The Cupboard is bare!

“In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Tao, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way. It can’t be gained by interfering.”

 ~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Mum went back home Saturday afternoon.  She took with her my full supply of mushroom coffee, a bag of Spirulina for adding to her home made smoothies, and a Gratitude Book for daily practise - all with my love and blessing.

The slight irony of my magic coffee supply going off into the sunset with someone else when I had my own need for it, didn't escape me but luckily it made me laugh out loud.  Thank goodness for the Internet so I could replenish my stock!

The following Monday she was set to get a diary date to return to hospital to see the cardiologist. 

When the hospital appointment date came, 1st of October, I was working in Belgium, which didn't feel great to not be going with her, in her hour of need.  So I went into automatic default 'planning mode' and sat down with her and prepared a list of questions to go through with the cardiologist and report back.  We were both in ' let's face this and deal with whatever it means' mode!

Horses Field one sunset evening

What happened next took us all by surprise!

She was booked to spend the whole day at hospital having every heart test known to and designed by man!  The cost for each test made was enough to stop the strongest of hearts!

The day over, and she sat with the cardiologist to go through the results.  Next thing you know and mum was given the 'all clear'.  

The best the medical profession could come up with to explain this dramatic change in reading, was that the original equipment used to monitor her heart must have been faulty!  The whole thing was one big mistake!  Sorry!  They even asked her which machine the hospital used on her first time round?  Needless to say she had no idea! What an incredible approach.

I’ve written before about how Animal Vets seem to approach dramatic shifts in patience health, from totally the wrong direction.  Instead of asking my mum 'have you been doing anything different over the last month" and learning from that, they resort to logical, small minded irrational explanations like machine failure.  Well hang on, what if today's machines have failed too? Now where do we stand?   Has man lost all sense of imagination that we can't stop seeking petty logical explanations that illuminate nothing and suspend that for an instant to simply enquire if there is another explanation?  It seems not!

Back to my mum's heart then...

"So no dead heart muscle?"  "No!"

"No reason to delay the foot operation?"  "Nope!" 
 

"So not about to die then?"  "Not from heart issues!" 

Now if that's not a Miracle I don't know what is..!