Quote:My descent into nerve pain was radical and swift this time.

Rheumatoid arthritis has been my companion since I was thirteen. I am now sixty-six.

...For decades my back and shoulders have flared up badly occasionally. For years I only needed a dose of oral cortisone to ride out the storm. More recently I have depended on epidural injections of cortisone into the spine.

...Between the clicks and drags of one game about a year ago, the second and mortal injury came. I sank into a well of pure fire.

Let me mention in passing that over the decades, I have tried the Edgar Cayce Diet and the Macrobiotic Diet, both of them for eighteen months at different times. The Cayce Diet did no harm and no good. The Macrobiotic Diet cost me half my transverse colon. I learned too late that my body does not process rice. If there is a supplement I have not tried, and that right earnestly, I would be surprised. Nothing has ever helped.

Also, parenthetically, let me acknowledge that illnesses are illusory. Seemingly, my attitude and the attention I pay to the clearing of my energy body would clear away any physical symptoms. However I have not been able to manifest that. So while I would be the first to agree that surgeons are to bodies what mechanics are to automobiles, I firmly believe that the time has come for my body to see a mechanic.

...I will have spinal fusion surgery as soon as I return home from offering two presentations at the fourth annual Earth Transformation Conference in early January, a talk on 2012 and a workshop on being a Wanderer. (For more information about my talks and the Conference as a whole, go to http://www.earthtransformation.com.) This article is my notice to you that I will be off-line until April or so. It is also my way of sharing with you what has happened to make that so.

However there is another and far deeper reason for writing this article, and that is to share with you something that has been happening to me lately when I am dealing with the nerve pain that presently wracks my upper body, shoulder blades to fingertips, upper chest to hairs end. In the depths of a particularly difficult night, as I lay prostrate with this nerve pain, it came to me that I could not hurt any more than this and live. I was “maxxed out”.

(12-31-2009, 08:19 AM)ayadew Wrote: Let us not think that money is the only way abundance can come from... abundance in the way that we can give and aid. That is limiting, and we are infinite. Aid in whatever way you find plausible.

Quote:638 adults received 10 treatments over seven weeks. After eight weeks, 60% of patients receiving any type of acupuncture showed improvement in their level of pain and function, compared with 39% for those receiving usual care. After one year, 65% of participants receiving either individualised or standardised acupuncture continued to experience improvement, compared with 59% for simulated acupuncture and 50% for standard care.

(12-31-2009, 10:32 PM)Questioner Wrote: May I pass along some ideas that I hope might be of use?

(12-31-2009, 10:48 PM)Peregrinus Wrote: The only thing I can afford, sadly, is my love, and I send that to Carla as often as I think of her every day.

(01-01-2010, 05:47 AM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: You are certainly free to make whatever suggestions you like...perhaps a new thread devoted to suggestions about health might be helpful here...I'd like to keep this one focused on getting her a medical-grade water ionizer machine.

(01-01-2010, 09:21 AM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: Would it make sense to change the title of this thread, then? Its current title is fairly generic and does suggest openness to help of whatever kind, including advice.

(01-01-2010, 03:40 PM)Questioner Wrote: Monica, I really don't mind if you'd like to focus this thread on the health benefits of the water technology. Perhaps you could retitle it something like "Carla is in pain, please help the healing waters flow."

(01-01-2010, 05:45 PM)ayadew Wrote: You seem to really believe in this ionized water Monica... too bad it's so awfully expensive It'd be fantastic to try once

(01-04-2010, 03:57 AM)Peregrinus Wrote: I have 45 to spare at end month so I will send some money via PayPal

(01-04-2010, 03:57 AM)Peregrinus Wrote: I hope this can really help Carla.

(01-04-2010, 03:57 AM)Peregrinus Wrote: Silly question... where is the PayPal button?

(01-05-2010, 06:19 AM)xlsander Wrote: another 131 just paypaled your way - lots of love everyone!

(12-31-2009, 07:12 AM)ayadew Wrote: the world is exactly as we want it to be right now.

(01-06-2010, 11:45 PM)Questioner Wrote: >So, SOONER, or BETTER???

I think that depends on whether there's a trade-up option, or a return policy, or a way to sell a fairly-new, somewhat-used machine for a good price. If any of those apply, then there's really nothing to lose to get the basic machine and when more money comes in, move up to the better machine.

(01-07-2010, 04:57 PM)Whitefeather Wrote: it could be useful for us readers and members, that Monica let us know which amount the fundraising reached on a day to day basis - or every other day -, in case some of us wish to make a last minute further donation just to get the BETTER.