The Power of Positive Thinking

[peleroja]

While the decline of my kidneys was due to high blood pressure, the immediate demise, if you will was due to Zocor, which gave me rhabdomyolisis.  In the simplest of terms, your body consumes your muscles, hence weak as a kitten, but I digress.  When I went into the hospital with rhabdo 5 years ago, I had 18% kidney function.  After 2 days without peeing I saw my doc and asked if I would ever pee again.  He told me, "Your kidneys have taken too big a hit."  Knowing in my heart of hearts that doctors are not the be-all and end-all, while I lay in the hospital bed for the next 3 days, I visualized Niagara Falls over and over again.  On the fourth day I felt that familiar twinge, wrestled myself out of bed and peed for the first time in 4 days.  Man was it ugly.  I'm talking BROWN!  I think that had something to do with the high potassium (7.9).  Anyway, by the time I left I was peeing up a storm (pale yellow, thank you very much), and I continue to pee to this day.  How much I pee depends on how much I drink and what kind of fluid I use for my PD (I know, that's a whole other section on IHD).

So, I'm here to tell you, don't listen to the doctors; they don't know everything.  Get a second, third or fourth opinion.  There is no accounting for someone with attitude!!!!!

[boxman55]

"There is no accounting for someone with attitude!!!!!"


Amen...Boxman

[pelagia]

I completely agree with this idea!  I have done many things in life that people told me I could not do.  I am very stubborn 

I also use the visualization approach.  I once had to talk to 4,000 people and boy was I nervous about that.  I practiced by imagining myself talking to a few folks in the front row.  That worked just fine and I got through my speech easily.  Then just a few minutes after I finished, some folks in the audience starting protesting against a former political figure who was on the stage with me at the same event.  I guarantee that everyone completely forgot what I had said anyway, so good thing I didn't stress 

[stauffenberg]

I studied medical self-hypnosis many years ago and perfected my technique so well that I could literally go into a 'death trance' on giving myself the proper post-hypnotic suggestion, during which my pulse and blood pressure would fall away almost to zero.  When I was struggling during the three-month period of alternating recoveries and relapses from an autoimmune attack on the kidneys, I often used positive visualization techniques during extended periods of hypnosis in order to enlist the full power of the subconscious mind for a cure.  Although my renal biopsy at the beginning of the struggle indicated that I had a 60% chance of making a full recover on the basis of biology alone, by the time I was through with all those many hours of positive vizualization, I was down to a 0 % chance, since I had developed endstage renal failure.  I'm still waiting to hear if I get my money back from my hypnosis training.

[pelagia]

  and not funny at the same time...