9.15.15 And she'd go "NO!"

 

I was talking with a gifted local chiropractor yesterday. I'd say " Non bilateral positioning hour after hour on the computer!" And she'd go "NO!" She'd say "Standing on one leg with the hips differentiated !" And I'd say "OH! I know!" She'd turn and mutter "Bags on shoulders, slowly ruining their backs and necks and arms and legs !" And I'd shake my head, say " Disaster!" I asked "Do you notice all the anteriorly displaced L5's and the kyphotic shoulders and the head/back/hip/ knee/ankle problems , when you're out in the world ??" "YES!!"
She cried. " I try to learn not to see. Did your kids go crazy with all your noticing ?" "Absolutely " I replied . " Do yours guess what you're seeing??" She laughed as we parted . "Every day."

9.15.15 And again, so many yellow

 

Walking along the arroyo , down by the Connecticut River, a bit later than usual. Yellow butterflies chasing each other, the rising sun warm upon us. Tiny asparagus plants still coming up from the earth, in their intricate form, covered with sparkling dew. The grass is wet, all the growing things watered in the night. And again, so many yellow butterflies, fluttering about, with delight.

9.15.15 I'm imagining the walker left behind on the front porch

There is this house down the road from me, with a very pretty small garden, enclosed by a rock wall. This year as I drove to and fro, I began noticing people coming to clean up the garden, and reposition the bench.

All the while, there was this older, gaunt person, with a walker and oxygen tanks, standing by, or walking about, watching.

Then I would see them walking up and down their driveway, to their mailbox, by themselves, without the oxygen tank. Slow and difficult effort.

This morning, driving by on the way to walking down by the river, I caught sight of a tiny tractor with a wagon behind it, and this person, sitting at the wheel.

I'm imagining the walker left behind on the front porch. All these tree branches in the back of the wagon. As this person, strengthened and liberated, makes their way in their day.

 

9.15.15 In it's infancy

     An Integrative Treatment of Cancer is not well understood at all. And it's a great thing to have some idea about. Trust me. Integrative medical tx of cancer or any other condition is a lot like having numerous tradespeople restoring your home. An electrician cannot replicate the work of a plumber nor a carpenter . 

Most people have NO idea what it means , Integrative Medicine, and think there is only Either/Or. That could not be farther from the truth, not further from your advantage.

     If one chooses to have Western Medical treatments to cancer, an Integrative approach means you, or you and an Oncology Naturopath, carefully determine what herbs , supplements, homeopathics, external applications , hands on work , and energetic work ( Reiki. etc.) to be done and when, in what synergy, and how.what we can somewhat afford . What will be most integral for the person , and gave the most effectiveness .

     Because these things are in their relative infancy , it's pretty complex. You NEED someone to consult , who specializes in the 'Naturopathic' tools, because they vary according to many factors: 

-What type of cancer 

-How progressed

How fit. , strong and clean ( vs full of blocked eliminative waste)

-What is somewhat realistic and manageable , financially, orally, and emotionally / cognitively 

-How much integrity the GI tract has , for digesting vs being irritated and stressed by little liquids and pills.

     After an initial intake , consults often happen by phone or Skype , last about a half hour, and cost around $250, and happen every few months or as needed. Judicious use of email gives you more access for adjustments as things come up.

Thing is, if you can manage to supervise a loved one's situation or your own, without becoming overwhelmed or exhausted (sustainability being primary) there is SO much more that is possible .

     In terms of increasing the 'tolerance' for conventional treatments. For increasing the strength and vitality of the person with cancer and their immunity.

Thing Two is, it's tough to be the supporter, who surveils the state of health , has a birds eye view of the perils involved with this or that , keeps track of supply and ordering , and gently reminds / offers to help the person do thus or that.

Kind of like supporting a growing kid with special needs , one wants to support but not NEED the person to do things . Can't contaminate the relationship , if the supporting is going to work .

     It's a very unfortunate thing to run out of supplements . I watched very unfortunate things happening to clients , and learnedly valuable lesson. 

(It IS possible to replicate formulas inadequately , so you have lesser effective replacements for when you run out). 

     The birds eye view is tough . I remember attending births to photograph and advocate . Many home births. , some hospital . There are these slippery slopes with our bodies , where, once you can't pull off one thing, and add a med, statistically there is a great chance the next and then next med will become more and more necessary. Slippery slope.

    A person with cancer can't necessarily manage their life , their efforts , their exercise and good meals and meeting up with the. 'Station' of supplements three times a day, pills and liquids and powders and refrigerated stuff, and pull off other responsibilities , AND check out the consequences of pulling off the latest problem in neutrophil production or naturopathically reducing HTN , and handle the cost/benefit of adding an additional med ( all meds are a great problem for already greatly stressed liver) without crumbling .

     It is in its infancy . Integrative a Medicine for Cancer. It will become clearer .

Naturopathic treatment of cancer will become so vital to success and health it will be institutionalized , with the ensuing advantages and disadvantages .

Private pay for all the all the supplements will be necessary . Creative people will come up with mediating solutions for access.

I     n the meantime , exactly like the great and the difficult involved with treating any other condition naturopathically , it us much more work for great great benefit.

9.14.15 All that yesterday wove with such delight.

“There are some things better left unsaid.” 

They say to me, what with their 

upright spines, and that 

moldering insistent visage.

As I carefully sort through the 

remnants, the carded woolens

and then all that yesterday 

wove with such delight.

 

9.14.15 Hushabye