Mike and Darlene's visit

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Sorry that I am not writing an entirely new post here. I admit, I

am taking most of this post from my Live Journal entries

We decided to work downstairs so r wouldnt get in the way and

then decided that dad would be more likely to work on me so he came

down to 'assist' Mike. Mike gave a little talk about the different

types of energy you could feel and demonstrated them both to dad and

I on Darlene. We felt the crainal, lymphatic, chi, blood pulse and I

thought there was one more (maybe I am just a little tired . Then

it was my turn to get up on the table. We started at 8pm. I get up

there and he tells me to lay straight as I normal would. He then

goes hmmmm. Maybe I should see you standing up. Both of my parents

were in there room right then to see how my hips were slightly

rotated and one was higher than the other, one of my shoulders was

lower than the other and my head seemed to be tilted to one side

while lying down. Probably from all the time I have spent limping

around from this dumb knee! Mike did the first few things by

himself. I believe these were all cranial aspects. One part he said

that 'something' should have been moving around and stimulating one

of the glands and it was just doing nothing. Also I had a lot of

tension in my neck that he lifted my head up by a spot on my neck

and did work through another point and my head slowly relaxed into

his hands so that my chin was pointing the ceiling. That was

definitly a weird feeling!! I dont even know how long he worked on

my by himself but then he pulled dad in to work in tandem with him.

He was working on my right side (predominantly worse side) and dad

was working on my left side. Mike was showing and placing his hands

where he was going and I was to tell dad if it was the right spot

and correct pressure. Apparently my shoulders were interesting

according to dad. They started and dad kinda jumped back and said

woah! Apparently it was like a twitching feeling and freaked him out

a bit. After that he though it was cool and kept telling me when

they happened. They worked a lot on my shoulders but then my legs

didnt seem to have much energy flowing so he decided to try

something else after. They did that kind of stuff until 10ish. That

is when dad went to get a drink, (I was told to drink some water

too) and Mike started to work on the ganglion cyst on my ankle

tendon. Before the cyst was tender to the touch and I could

definitly feel if any pressure was being placed on it. Mike played

around with it for a while then asked how it felt. I couldnt even

tell he was touching it! He said he felt almost the sensation of 3

small water ballons bursting. Then when dad was back downstairs and

Mike brought out tuning forks. He hit them and then put one on each

side of my hips and asked which was stronger and lasted longer. Well

the first little while I couldnt feel anything beside my left hip. I

could feel both heels and my right hip but not the left. After a

while of doing that and 'balancing' I could feel everything equally

at all four places. He then showed dad and I how to do lymphatic

drainage as this will help the swelling and pain in my knee. That

was really neat feeling as the person only uses a feather touch

while working on you. At this point he had me get off the table and

my hips, and shoulders were the same alignment as each other and my

chin was in alignment with my sternum. This is all a good thing. So

I got back up on the table while he was disscusing things with my

parents then he asked me how I felt. At that point my knees felt a

little stiff. He just did a few points on opposite sides of each

other and my knee felt fine! I even did quite a few number of stairs

tonight. All in all Mike worked on me for about 3.5 hours!! It was

definitly an interesting and educational evening. Now I just hope

dad remembers what Mike taught him!

Well that was last nights entry in my journal about what had

actually taken place that night. This is some parts from my entry

from earlier this afternoon about how I was feeling:

I got out of bed and went upstairs. On the first step I noticed that

the pain in my knee had drastically decreased, still a little sore

going up stairs but they were no problem to go up at all like they

used to be! I started walking down the hall to the computer room and

realized that my ankle didnt hurt either! (Well unless I rolled on

it then there was a twinge of pain but Im sure that's a body's

defense mechanism to tell you not to do that). I get into the

computer room and was talking to mom and she started asking

questions like how does my back feel (Perfectly fine, not so much as

an ache!) and my wrist (felt normal to me) and a few things like

that. Mom and I are talking and she mentions how dad will be

phoning soon as he has already called four times that morning

wanting to know how I was feeling. Well it was at that second that

dad called to want to know how I was feeling. I told him great

The only thing wrong was I had a pretty big headache (and it has

lasted most of the day). We are going to try accupressure tomorrow

if it's still there.

Okay here is the non-journal stuff

This visit helped my entire family tremendously!! I dont think

neither of my parents were really at the acceptance stage yet and

just felt lost about what they should be doing or feeling. Mom had

a nice long talk with Darlene and I think that helped her realize

that she too had to go through a process of acceptance and that she

was on the right path. We actually sat down and had a serious talk

about it for about an hour today about how she was always frustrated

with things because I would tell her something was wrong but any

test would come back negative. And about how medications dont work

correctly for me. Darlene and just talking helped her realize that

it was okay. She is even now thinking about joing a message board

for support herself! I mean it was only the beginning of this

summer that I got her to accept that this message board was a

tremendous support group. It was just such a chage and one that had

to be done! I feel like I owe Darlene so much just for that!! Cant

forget Mike's amazing hands and great way of teaching others. Dad

is going around today joking about how he has 'healing hands' and we

talked for a bit tonight (Didnt see him much cause he goes out

monday evenings and I was having a nap and missed supper). First

thing he asks is where my accupressure book was. I quickly went to

get it for him and he immediately starts flipping through it and

reading bits and pieces. He asked if he could borrow it to read and

I obviously very quickly said yes and told him to highlight and

bookmark anything he wanted. He has always been the one to just

step back and let mom try to help me figure out medical decisions so

having him getting this into trying to help is amazing. I think he

is just finally so relieved that he now has a way to help me that he

never had before.

Thanks again Mike and Darlene!! You can't imagine how much you

helped this family!

Stacey

By the way dad has been a little freaked and amazed about this part.

He has a watch that has always had water in it. Not just a few

drops, a substantial amount for a watch. Well he wasnt wearing it

while working on my (obviously or that probably would have hurt me

lol) but he did put it on when he went up for a drink of water and

Mike was working on my ankle and using the tuning fork things. Dad

did help him after that with the lymphatic drainage and a bit of

more accupressure on my knee (even though Mike did the majority of

that part). Dad calls him this morning immediately following his

safety meeting and is all excited and says guess what.......... his

watch no longer has ANY water in it. He was totally floored by that

and just ended up shaking his head.