality of symptoms” or s/he will discuss your preference with regard to treatment.

Personally I’m happy when my patients return with lab reports, as I know that up the road, those labs will prove Homeopathy’s extraordinary power to cure.

Physically, start an exercise program. This may include walking or a return to a favorite sport. It has huge benefits – enhancing your oxygen intake (carbon dioxide increases irritability) improving circulation and cardiac function, drawing nutrition and healing to the extremities, elasticises the muscles, and generally elevating your sense of well-being.

Don’t do the same exercise every day, aside from warm ups, unless you’re already a trained athlete. Changing routine, eg, walking one day, biking another, allows expression to different sets of muscles and improves muscle tone, posture and stamina.

Nutrition is vital at such a time. A word of caution: lettuce does not provide much nutrition, but it serves as a “scrubber,” drawing toxins from the intestines and providing gentle bulk.

Make sure you are taking in plenty of fresh fruit, juices and vegetables as well as protein and vitamin B12. It is vitally important to have your B12 levels checked as B12 absorption diminishes with age, and many of the symptoms interpreted as Alzheimers, eg., short term memory loss, repetition, etc., or the rigid gait of Parkinson’s are often indicative of B12 deficiency, which is treatable. More to come.

To your good health.

Posted by: ladybard | December 23, 2008

Homeopathy and the German Sea Captain

The German Sea Captain with Parkinsons

A patient died a few months ago, always a sad occasion. However, Captain “Hans” had a good innings. 94 years of age.

During World War II he was given command of laying mines across the English Channel. After the war he assisted the Allies in the location and retrieval of said mines. Liked the English a lot.

Until I found a Classical Homeopathist, childhood and adolescence were fraught with suffering. Not being very saintly, my inspirations were WWII commandos and Douglas Bader types, and I was definitely tuned into the “Don’t mention the war” episode of Fawlty Towers, the one not sold to German Television.

Yet it was an extraordinary medical science, developed by a German doctor, Samuel Hahnemann,that saved my life, gave me my first experience with good health, and allowed me to eventually assist so many other people, otherwise considered incurable. Hahnemann inspired most major developments in orthodox medicine, such as genetics, immunology, neurology, psychosomatics, etc., and was the true genius of the 2nd millennium.

So when Captain Hans’ daughter called me to assist him two years ago, I responded with gratitude.

This strong, amazingly fit man was experiencing fine tremors, and was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Could I do anything? I said I would try, that I was hopeful, because of his good health, careful lifestyle, and because he had declined orthodox medicine. Our remedies are most effective on a “clear field.”  

Within two months of treatment the tremors had ceased completely and he was asymptomatic for his remaining years.

I have many such cases in my files, of cases considered “incurable,” that quickly responded to Homeopathic therapies.

It helped that he had led a clean, active life, adhered to a nourishing, healthy diet, no bad habits, and had a sturdy constitution.

That certainly contributed to the rapidity of his recovery.

It is tragic, however, that medicine/pharmatech has relocated to the “Island of Dr. Moreau” in a desperate, futile attempt to create an expensive treatment for a disease they do not understand. They do understand, however, that Western Governments will pick up the tab for the research and treatment and the population will look away when the little frozen human embryos are tossed into the garbage or dissolved in acid, to destroy evidence of the sick and ghastly experiments presently conducted in the name of science.

Posted by: ladybard | November 12, 2008

THE SCIENCE OF HOMEOPATHY VS MAGGOTS AND LEECHES

Homeopathy and science vs maggots and leeches

(copyright 2008 D McNamara)

By

Deirdre McNamara, Doctor of Homeopathy

A writer for Alive recently described Homeopathy as “Magical thinking” and therefore out of bounds for Catholics.  I guess she knew better than Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

Theological proscriptions are best left to Benedict XVI.  Homeopathic medicine is the only Western system 100% consistent with the magisterium of the Church. Developed in 1792, sci-tech

began to catch up in the late twentieth century, plundering our knowledge and systems without any real results, their labs littered with tortured animals and little embryos, poor little human babies murdered in vitro or in vivo.

Homeopathy has already proven its ability to cure the incurable; to treat antibiotic resistant disease; to eliminate viral load in Hep C patients, and to facilitate human reproduction without invasive and ignominious procedures where other systems have failed.  We have outshone allopathy consistently and statistically, becoming a threat to Big Pharma with its emphasis on “maintenance” Medicine.  We deserve equal time and funding to re-establish Homeopathy’s curative properties.  They are already proven.

Personally I’m getting fed up of MDs altering their “untreatable/inoperable” diagnoses after a patient returns with “mysterious remission”  following consultation with a Homeopathist.  Here’s another clarification; those “mysterious remissions” are often due to homeopathic intervention.  It is sad that trust between patient and physician is at such a low ebb that patients believe it necessary to conceal their visits to Homeopathists.  However 64% of UK GPs refer chronic patients to Homeopaths, so, unmolested by big Pharma, allopaths and homeopaths can work symbiotically to elevate patient care while simultaneously lowering costs.

“Mammon” in the form of the Pharmaceutical industry spent millions trying to close us down, but as the wise rabbi Gamaliel declared, “if it is from God it will endure.”  We endured, and rebounded strongly in the seventies and eighties, leading a forty billion dollar industry in gentle, natural adjuncts and forcing a revolution in orthodox medical strategies. Observing this, Pharmatech controlled allopathy hijacked two centuries of Homeopathic research into nutritional and environmental factors in disease, and finally listened to our warnings regarding over-prescribing and antibiotic resistant bacteria.  Too bad they didn’t consult us regarding the use of animal proteins in the feeding of herbivores!

Enter Big Pharma again, with a different strategy:  instead of outright suppression, they invested heavily in confusing the public.  Diabolical!

Before, our patients were well informed.  Now many arrive completely ill informed with confused expectations, and requiring education.  In NYC many arrive angry and defensive after dealing with NY’s aggressive, patient-hostile system.   Educating each patient can be wearying and time consuming.

Back to science.

In 1790 surgeons walked around in blood encrusted clothes; the filthier the clothes, the more distinguished the surgeon.  This meant a high mortality rate for patients, particularly mothers.  The hot tar poured on amputated stumps generally killed all bacteria, and men could use rum and whiskey to get them through systemic infections – not an option for women in childbirth! Some survived prescribed maggots and leeches.  Women, however, had to get through childbirth using barbaric methods of delivery and died at an extraordinary rate from something called puerperal fever transmitted by surgeons to their patients.  Suffering was so acute that many rejected their babies or couldn’t nurse.

Then came Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, a physician and pharmacist. In 1792 a friend was seriously ill with malaria.  He mind noted the similarity of his buddy’s symptoms to the symptoms created by the ingestion of excessive quantities of quinine.

Quinine is also known as Cinchona bark, named for the Countess of Cinchon, Peru who gave it to Jesuit Missionaries who brought it to Europe. It was given to her by a surgeon better known as St. Martin de Porres. Hahnemann referred to Homeopathy as “Gift of a Gracious God.”

Dr. Hahnemann administered Cinchona to his friend who recovered rapidly. Quinine became the standard treatment for Malaria.

Hahnemann and associates set about creating the most comprehensive, best researched medical system of all time.  So far ahead of the science of his day, it has taken 200 years for science and technology to prove the presence of energy fields in the micro-diluted remedies.  Being a “prophetic” scientist, Hahnemann had to work with the limited language of 18th century science.  He led, anticipated and inspired immunology, psychosomatics, the understanding and treatment of mental illness asepsis, environmental and nutritional sciences, and still leads.

Homeopathic medicine has yet to be surpassed, and our remedies have held up for two centuries, yet we are denied resources to systemize our discoveries and document the recoveries of patients diagnosed with incurable disease. When medicine was doctor driven, homeopaths and allopaths enjoyed a collegial rivalry, uniting for optimum service to patient.  NY Life Insurance even gave our patients a discount.  Longer lives, fewer health problems and complications.

Tragically, Homeopathy could probably cut medical costs by 50% with a tenfold improvement in patient care but billions have been poured into orthodoxy, resulting in BSE, MRSA/HIV, etc., and multiple recalls of prescription medicine pushed on the public with falsified research, and a return to leeches and maggots.

Food in NY now has the same slimy taste; this due to the presence of “modified” corn syrup, probably Monsanto’s monopolist variety.  Their lawsuits against America’s farmers has destroyed the indigenous corn supply and the use of the ubiquitous filler, absence of nutrition based flavor heavily disguised with another disgusting product, “chili oil” has led to a nation of obese diabetics who suffer immensely trying one diet after another to lose weight, because their bodies cannot process the genetically modified high “fructose” corn syrup while the well-to-do create a genetically superior sub species with specialty high price foods imported from Europe, Canada, etc.  By the way, Mexico still has over four hundred varieties of corn.  Track the Monsanto jet going south.

Then there’s ethanol.  Anyone smell a rat when Government starts pretending it’s ecologically concerned?  That deal with Brazil will benefit developers as rain-forests are destroyed in order to create fields and clearings for the genetically modified crops.

Then, “science” is now corrupting another species: the safflower – splicing in human genes to create insulin.  It sounds so nice and innocent, but if they weren’t poisoning people with GM corn syrup they wouldn’t need the insulin in the first and second place.  It starts out with human insulin, but God knows where these “Dr. Moreaus” intend to take it.  Look at the discarded human embryos, murdered in the name of Science.  How can these hateful people take human life with such impunity.  If they can do that to babies, how do you think they’ll treat the rest of us?

As Minister for Trade and Enterprise, Ireland’s present Minister for Health brought in representatives of Biotech without any explanation as to research, products, etc.  Isn’t time we started asking serious questions, requiring detailed and specific answers.

Posthumous Papal honors for Dr. Hahnemann would begin to address two centuries of injustice to the devout genius of the second millennium.

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Posted by: ladybard | August 19, 2009

Confirmed responses to Homeopathic protocols.

Homeopathy Works!!!!

Hepatitis C Heroin addicts free of viral load

Hepatitis A patient free of viral load within 10 days – after three months orthodox treatment failed.

Coma Same day recovery

Cellulitis Where antibiotics failed, Homeopathy healed

Asthma Independence from inhalers and steroids/weaning

Allergies Negative or minimised symptoms

PTSD/Trauma Negative or minimised symptoms

Fractures Accelerated healing even in elderly w osteoporosis

Burns Accelerated healing

Chemical burns Accelerated healing

Pneumonia/Pleurisy Rapid recovery (inc Abx resistant patients)

Eschar Overnight healing

PMS Negative or minimised symptoms

Parkinsons Disease Rapid complete recovery in nonegenerian

Developmental Disabilities  Marked improvement in speech and cognitive skills

IBS/Crone’s Disease Asymptomatic.  No false negatives, etc.

Deirdre McNamara, Doctor of Homeopathy, is the first Homeopath to consult in a New York Hospital in almost a century.  She has worked with diverse communities including recovering addicts.

Posted by: ladybard | August 16, 2009

SWINE FLU – Alternative options

Storm in a tea-cup?
Swine flu appeared out of nowhere last Spring, and is now terrorising the world. It’s an odd concotion, comprising avian and porcine viruses – almost like a lab cocktail. The third component escapes my mind right now, but it is all very odd.
It couldn’t have chosen a more convenient vector: American students on spring break in Mexico brought it into the USA, from where it appears to have spread around the world.
Few Mexicans have contracted it. This is unusual. Normally, the indigenous population suffer severely before a flu or virus spreads abroad. Not here, despite the poverty and over-crowding of Mexico’s city and country.
The US Government’s response was initially lackadaisical as if seeing an opportunity to examine the course of an epidemic.
Now it has produced a vaccine – rushed through in a matter of months, derived from the swine flu vaccine of the Ford Administration that cost 25 lives and hundreds of victims to contract Guillaine Barre Syndrome. (GBS)
It’s highly unlikely that squalene had anything to do with GBS; it’s used extensively in cosmetics. It’s time the various far left Governments controlling the Western World stopped treating the public like idiots.
Prevention
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. “ This classic axiom serves us well and comes down to basics: Rest, Hydration, Nutrition. Clean living basically. Nourishing foods; sufficient water – pure or in juices, vitamin supplements – Omega threes and Echinacea strengthen the immune system; clean lettuce serves as an “intestinal scrub” and organic yogurt balances the intestinal flora.
Rest is not always possible; for example, single mothers are the most sleep deprived people on the planet, and need support at the best of times and eat on the run. Vitamin supplements are vital for them…pun intended. Executives work long hours, travel frequently, but dine well and take care of themselves.
Cure
Unlike Hippocrates who described allopathy as “addition and subtraction,” Homeopathy is more subtle. We use a system of thoroughly investigated remedies derived from the plant, mineral and animal kingdoms to promote a healing reaction within the body. The prescriptions are carefully oriented to constitution, and physiological type.
However, to make life easier for those who do not have access to Homeopathy, Boiron developed a product called Oscillococcinum. This is derived from a duck virus, and has proven highly effective in the treatment of flu in a generalised population.Sequitur: The survival rate of Homeopathists’ patients in the 1918 flu epidemic is 94% – and Homeopathic Hospitals often took in patients dumped by other institutions. The survival rate of allopathy’s patients was 64% Is further comment necessary?

Posted by: ladybard | July 12, 2009

SWINE FLU

Swine flu has all the appearances of a lab cocktail, and its behavior is suspicious.  It targets the young while the elderly remain immune.   This is strange behavior for a flu virus but whatever its etiology, it is important to stay healthy and to build up immunity by the many means available to us.

Its vectors are strange as if it is being distributed systematically around the world.  Then again, with mass colonisations and travel in the uncharacteristic holiday season the patterns may be coincidental.

As is, the appearance of flu is seldom isolated.  First one, then three, then a cluster, spreading exponentially.

Swine flu appears in one location, disappears, then appears in another location, disappears, repeats in several other locations, then re-appears in the original location, as if re-introduced.

Strategies for good health include:

Exercise; nutrition, rest, personal hygiene, de-stressing.

The naturopaths may recommend echinacea. I have no objection to that, to stimulate and maintain the immune system, but recommend preparing for the worst by keeping a stock of Boiron’s Oscillococcinum and basic remedies to hand.  Oscillococcinum is derived from an avian virus, and well known

Find a good Classical Hahnemannian Homeopathist. In the flu epidemic of 1918, our fatality rate was 4%; orthodoxy’s was 64% – and we got the patients no one else wanted…

For children I recommend childrens’ Floradix, but check with your pediatrician or Homeopathist in case the child is allergic to any of its phyto-therapeutics. If your child has allergies, definitely consult a Homeophist!

To your good health!

Posted by: ladybard | June 22, 2009

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Posted by: ladybard | June 9, 2009

“House” MD and Homeopathy

“House” MD, always amuses me.  I usually Roll on the Floor Laughing or insist to anyone present  that they “call a Homeopath” and free the patient from his/her misery.

The latest episode that I have viewed was not, however, risible.

It concerned a little girl with an unidentifiable rash, misdiagnosed, misprescribed to the point where she ended up in the OR being prepped for amputation.

Meanwhile “House” goes through his usual dysfunctional egomaniacal emotional contortions.  No Homeopathist can afford that level of self aggrandisement.  Our discipline keeps our focus on the patient and it’s challenges keep us humble.  It is, as Dr. John Diamond, (MD, DOM, HD) puts it so eloquently, “the hardest medicine to learn and the hardest to practice…”

But mercifully easy on the patient…

I wonder how many people have undergone procedures that would have been rendered unnecessary by Homeopathic intervention.

I do know a significant number of procedures that were cancelled due to Homeopathic intervention.

Which is one reason mediocrities hate us.  And one reason why the more brilliant MDs respect us.

It’s just incredibly sad for the world that the truth about Homeopathy is suppressed.

Even sadder for little pre-nates.  They’re fighters!

In the meantime, House continues to amuse and reinforce my love of Homeopathic protocols.

 

Traumatic Brain Injury – Homeopathy as First Responder

Could Homeopathy have saved Natasha Richardson?


 

A beautiful young actress died on a ski slope recently.  Her death was a shock.

She tumbled on the beginner’s slope and fell.

Being British and a consummate theatre professional, she got herself up, dusted the snow up and walked away.  Stiff upper lip and the “show goes on.”  The Irish are the last to seek treatment.  British come a close second.  There’s no reference to that in Merck’s chapter on cultural sensitivities.

We are all so “respectful” of “patients’ rights” that her refusal of medical assistance was accepted.

She was with her young sons.  I don’t know if there was another adult in the party who might have said…”hold on there, that looked a little rough, at least wait a bit…”

As the minutes ticked by Natasha Richardson allegedly became more disoriented and was eventually brought to hospital.

There are two situations where investigation should be mandatory, and that is: a blow to the head, or a fall in which the head is compromised and where the patient is under the influence or has an abreaction to substances legal or illegal.

In the case of Traumatic Brain Injury, the Homeopathic Arnica Montana should be given sublingua in potency.

It will not create a false negative, but will diminish the shock to the body and minimise the injury.

This does not interfere with orthodox treatment, and does not preclude further Homeopathic assistance as in a change of remedy where indicated and appropriate.

The tincture may be dabbed on the wrists, but on no account may it be used on an open wound.

There are methods of determining the presence of brain trauma en route to the ER, not instead of the ER or A&E as they say in England. 

One of the more obvious is the use of a soft, direct light to determine pupillary reflex, but there are a number of others that orthodox medicine seems not to understand.

Attempts to enlighten them are met with condescending resistance, followed by a published paper a few years up the road.  (“Endocrine soup – hormonal involvement in the establishment of addiction in pedophiles” is one example.  That was 1983.)

Now that I have said my piece on behalf of Homeopathy, here’s a thought for the Old School:

Grow up!

A patient presenting with symptoms of TBI seems to provide a “Christmas Day” scenario for the sadists in Medicine.

Then again, almost any vulnerable patient arriving unescorted is “party time” for medical professionals and hospital clerks who belong behind bars – and not as Corrections Officers either.

Then again, my experience and crucible of observation is New York City, the capital of multicult liberalism, where every culture is respected except that of the white European.

“We bad!” as Richard Pryor might say.

An obese EMT stood over a friend bleeding from the forehead, shouting:

“Were you unconscious or weren’t you unconscious.”

She had been  unconscious but too concussed to respond.  When she could write her name but not speak it, they couldn’t put that together with the left parietal wound and realize her linguistic centers were damaged.

Fatboy set her up as a “problem” patient so on arrival at the ER, the intern with the pinprick pupils (drug use) and his misogynist boyfriend nurse with the filthy “whites” started to mock her.

An Englishman came to her assistance and helped her home, but she received no investigation, XRay, MRI, CT Scan, just abuse and a deteriorating condition.

She eventually recovered following Homeopathic intervention and some physiotherapy from the International Center for the Disabled but suffered unecessarily.

I’d hate to think of Natasha Richardson in such a condition entering a New York area hospital emergency room as an “unknown.”

She would be met with waves of passive aggression and racial hatred.

As is, being a celebrity she probably had the best money could buy.

She didn’t have the additional chance of survival afforded by Homeopathy’s arsenal against injury and illness.

Military, please copy.  Mothers, make your elected representatives aware that you want a Homeopathic option for your children as alternative or complementary Emergency Treatment.

If any good derives from this tragic loss to stage, screen and family, it may be increased awareness of the care and treatment of head injuries.  TBI has been neglected for far too long, and TBI patients treated as substandard or a nuisance.

May the angels fly you to eternal joy and peace, Natasha, on the wings of the love you generated in your too brief sojourn here.

Posted by: ladybard | March 23, 2009

Traumatic Brain Injury and Homeopathy

 

Traumatic Brain Injury – Homeopathy as First Responder

Could Homeopathy have saved Natasha Richardson?


 

A beautiful young actress died on a ski slope recently.  Her death was a shock.

She tumbled on the beginner’s slope and fell.

Being British and a consummate theatre professional, she got herself up, dusted the snow up and walked away.  Stiff upper lip and the “show goes on.”  The Irish are the last to seek treatment.  British come a close second.  There’s no reference to that in Merck’s chapter on cultural sensitivities.

We are all so “respectful” of “patients’ rights” that her refusal of medical assistance was accepted.

She was with her young sons.  I don’t know if there was another adult in the party who might have said…”hold on there, that looked a little rough, at least wait a bit…”

As the minutes ticked by Natasha Richardson allegedly became more disoriented and was eventually brought to hospital.

There are two situations where investigation should be mandatory, and that is: a blow to the head, or a fall in which the head is compromised and where the patient is under the influence or has an abreaction to substances legal or illegal.

In the case of Traumatic Brain Injury, the Homeopathic Arnica Montana should be given sublingua in potency.

It will not create a false negative, but will diminish the shock to the body and minimise the injury.

This does not interfere with orthodox treatment, and does not preclude further Homeopathic assistance as in a change of remedy where indicated and appropriate.

The tincture may be dabbed on the wrists, but on no account may it be used on an open wound.

There are methods of determining the presence of brain trauma en route to the ER, not instead of the ER or A&E as they say in England. 

One of the more obvious is the use of a soft, direct light to determine pupillary reflex, but there are a number of others that orthodox medicine seems not to understand.

Attempts to enlighten them are met with condescending resistance, followed by a published paper a few years up the road.  (“Endocrine soup – hormonal involvement in the establishment of addiction in pedophiles” is one example.  That was 1983.)

Now that I have said my piece on behalf of Homeopathy, here’s a thought for the Old School:

Grow up!

A patient presenting with symptoms of TBI seems to provide a “Christmas Day” scenario for the sadists in Medicine.

Then again, almost any vulnerable patient arriving unescorted is “party time” for medical professionals and hospital clerks who belong behind bars – and not as Corrections Officers either.

Then again, my experience and crucible of observation is New York City, the capital of multicult liberalism, where every culture is respected except that of the white European.

“We bad!” as Richard Pryor might say.

An obese EMT stood over a friend bleeding from the forehead, shouting:

“Were you unconscious or weren’t you unconscious.”

She had been  unconscious but too concussed to respond.  When she could write her name but not speak it, they couldn’t put that together with the left parietal wound and realize her linguistic centers were damaged.

Fatboy set her up as a “problem” patient so on arrival at the ER, the intern with the pinprick pupils (drug use) and his misogynist boyfriend nurse with the filthy “whites” started to mock her.

An Englishman came to her assistance and helped her home, but she received no investigation, XRay, MRI, CT Scan, just abuse and a deteriorating condition.

She eventually recovered following Homeopathic intervention and some physiotherapy from the International Center for the Disabled but suffered unecessarily.

I’d hate to think of Natasha Richardson in such a condition entering a New York area hospital emergency room as an “unknown.”

She would be met with waves of passive aggression and racial hatred.

As is, being a celebrity she probably had the best money could buy.

She didn’t have the additional chance of survival afforded by Homeopathy’s arsenal against injury and illness.

Military, please copy.  Mothers, make your opinions known here and to the National Institute of Health.  Homeopathy, correctly used and practiced, can make the difference between life and death.

Posted by: ladybard | January 19, 2009

Traumatic Brain Injury – the case for collaborative care.

TBI  Part One
One of my most valuable possessions is a book in French.  It was given to me by a priest-bishop who was my post thrombosis patient.  On the fly leaf he has written a message…in his own handwriting.

It’s a bit wobbly, but it’s written by a man who was written off by one of the best rehab hospitals in the State.  (Goldwater)  He was told that his right arm was paralyzed and that there was no point in even giving him physio.

He had been stranded in a Respiratory Care unit for 18months, completely paralysed on his right side.  He was intubated, in pain, fed through a stoma in his stomach, subject to frequent infections with concommitants.  Was not responding to strong broad spectrum anti-biotics.

He was stable, moved from Respiratory Unit to a nursing home wing, given his own room, concelebrated Mass, went to the Papal Masses, etc.  I didn’t see him for a while.

He had a stomach bleed – probably an infection from the ill fitting stoma – they took him in a bumpy ambulance across 59th St bridge to Bellevue, gave him a transfusion, returned him the same day, and he went into a coma.  I was attending to a family matter in Ireland, and returned two weeks later to find a call from his order regarding his status.

He was now a different unit where I had no support for treating him, so I would read to him.  Thomas Aquinas verses in Latin.  There were certain lines that would be sacred and special to a priest.  Always at those lines he would move his leg or arm.  The orthodox “dox” said it was “decubital” movements, but I am convinced otherwise.  He went to the Lord a week after my return.  I believe that he was waiting to say goodbye. 

I also believe that his intercession saved a young man’s life.  The young man had lent him his shoes for a Mass concelebrated with Cardinal O’Connor as the hospital could only provide sneakers and his order was in another State!  The assault took place very close to my friend’s hospital.  He ran in there, his head and hands scut open with a machete, and the staff stabilised him, (even tho it wasn’t a trauma center) and then accommodated me with incredible kindness.

That is one emotion I can share with you,friend, and that is the outrage and pain of having a child almost taken from you by the violence of an acquaintance.  At least your daughter’s assailant is behind bars.  The perpetrator in this case walks the street more freely than his victim.

Another TBI patient was smashed in the head by a falling tree in Africa. He had no sensation in his left arm and it was completely paralysed. Again, “no point in physiotherapy.” He lived with it for years.

After three months of Homeopathic treatment, he had full sensation to the elbow and some mobility.

I recommended a return visit to the neurologist, but not more than three physio sessions per week, if any were prescribed.

The neurologist was so impressed that he started an accelerated program of nine sessions per week, and lost the patient to a cerebral hemorrhage (brain bleed) three weeks later. I was invited to the funeral, but not to save my patient!

There are many such “impossible” cases in my files.

Problem is, when they return to orthodoxy, the orthodox health providers to whom we refer patients for diagnosis or treatment not available to us, eg., physiotherapy, neglect to call us in when problems occur.

We have many TBI patients who are alive and well. The above are cases where lack of collaboration compromised the patient’s survival.

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