Pretty Please? A Goddess Wish

This is a request for Stardust on behalf of the goddesses everywhere on planet Gaia who are giving birth. As an OB anesthesiologist who apologizes for sticking needles in people's backs, who says, 'this is the best way we know how and when there is a better way I am going to use it!' each time...my dearest Galactic Brothers and Sisters, this is an open letter to you:


Childbirth is painful.

I am skilled in the relief of this childbirth pain.

Our methods are crude at best. It involves the insertion of local anesthesia into the central nervous system via a subarachnoid block (spinal) or epidural block for analgesia in labor.

Not long ago a mother came in who was like this:

She had a birthing ball, a birth plan, and wanted nothing to do with me. I made my rounds in the morning, wished her luck sincerely, and went on with my day.

Until I remembered this device:

I had seen it at a trade show last weekend. I had a demo sample on me. I asked her nurse if it was okay to invite the patient to trial it in her labor. The nurse said yes. So did the patient and her husband.

It felt so good to be able to offer non-drug pain relief that uses circulating energy in labor; the way it works is it stimulates the LI point with acupressure.

She wore it and she walked around in early labor. According to the nurse, the device came off once the 'active labor' hit.

But in a way, the device was a success because it helped the patient and I to form a relationship. And when later she asked for her epidural, it was different. We had both tried to avoid the needle, not just her.

She also had full knowledge of my Reiki training, and my intuitive strengths, since we met.

To get to this point takes incredible effort on the part of the mother. It requires a team. And whether it is in the OR or the delivery room, for most women on the planet, it is the most painful and fearful experience of suffering that exists.

I know for myself, as a survivor of molest, with PTSD,  there was no way I wanted to experience pain in my reproductive system. At all. But my OB thought 'natural was better' and I was induced against my will. I got 'stuck' at four centimeter's dilation, and had the section I always wanted after I had reached complete and total exhaustion, mentally, physically, and spiritually.

Although I had an epidural, I was praying the whole time for Jesus to come take me and the baby to Heaven. I was done and I wanted OUT. I have never prayed this prayer for my own demise before or since.

Why on earth should the most beautiful act of creation make a mother pray to die?

Life is a beautiful experience; that is the intent of Creator, is it not?

Stardust can take all pain away in fifteen minutes

That's how long my epidural takes to work. But my epidural is invasive, and requires a ten centimeter long needle into the back.

As an act of Divine Mercy. please send it here. Please send the Stardust to the mothers if it is safe. Please help them in their suffering. I am trained in pain relief--it is my profession. Please show me how it is used. I will train others. Please show me the dosing schedule, the contraindications, the side effects (if any).

I will show the world.

Please take the needles away. Please show us how it is done. Please send help NOW to those who suffer, starting first with mothers in labor, who have earned the place to be first in line.

Goddess wants nothing less.




Aloha and Mahalos,
Namaste,

Reiki Doc

Guidelines On Care Of The New Age Patient

The Light Warrior has special Health Care needs

Recently I had the chance to take care of a delightful New Age patient. 

This patient was sick, and unfortunately this was not their first time in the hospital. It had been a year of one horrible surprise and experience after another. I knew from the surgeon that this condition we were examining further today was not anticipated. I was not warned beforehand by this caregiver of any of the special beliefs that were held by this One.

I came to the bedside with the Intent to support and encourage and align this individual to 'continue' the course as focused and positive as humanly possible when facing this serious condition.

I actually did Reiki on myself before I met the patient in order to achieve this aim.

What I met surprised me: this patient was an Indigo in distress, metaphysically.

This Indigo hated the system that was keeping them alive.

This Indigo had special needs that the hated Conventional Medical Care system was not meeting in any way, shape or form for them.

This Indigo had conflict with their feelings that was hindering care and making their own situation more difficult without realizing it.

The medical 'street smarts' and 'comprehension' was altered by belief in support of alternative treatments. Sometimes I meet patients who understand both systems and 'take the best'. This one had no concept of what was happening to their own body because fear was clouding their ability to understand on my end, physiologically, what was going on.

There was a need of this patient for comfort and support that was very time-consuming on my part. It took the work of five patients, energetically-speaking, to support them in their fear-filled time in my care.

This was not the first time I have seen a patient like this--anxious, facing medical challenge, and highly New Age. Key words are organic, sensitive, strong medicines, clearing, Life Purpose, Dis-Ease, Imbalance.

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This is how I see my Indigo patients. I have taken care of several. You can too.

They are 'stuck between two worlds and don't like it', basically. And they fight. Boy, do they ever, ever fight you. For that is what Indigos DO.

Here are some guidelines to help heal these precious people who are in need of healing most when they come to your hospital:

• Always open your Heart Center and engage it in your interpersonal interactions with an Indigo. They will KNOW intuitively when you are just 'putting it on'. They demand your presence.
• They do not understand and will not accept that when they are asleep under anesthesia, their human body reacts the same as everybody else. Do not tell them.
• The illness is seen as 'having some reason' for their Spiritual Growth. It may range from a slight 'feeling' to a deep-rooted issue that forces you to recall everything you learned in your Psych clerkship and use it to help get this troubled soul through their own experience.
• You will have an energy drain on you that you have not had in ages! Even when shielding and protecting and doing self-work, this person will suck every last drop of your energy with the fear that encompasses them.
• Self-care is important when dealing with Indigos. Afterwards, I took a bath with sea salt in it to clear my aura.
• When the anxiety is severe, know there is a past life issue that is going on. Do your best to stabilize it  (for example, one such indigo had died in childbirth in a past life, and needed a c-section in this one to save both her and her babies' life. They refused it at first, putting themselves at risk until they changed their mind.)
• Once trust is established, these Indigos are incredibly thankful. They 'get it' that you are 'there for them'.
• There is a lot of honesty behind the fear, a wish to help others with the knowledge they have gained through illness, a sincere desire to become a Healer themselves.
• Teamwork is needed by the OR staff and recovery room staff to assist this person and set reasonable limits on how much time they require from the system (they want 'more' face-to-face and touching/hand-holding than management allows us to do; they also are absorbed in their process and innocently do not realize the bed they are taking up with their reaction to their illness is kind of 'slowing things down' in our resource's ability to take care of everyone else. It is sort of like an emotional complex reaction to surgery, just as if in the abdominal cavity there were dense adhesions that needed more time to manage than anticipated, and the following cases have to wait for the first case's delay to finish to start theirs.)

I have only touched upon this fascinating subject. All of my Indigo patients responded well to my care for them. Most of my approach was made by 'being in the moment' and 'doing what feels right'--the ability of my Heart Center to guide me through was priceless.

Resist the tendency to 'just get it over with' and not be Present. Indigos are going to need to come back into the system later with their ongoing health care needs. It is important that as a Conventional Medical Community we welcome the beautiful, high-frequency energy Indigo children with Love and Light to which they respond best. 

Always support, always ask for Guidance for the Highest Good, and gently introduce them to Medical Care's 'basics'.  Make effort to empower them, to engage them in their own health care choices, repeating gently over and over if needed what they are to expect and how you  are taking care of them in every way. I used words like, 'this time is different', and 'I don't know what exactly is happening right now with you but if you are patient we will work together to figure it out so you will know what 'works' for you the next time.' Some of the things that worked included Chinese acupressure!

Once one came back to me by crossing paths. I didn't recognize her. I ended up becoming her Reiki teacher.

Counteract and limit fear. Both in them and in you.

Love wins. Use it.

Remember, you are going to see more and more of them as their generation ages. Remember to put the Aloha in everything you do.

Namaste,

Reiki Doc

Reiki In The Operating Room, Part 2

During a case where you don't have to wear a mask and the surgeon does not need as many instruments, the surgical technologist (scrub tech) sat on a stool and complained about her back and shoulders hurting.

The circulating nurse had taken an acupressure class and was working on the scrub tech's back while the scrub tech was still sterile. In case you were wondering, the sterile part of you in surgery is somewhat like the strike zone in baseball, only smaller, it is about from your waist to your shoulders in the front and includes your arms. Everything else is considered 'unsterile' and may not touch the patient. So the scrub tech was sitting with arms in prayer position, hands and arms tucked away, and slightly bent to protect them.

There was so much tension in the neck that the massage was painful. No matter how gentle the nurse tried to be, the scrub tech complained and complained about the pain with each rub. She didn't want the back massage to stop, it just was so much tension being released it was uncomfortable to her.

This RN was also my Reiki one student.

I called her name, and she looked up.

I gestured CKR across the room.

The nurse nodded in agreement, and started Reiki as she continued the massage once again.

The scrub tech never complained about the pain again. 

The massage went on for about twenty more minutes, and not one peep.

That is the power of Reiki!

Gentle healing, lovingly applied with trust in both guide-teacher and guide-spirit.

Namaste,

Reiki Doc

Humor in the Hospital

Hospitals are funny. And humor is healing too. This is one of the signs on one of the doors of a patient room on post-partum. We OB anesthesiologists had taken it over. Why? Because there had been a flood in the call room suites in the basement that winter. I had been in the call room at the time, and silly me, had thought, well, the doctor's dining room next door, and Medical Records are flooded, but not the call room!

Water seeks it's own level! Duh!

As the water came in under the door, as deep as my ankles, I had the sense to raise the computer up on a chair, and grab my stuff. I think I still have picture of my scrub pants with the water line. Good thing I wear clogs! LOL

Humor is important in medicine. There are many different types of humor. Some is just plain folk wisdom, helping to teach people and foster the team spirit.

Last night I was talking to my cousin, who is a stuntwoman. She was going to play a red-headed doctor who was nodding off behind the wheel at night in some R-rated made-for-T.V. movie that I would never watch anyway because she dozes off and plows into a bunch of people. I had to make sure they were computer generated ones, and not stunt people, getting hit by the car.

We laughed because as I was coming out of surgery on Tuesday, I was pretty loopy. My crazy uncle, her father, and my sister had been there. The dilaudid was working, and I kept announcing, 'I am going to go to sleep now!'. then I would pass out for about thirty seconds, and repeat the whole thing over again. I made my cousin laugh by mentioning using me as research for her part in the movie!

She didn't know that we laugh in the hospital. All the time. I shared with her one of the old ones I first leaned in the O.R.: all bleeding stops eventually.

She thought that was funny. It took her a while to get it, but she laughed and laughed! It does. Most certainly. We either fix the problem, or the problem wins.

Variations of that are, 'What this patient needs is cold, hard steel' (an operation).

In Trauma Surgery, 'The life you save may one day live to take your own'.

Surgeons and Internal Medicine doctors have a rivalry. Surgeons say, 'we do everything an Internal Medicine Doctor does PLUS we operate!'. Internal Medicine thinks they are smarter. For example, many anesthesiologists have taken internships in Internal Medicine before starting their Anesthesia Residency Training.  They call the ether screen (the part of the drape that folds up by the head of the patient during surgery) the 'Blood Brain Barrier'. We are on the 'Brain Side'. ; )

Well, Surgeons don't take that lightly. If you look, you will never see one wearing a stethoscope around the neck like they do on T.V. Real surgeons would never do that. They keep it in their pocket. Why? Because surgeons like to refer to the stethoscope around the neck as a 'Flea Collar'. You may ask, 'Why in the world would they call it a Flea Collar?'. Because fleas are the last thing to leave a dying dog.

Think about it. And let me know when you get it. If you do. I bet George Takei would get it! LOL

My humor has its own place in the bedside. I go around to check the day after my inpatients have major surgery. One of the things I do in pre-op that usually upsets them, is I examine their teeth. I document the condition of everything, where a cap or a veneer or implant is, and caution them because, 'In surgery you never know. If I have to choose between keeping your getting oxygen and your teeth, I am choosing oxygen' (usually I don't put it that way, but they understand that things can sometimes happen, and loose teeth and prosthetic teeth aren't as strong as native ones in good repair.)

When I visit them the next day, I act all surprised that we didn't knock any of their teeth out. "Man, we were SO lucky weren't we?' They get the giggles all the time. Partially because I had the ability to knock them out in the first place, 'You...you...the LAST thing I remember was you telling me you were going to give me a little margarita in my i.v.!!!' and that I got them through all right, with no nausea and no pain in the first place. And all their teeth intact and their voice not hoarse or anything.

Anesthesia is a blessed thing. It truly is. I didn't want to remember the inside of the O.R. when I went for my robotic laparoscopic surgery. And mercifully, I did not recall the inside of the O.R. or transferring over in the first place from my pre-op gurney to the Operating Room Table. (It would have been lumpy, there was a bean bag on it for positioning in the steep trendelenberg position for the case.). Anyways, I had my best friend in there with me. She was doing Chinese Acupressure on me as I went to sleep. I asked her if I said anything funny. She said when I woke up I couldn't believe how quick the surgery had been, and I was happy and smiling. 'Sweet as your usual self" she smiled and said. My anesthesiologist had done anesthesia for other members of my family. He is a friend. He came in just for me that day, on his birthday. I am so lucky to have had all the members of my team that worked on me. They protected my privacy and helped me very much.

Sometimes we have a problem that needs surgery. I can't wait to share more about the many opportunities I had for Reiki in my recovery, and in the hospital as a whole. This new energy medicine/Reiki combination is going to be GREAT! We have so much work to do on this together.

Namaste,

Reiki Doc