MORNING GLORY UPDATE Dear Friends, Yesterday was a really good day for MG. Our first student, Kiri brought over Joan Marler, Marija Gimbutas’ protégé, to check out our amazing Goddess collection of more than 300 Goddess figurines from around the world and throughout history. MG was in fine form in her best Priestess mode. Kiri recorded their conversation and MG’s teachings on the Paleolithic “Matrikas.” Kiri’s plan is to transcribe MG’s verbal lessons as a foundation for her planned series of 13 “Golden Goddess Guides.” MG’s regimen of dialysis on Mon., Wed. & Fri., with Velcaid cancer treatments on Tues. and Cytoxin on Wed. has been really intense, and often very difficult for her—especially the long gap between dialysis over the weekends. But this past Tuesday she was finally able to make it to the major medical marijuana dispensary in Sebastopol with her prescription from her oncologist, and obtained her first dosage of herbal medicine. We also picked up a nifty vaporizer. This was a bit of an expense, but it has transformed her life overnight—greatly reducing her negative reactions to the nasty Cytoxin (restless legs, nausea, IBS, and overall pain). She’s been sleeping well throughout the nights thanks to the medical cannabis, and not having to wake me up every few hours to take care of her—which has been going on since she came home from the hospital. Another major factor in her stabilization is that we were finally able to get her in-home oxygen, with a big machine (oxygenator) that pulls oxygen from the air and pumps it to her. I hooked the oxygenator tube up to my old CPAP breathing machine, and now, with pressurized oxygenated air she can breathe easily all night and overcome the buildup of fluid in her lungs that had been sending her into the emergency room at 4:00am on previous Sundays. Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to get our insurance to pay for the oxygen, as they demand tests that indicate her lowest oxygen levels are below 90% to confirm her need for oxygen. But by the time I get her into the dialysis clinic (or the emergency room), she’s already been given emergency oxygen just to save her life, and her levels are up before they can be tested. So we are still having to pay for the oxygen out-of pocket. We also now have in-home nursing care thanks to two of our dearest long-time friends who have moved into the house: Artemisia Barden, CAW Bard, who had lived with us in 2006-’08 to help care for MG’s mother, Polly, in her final months and stayed on to care for MG and later in the first years of our respective cancers; and Avilynn Pwyll, CAW Priestess and licensed nurse, who is staying here for a few months until she can find a rental home in our area. And a new friend, RaVnWolf, who is a physical therapist and Reiki master, is coming every Thursday evening to do wonderful body work on both of us. And we have gotten back on the Ceres program, which delivers a week’s worth of prepared meals every Friday to invalid cancer patients around the county. Unfortunately, due to exhaustive sleep deprivation over the past months since she’s been at home, my own health finally broke before we got her on the medical marijuana, and I got a nasty little cough which she’s now picked up. So today she’s feeling pretty awful upon awakening. Seems there’s always something else! Please check out the nifty little tribute video that our stepson Zack put together for her: gofundme/6fa3bk BB/NT-OZ
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 19:16:59 +0000