Amma listens

[Guest guest]

Om Namah Sivaya,

 

Once again, this child has been shown that Amma listens to us.

 

A little over a week ago, My son, Ben, had a fall skiing and heard his

arm pop. He is an adventurous soul and has had many injuries

beginning with breaking both of his arms while demonstrating a rather

acrobatic dismount from the swings in First Grade. He is one of those

folks that does Big Wall climbing in the Sierras, flips off of cliffs

while skiing, tries to make his mountain bike into some sort of flying

machine, his skateboard into a land-speed record holders, etc., so

this isn't a rare thing.

 

This time, it created a really bad situation that was just getting

worse. He is a seasonal employee in Yosemite National Park and is

currently not working, being the off-season (therefore no insurance).

The initial diagnosis after x-rays was a spiral fracture of the left

humerus, with directions by the doctor at the clinic in Yosemite to

see a specialist. They put him in a soft cast and a sling and sent

him on his way. He was in a lot of pain in his shoulder also. One of

the folks at the clinic, not a doctor, told him when he first got

there that he thought it as a shoulder dislocation and was going to

pop it back in for him, but decided to defer until doctors and x-rays

were done. When the x-rays were taken, only the arm was x-rayed, not

the shoulder for some reason.

 

Since he didn't have insurance, he was having no luck in finding an

orthopedist that would look at him and time was just going on. His

doctor told him of a program in California to provide financial

assistance in case of catastrophic medical costs and he began the

paperwork to see if he could qualify for that. Then with that in

process, he made another round of calls to orthopedists and found out

that none of them would take that program, due to the amount of time

it took to get paid.

 

Meanwhile, 4 days after the injury, while he was laying down trying to

find a comfortable position for his painful shoulder, moving his arm

around, the suspected dislocated shoulder popped back in, and nearly

all of his pain disappeared.

 

I called a friend of mine that had been our family doctor for decades,

in fact he had been the one that had set Ben's arms in the First Grade

mishap, to see if he could do anything. He said that as long as the

primary doctor had recommended seeing an orthopedic specialist, he

couldn't do anything unless Ben got that doctor to change their

recommendation. Ben was becoming pretty disillusioned and depressed.

 

Ben called up to the doctor that had originally sent him in the Park

to ask if those directions could be changed so that he could see our

family doctor and found out that the official readings of the x-rays

had come back from the radiologist and Ben's arm wasn't broken after

all. The lines that the original doctor had interpreted as cracks

were actually channels and grooves in the bones where blood vessels

and such entered the inside of the bone! He went back up there and

had the soft cast removed and is working on exercises to get loosened

back up after being immobilized for over a week.

 

Everything seems fine.

 

I, of course, had been praying to Amma all along, and had intensified

these prayers the day before the magic all happened.

 

Thank You Amma, for watching over us and our loved ones.

 

Forever in Mother's care,

mike

 

The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who

is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes

toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God's favorite place.

 

--Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi Devi)

[Guest guest]

you would be amazed at how often the doctors get it all wrong.

Sometimes it is actually a good thing that you don't have enough

money or insurance to do more complicated procedures...because

misdiagnoses are so frequent

 

 

Ammachi , " Mike Montoya " <dustygain wrote:

>

> Om Namah Sivaya,

>

> Once again, this child has been shown that Amma listens to us.

>

> A little over a week ago, My son, Ben, had a fall skiing and heard

his

> arm pop. He is an adventurous soul and has had many injuries

> beginning with breaking both of his arms while demonstrating a

rather

> acrobatic dismount from the swings in First Grade. He is one of

those

> folks that does Big Wall climbing in the Sierras, flips off of

cliffs

> while skiing, tries to make his mountain bike into some sort of

flying

> machine, his skateboard into a land-speed record holders, etc., so

> this isn't a rare thing.

>

> This time, it created a really bad situation that was just getting

> worse. He is a seasonal employee in Yosemite National Park and is

> currently not working, being the off-season (therefore no

insurance).

> The initial diagnosis after x-rays was a spiral fracture of the

left

> humerus, with directions by the doctor at the clinic in Yosemite to

> see a specialist. They put him in a soft cast and a sling and sent

> him on his way. He was in a lot of pain in his shoulder also. One

of

> the folks at the clinic, not a doctor, told him when he first got

> there that he thought it as a shoulder dislocation and was going to

> pop it back in for him, but decided to defer until doctors and x-

rays

> were done. When the x-rays were taken, only the arm was x-rayed,

not

> the shoulder for some reason.

>

> Since he didn't have insurance, he was having no luck in finding an

> orthopedist that would look at him and time was just going on. His

> doctor told him of a program in California to provide financial

> assistance in case of catastrophic medical costs and he began the

> paperwork to see if he could qualify for that. Then with that in

> process, he made another round of calls to orthopedists and found

out

> that none of them would take that program, due to the amount of time

> it took to get paid.

>

> Meanwhile, 4 days after the injury, while he was laying down trying

to

> find a comfortable position for his painful shoulder, moving his arm

> around, the suspected dislocated shoulder popped back in, and nearly

> all of his pain disappeared.

>

> I called a friend of mine that had been our family doctor for

decades,

> in fact he had been the one that had set Ben's arms in the First

Grade

> mishap, to see if he could do anything. He said that as long as

the

> primary doctor had recommended seeing an orthopedic specialist, he

> couldn't do anything unless Ben got that doctor to change their

> recommendation. Ben was becoming pretty disillusioned and

depressed.

>

> Ben called up to the doctor that had originally sent him in the Park

> to ask if those directions could be changed so that he could see our

> family doctor and found out that the official readings of the x-rays

> had come back from the radiologist and Ben's arm wasn't broken after

> all. The lines that the original doctor had interpreted as cracks

> were actually channels and grooves in the bones where blood vessels

> and such entered the inside of the bone! He went back up there and

> had the soft cast removed and is working on exercises to get

loosened

> back up after being immobilized for over a week.

>

> Everything seems fine.

>

> I, of course, had been praying to Amma all along, and had

intensified

> these prayers the day before the magic all happened.

>

> Thank You Amma, for watching over us and our loved ones.

>

> Forever in Mother's care,

> mike

>

> The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who

> is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes

> toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God's favorite

place.

>

> --Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi Devi)

>