Cosima's story part 7

At Rio Rancho Nursing Home

A few of the things happened that speeded up my healing process. Zach, my son, bought me a very small refrigerator so I could have my own food. Then I was moved into a private room because my room mate had a bacterial infection - the same one that the person in the private room had. So they switched me into the private room. What a blessing indeed - it was a wonderful room with a nice window where I could see trees. The refrigerator made a huge difference because I could have some of my own food. I was at 92 lbs and was having trouble keeping the nursing home food down. Mom would take the organic box soups, chicken, rice, and Chinese vegetables (snow peas, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots) into the nurses station and heat it up. I was only able to eat a few salads once in awhile and beef and fish weren't working.

My friend Eileen Neilhly, who is a certified homeopathic person and Reiki person, sent me many small bottles of homeopathic remedies.

I had started introducing homeopathic medicine (homeopathics uses small amounts of mineral salts that become a catalyst in the body to encourage the body back into balance) and Spirilina (which is a form of green algae which is high in amino acids, good for the immune system and high in antioxidants)and Bone Up(which is a form of calcium that my body assimilates). The calcium the doctors were giving me did not work very well for my body. My experience is that when my body is not assimilating calcium it leaves deposits on my joints and produces bone spurs.

The doctors and nurses could see that I was getting stronger it was hard for them and and technicians to dole vitamins out to me as my requests for amounts increased. Finally they gave me permission to have a lock box and self administer the vitamins and homeopathic medicines. These vitamins and homeopathic medicines helped increase my strength because my body was able to assimilate them more easily.

With my additional strength I started using the walker and my physical therapist would take me around the building inside and outside. Now I could get really close to the trees and practiced walking on sand, dirt, gravel, and through the grass. I walked right over tree roots, through the gravel. and up a sand bank. Sometimes I over did it and paid with pain but after resting on the weekend I would be right back to walking again.

Actually sometimes the pain was unbelievable. It was hard for my family to help me through it because I was so determined that even if they had to assist me when I hobbled back into bed with terrible pain I would be back at it again the next day.

My friend Arianna came to visit me and did a light massage and I used her foot bath and ozone machine. The water turned bright orange as the arthritis from my fingers and bones started releasing un-needed toxins.

Cassandra and Bill did Polarity, Prana Healing, and other energy work on me and my new friend Jennie used her computer and a program called Light to up some of the doses of homeopathics. I met Jeanie through Cassandra. Jeannie has the same birthday as I do. We were both born at Presbyterian Hospital on December 1,1947. Wonderful connections can happen unexpectedly.

I also had a acupuncturist named Laurel Silkie who came to the nursing home twice. It is a real gift when these busy professionals will come to help out someone in a nursing home. Her treatment was a combination of energy work and acupuncture. My body did a lot of releasing on a lot of levels. She also helped figure out later on what to take for diarrhea, pain, and sleep which was interrupted by throwing up all night long when I got off the last drug.

Dr. Bob Schoos, a chiropractor and a friend of mine from the Jemez area, also came to the nursing home. I used to work at the Jemez Springs Bath house and for years Dr. Bob Schoos and I would send clients to each other. He brought his laser machine and gave me a treatment which really improved my strength in legs and arm and hand and thumb. Laser work and his techniques included menge point work and Kinesiology. His own systems are also incredible.

Gracia Coffin, Cecilia Viejos, Linsay Locke, Angele Ferrie - my teachers and friends -all did Reiki on me.

My teacher Michael Silver Dragon who I studied Qi Tao Reiki and chakra issue work for years with and his wife Berta who I studied American Indian Journey work with all came and gave me support and treatments. It was because of Michael's teaching that I was able to assist so many people in Houston at 'A New Way'.

My friend Susan Myers and her husband John helped introduce some new food possibilities.

My long time friend Wanda Higgins from Hummingbird Music Camp came often even on her busy schedule. I have worked on her and her family doing massage and Reiki treatments for years at Hummingbird Music camp. They had a cabin across from my folks when I was a kid and I used to play with the kids in the summer.

As I started to improve I started asking myself what else I needed to do. I still had to make trips by van to UNM hospital for exams and x-rays. It was a long and tedious adventure, 3 to 6 hours in a day, and the x-ray machines were difficult and painful. The staff was always very nice though.

When going to the hospital I had seen other people with physical therapy boards. Being lifted was painful so I decided to ask to borrow the the baby board, to make restroom trips easier. I usually got sick on the way back to the nursing home. My sacrum being broken and ribs smashed and organs smashed together and the spine smashed made it very painful and made my physically ill. I thought to myself what can I do to change this situation I am in. I meditated and remembered.

Next steps to helping myself heal
To be continued Part 8