My brother rushed to the hospital a few nights ago doubled over in a pain that he describes as the worst thing he has ever experienced in his life. An ultrasound showed several large gallstones that were blocking the bile ducts. Doctors said there was no choice, the whole gallbladder had to be removed.
This has become such a common procedure and doctors treat the removal of the gallbladder as routine surgery that it is easy to mistake the importance of our gallbladders. However, the gall bladder plays quite a vital role in our body and without it, one can be looking at a lifetime of digestive issues.
Upon hearing about my brother’s condition I just wanted to rush to Montreal to his bedside and protect his little gallbladder from those evil men in white coats that just want to kill it and throw it away! I couldn’t talk to Jay as he was in the hospital to voice how I really didn’t think he should have the surgery and that there were other options. And even if I couldn’t talk to him, I wondered if he would listen.
I am his little sister. His little sister who has adopted a new lifestyle and belief system that we can heal ourselves naturally, without drugs. Don’t get me wrong, allopathic medicine has its place and without it many people would not be alive today. But unlike many people, I see allopathic medicine as the last resort, not the first. I am so passionate about my new career, that I sometimes push my beliefs on others without realizing. I didn’t want to do that with Jay. I hoped he knew where I stood without having to say too much, but ultimately I had to leave this decision up to him.
Jason got sent home from the hospital for the day yesterday but was scheduled to return first thing in the morning, ready to lie on the operating table and be cut open. He called me & we got to talk for the first time since he was admitted. I almost had to sit down when he voiced the words ‘ I want to keep my gallbladder. I am willing try to do this naturally, and maybe that way I won’t need surgery tomorrow.” I may have not been that one to convince him but I lite up instantly with pride. Then my pride was instantly replaced by fear. I know how to clean a gallbladder and liver for that matter. I have even preformed a liver/gallbladder flush on myself. But never had I treated one that had stones in it. Large, obstructed stones for that matter. I also remember reading ‘ do not do this with someone who has stones.’ And also remember reading the words ‘ risk of death’! I warned him of the consequences (without using the ‘d’ word;) and he said he was still willing to try. He is braver than I. I immediately contacted all my amazing peers to get their opinion. I put him in touch with my colleague and my friend M-J (www.livewise.ca) who has a lot more experience than I in these cleanses. She guided him through it and he followed everything she said. Now it was the waiting game. A game I suck royally at, especially when it concerns my bro.
I stayed by the phone for the rest of the day, praying this cleanse would work. I imagined him going to the hospital the next morning and shocking all the doctors because the stones had magically disappeared. That would have been nice. But cleanses don’t work like that, especially for some one with a gallbladder issue. It takes time and takes a few cleanses to work fully.
Being new to natural medicine, or any medicine for that matter, Jason wasn’t sure if the cleanse worked so he kept his appointment for surgery in the morning. It was out of my hands, it was out of M-J’s hands and it was out of Ely’s hands, his wonderful girlfriend who never left his side throughout this whole ordeal. It was now between Jay, the doctors and the universe. And luckily the universe won. Jay was on the right path but like so many of us we get confused by outside influence and lose confidence in our decisions. That is why the universe had to step in and help guide him. It was not because of a faulty Medicare card. It is because Jason was not supposed to have that surgery.
I am now on my way to Montreal to be with my brother and help get him better naturally and without the need of a Medicare card. It may not be due to his confidence in me or in natural medicine; it may be just because he has no other choice. Either way, I am given the opportunity of a lifetime – literally. All my life I have been his little sister, the one he was told to protect and look after. That role has been embedded in his brain and has carried this role even to today, 31 years later. Jason has been my rock through everything. My blood and my family, very little of what I have left of. He is the only person on this planet who knows absolutely everything about me and the only one who has shared my darkness. We have an indestructible bond that I cherish everyday. That is why today, I have been blessed. I am finally given the opportunity to repay a little of all my brother has given me.
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