Rebirth by Julia Lehman-McTigue of Vision13.com
Today is Easter Sunday 2016, the day of rebirth.
I can relate to the concept of rebirth in my own small way. I nearly died four years ago and have come back to a very different kind of life.
My life-changing stroke happened to me on 18 March 2012. Someone was yelling at me over the phone while I was recovering from a coronary event. I was fragile. I’d warned him in advance not to call me unless he was willing to treat me with kindness, gentleness, and love. He didn’t take my warning seriously, and my life was changed in every possible way.
I am, according to one of my healers, a “walking miracle.” I felt my brain explode while on the phone with him, and I felt my brain bleed for weeks after. I don’t know why I didn’t die four years ago, but I am making the best possible use of my remaining time here to share and teach the transformational power of love.
I used what I learned about what had happened to me to help save my dog’s life when she was diagnosed with terminal splenic cancer the following year. I followed my vet’s holistic protocol. I knew I needed to do more than follow the vet’s holistic protocol. I wasn’t treated with love, so I showered her with love. I was criticized and yelled at, so I spoke words of love and support to her in a loving voice. I was disrespected, so I treated her with the utmost respect. I was abandoned by nearly all of the humans in my life during my time of need, so I dedicated my life to being there for her in every possible way and asking for prayers and blessings from as many people as possible.
The enormous tumor that surrounded her spleen and, according to the vet, probably her liver and kidney appeared to have vanished in a month. We didn’t do conventional cancer care. Putting a fourteen-year-old dog through surgery, chemo, or radiation felt very wrong and very selfish. I can’t prove it, but I have a deep knowing that giving and receiving love brought my dog back to me for two more precious years. She died last year at age sixteen, and not from cancer.
The accompanying photo of me was taken five months before the stroke by photographer extraordinaire Julia Lehman-McTigue of www.vision13.com. At the time of the shoot, I had no idea how prophetic it would be. I am still in the process of coming out of a dark place and embracing the beautiful light ahead of me. My left arm can almost do for me today what it did in that pre-stroke photo. That, in itself, is a miracle.
I have gone through most of what is described so beautifully in this video. For me, the worst part of living with a TBI is trying to explain what it’s like to others who don’t hear me, don’t believe me, and make assumptions instead of asking how they can be there for me. I wasn’t blessed to have family or a beloved or friends physically present for me during much of my recovery to date. I have no doubt I’d be a lot farther along in regaining what I’d lost if I’d had.
If you can be there for someone who has experienced any form of a TBI, know that your conscious presence, your love and support, your commitment to being there for another holds the potential for transformation…for both of you. My mom experienced a TBI in late 2006 that turned into the dementia that took her life in 2011. When I got the call that she was in the hospital, I remember feeling an excitement along with the love and concern. I knew that I’d been preparing for this moment. I knew I was about to transform through love. And I did. And so did she.
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. Thank you for watching this beautiful video of Melissa Wanna’s, another TBI survivor, and thank you for helping to spread Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness. May my rebirth join with the rebirth of many others who have survived their own TBI’s. And may my post educate many others who will help survivors of TBI’s create their own healing miracles.
(I have posted this video of Melissa Wanna’s without asking for or receiving permission to do so. I don’t know how to reach her. if posting this video is in any way disrespectful to her, let me know and I will immediately take it down. Thank you.
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