Seems like forever ago, after overnighting at Mum’s one Friday, I woke to hear moaning. Bleary-eyed, I saw my mother (@ 69 yrs young) swerving, slamming alternately into the right, then the left walls down the corridor to the kitchen. Mum’s head hung limply. Her face was so pale, expressionless and her eyes vacant. Mum’s legs buckled under as she stumbled trying to support herself. This was the first of 2 strokes to strike in the next 48 hours. She adamantly refused medical help, rallied Saturday afternoon, took a brisk walk. I overnighted and woke Sunday to “stroke replay”. Mum careening into walls again! Mum visits a neuro-physician and her CAT scan confirmed 2 strokes. She left the hospital unsteady, but refusing assistance, gripping a cartia prescription. Old school, anti-drugs that she is, it was promptly binned in the nearest trashcan, on the premise that her daughter (that’s ever-patient me) being a nutritionist, could improve on cartia. I know better now, but the neurophysician should have guided her to physiotherapy and counselling, not merely written a script for a fancy and more expensive version of aspirin.
Well – actually, Mum turned out to be right. I drew up a nutrition plan. Ensured ooodles of essential nutrients, plus morning, noon and night juices. To thin the blood, I replaced cartia with evening primrose oil and added Spirulina powder to the morning juice. Yes, she did flabbergast the neuro-physician with her rate of recovery. We failed to mention that she had binned her prescription. Side effects were her occasional, sudden exhaustion, slurred speech, severe apathy, sudden/serious crankiness and memory lapses, including word/phraseology scrambling (aphasia).
I burrowed, researched and discovered Bach Flower remedies. I enrolled, studied and qualified as a Bach Flower Therapist. Filed under the ‘molly’s recipes’ on this blog is a page titled: ‘molly’s bach flower stroke remedy’, where I’ve provided the stroke remedy I created and make-up for Mum that works magic for the after-effects of her stroke, the apathy, slurring, fatigue and aphasia, cheers catchul8r molly
I really enjoyed reading this Molly. Roxanne
Something seems dreadfully awry when so many ordinary folk are medicated to the eyeballs (and so regularly now for depression). We have become “medicalised” to a ridiculous point. Your approach to your treating/healing your mother’s stroke obviously worked, and seems to me to be a victory in having the courage, and the sense, to empower oneself – instead giving one’s power away to the “powers that be”, in this case, the medical professional – to draw on the unfailing power to heal of the natural world. This approach seems to be one of logic,simplicity and common sense.
Mum’s a lucky mum to have you and your skills. Those natural remedies do work miracles. I need to do some backtracking on reading and re-familiarizing myself with your remedies. I’ve been drinking cups of hibiscus to relax for a few months now. It’s been a great de-stressor for me. I know you know all about hibiscus.
Thank you so much for all you did, primarily keeping your head and using common sense as well as huge knowledge gained by hours of study and reading up on herbs etc.
Your mom sounds wonderfully stubborn. She’s lucky to have you.
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