On the plane ride from Chicago to Philadelphia Friday, I read my Yoga Journal magazine and read a wonderful article about a young woman diagnosed with cancer and how she became not only responsible for her body, with nutrition, exercise but found a healing path writing about her journey. They call her the sole survivor and she became well known for her first book Crazy Sexy Cancer. It inspired me, and since I have been called crazy so much in my life, I now know that I am just truly wild, a rebel with no cause. I do not believe everything they tell me. Perhaps I’ll turn this into a book too, just to help. It is on my agenda to sign up for the phone peer support system for MS, through the MS Society.
Ted and I are now in the Philadephia airport, heading home. It has been my 3rd treatment with Dr. Baek yesterday. I must say that after 3 months of treatments, especially the 3 per week in Evanston with Dr. John Neighbors, I’m a bit fried. It takes a lot of time out of the work schedule. Besides that, it is a lot of money per month. And yet, I know it’s working.
John had agreed to treat me again on Friday before his teaching accupuncture at the Homo Sanctus. Ted and I were there on time. John was stuck on the phone with his cell phone provider. I waited with him for a half an hour until he gave up and started the treatment. I’m more than used to the path of needles that he puts into me connecting the brain to the body. What I was not used to with him, is that he forgot about me. He went into his class and started teaching, and came back way after an hour. I was laying on the table, falling into my usual semi-sleep, from which I awoke about 20 minutes later, which for me is an indicator that the treatment is complete. The time thereafter, I spent guiding my mind to thoughts of gratefulness, which I truly am. Then came a point when it was just too unfomfortable, and I imagined people who were abducted and put in a box for a year. I was far more comfortable than they were.
I did meet Dr. Baek before John’s treatment. He had come early. And knowing that he had no patients that afternoon, he enjoyed some tequilla and cake. Perhaps this is why he gave me a big hug when he saw me. After that I heard discussions about why to trust women. He had seen a sticker on Ted’s computer that says “Trust women.” I didn’t say anything.
On Saturday, Ted and I spent the day in the hotel room and went up to Homo Sanctus to be at the treatment at 7pm. There were 3 other women who had come from Chicago for treatment, all patients of Dr. Isabel Munos, so I did not know if I had to wait again for a long time, but it so happened that I was first. I had two questions prepared for Dr. Baek. One was about my myopia and what I could do for my eyes. The other, why I need to take Fixbin, bone and bone marrow builder. John had not been able to answer me. Dr. Baek was very present and precise and the treatment was superb. He found a path from my brain to my kidneys with needles on my head, which I need to understand. He asked me to burn more moxa, this time on my arms and my legs. He was pleased with the status of my MS and recommended chi gong treatment for my eyes.
It is true that since the beginning of this journey, I had questions inside myself, what my life would be like, if the MS truly had left me, since for 28 years my lifestyle has been centered around what I could and could not do. So now I had asked that question to practitioners. One of them jokingly said you will know and the other one said be happy.
That’s all folks, until next time.
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