Homeopathy has no side effects!
How Allison used Homeopathy to recover in record time from brain surgery.
Allison was not a client of mine, but for a long time had been using the Deluxe kit I designed to treat herself and her family. She rang me because her own homeopath was away. She was a generally fit woman with two very young daughters, but was ringing me from her local hospital where a lumbar puncture test had just revealed she had had a brain bleed, due to an aneurysm. I offered some homeopathic advice and told her to keep in touch. After a long silence, I received an e-mail from her:
Dear Mary,
I’m writing to you as a huge thank you for your help in my first stages of illness. Claire , my sister, has always talked so highly of you I thought it would be nice if you heard from me how homeopathy has brought about an amazingly speedy recovery for me.
Since my last conversation with you a lot has happened, I was brought to the out-patient department of theCorkUniversity hospital (in Ireland) a month after my first bleed in the brain. At this appointment it was explained to me that the pains I was suffering in my head were known as cluster headaches and that I was to be admitted immediately. Good thing I had brought my bag with me, I thought. I knew my body and I knew that these headaches were not right.
That night I was put on a fast, so as to prepare me for the angiogram procedure they would carry out the next day. No amount of preparation could ready me for that procedure it was an intrusion to my very soul. This however revealed that I had a large aneurysm that was pressing on my optic nerve – ah I thought, “That’s why I wanted to bore out my eye with a drill…”
After this procedure my consultant wheeled me back to the ward and told me to discuss things with my partner. I had five minutes to decide whether or not I wanted to have brain surgery. When I asked if I could have keyhole surgery (available at the Beaumont Hospital, in Dublin) I was told I couldn’t wait the ten to fifteen days to have that procedure, so in fact the consultant made my mind up for me. He promptly came back to wheel me back to have surgery on the brain. That was on April 19th . Before I left for the operating theatre I did manage to sneak an Arnica 30c, from the kit, into my mouth.
My consultant later came to tell me that when they opened up my head they found not one aneurysm, but two. Whilst they were able to clip the first one, the second one had to be packed with muslin. Visions of my child’s burping blanket came to mind and this confused me greatly as to why they put that in my head. I now had to wait and have this second one monitored.
After the operation I continued to take Arnica 30c every half hour and it was so beneficial to me, words just can’t express how much. The following morning I woke with my right eye swollen shut and some extreme swelling to the right side of my head. My sister arrived home fromEngland to visit me in the hospital. She was taken aback by the severity of the swelling, however by lunch time that very same day she turned to me and said, “I can’t believe your head is back to normal” and my eye had reopened.
The elderly lady across from me had had the same operation the day before as well and had also noticed this, and came swiftly over to ask me what I was doing that was different to her. She was completely purple from the bruising and her face was still very swollen. When I told her I was using Arnica she promptly told her daughter to try and get some for her. Even the nurse on day duty came to me and asked what it was I was using, and why did I not want half the painkillers that were on offer to me? When I told her she replied: “It’s such a pity we can’t recommend it as it really speeds up recovery.” For the following few days I continued to use Arnica pills and I also used Hypericum and Calendula ointment on my scar.
After five days the doctor came to me and said I was such a picture of health sitting with my crossword and cup of tea that he would discharge me and I was able to go home to my family. It was such a relief, as I missed my girls terribly and I really wanted them to know I was OK. Thankfully I wasn’t going home as elephant woman and wouldn’t scare them. I continued to take Arnica whenever the bruised pain returned over the two weeks following the op. At that stage the stitches were taken out and you wouldn’t know I’d had surgery except for the shorn locks at the front of my head.
If ever I had to recommend Homeopathy, Arnica would be the one for the lumps, bumps, bleeding and swelling… not only after brain surgery, but for my two year old daughter who has now grown eye level to most of the furniture in our house and is continuously falling off the tricycle etc. I have been very lucky. I know that even though my doctors were opposed to it and kept prescribing antibiotics and pain killers I was sure that Arnica was working for me. I knew I was well on the road to recovery and held firm in my belief that homeopathy does work. After a visit with my homeopath today I’m now on Ruta for the eye strain that I have since the operation (probably caused by the pressure on the optic nerve).
All my best wishes to you and thanks again for the part you played in helping me with my illness. It has reconfirmed for me that these natural and wonderful medicines are worth giving a try no matter how big or small the illness.
Regards,
Allison O Shea
PS I know I found it a great help seeing what other people wrote about brain aneurysms and surgery and found it a relief to find out about other people who had gone through the same experience. I haven’t found any who has used Homeopathy yet, so I don’t mind you publishing this if it will help other people. Thanks again Mary, it has been a release to even write about my experience.
(If you know someone who is going to be having surgery there are lots of very helpful remedies in the Deluxe kit and information on surgery remedies in the Guide – Mary).