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bunch of other Latin words that meant only that I was in pain and could hardly
move and nobody knew what was really wrong with me or what to do about it.
In 2002 I had been in various treatments for several years without showing any
significant improvement. I was scared to death of ending up homeless if I lost my
disability benefits and wasn’t able to work, so I agreed to have surgery done on
my elbow. I had an overwhelmingly negative feeling about the surgery, but I
didn’t pay much attention to it because at the time I was a hardcore rationalist
who thought that intuition was only for new-age hippy types.
As you may have guessed, the surgery was a disaster and the beginning of the
worst chapter in my life. After the operation, my right arm was completely frozen
at the elbow; I couldn’t use it at all. Not only did this prevent me from common
daily activities (for example, I could not floss my teeth,) but the frozen elbow also
caused a variety of cascading problems through my neck and back. I endured a
variety of awful treatments over the next four months in an attempt to free up my
arm, including wearing devices called DynaSplints that put pressure on a frozen
joint while you sleep. I even had a physical manipulation done under local
anesthetic, which my surgeon later told me was a bad idea because sometimes
people will have a heart attack from the intense pain.
I then agreed to undergo a second operation. This time, it actually did make
progress in freeing up my arm, and I could move my arm more easily, although it
was still far from functional. It would frequently freeze whenever I tried to use it,
and it lacked a significant range of motion. Worst of all, I was spending several
hours every day in a modern-day torture device called a CPM machine, which is
a hydraulic monster that forcefully extends and bends your arm for you.
It was at this stage that my Aunt Lauren told me about a something that changed
the course of my life. Her friend Terry O’Connell had experienced her own health
crisis and found an alternative healing technique called ThetaHealing. It not only
significantly helped her, but she was so impressed by ThetaHealing that she
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