Simone's Story - Infantile leukaemia

NEW LIFE

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

WHAT ARE WE HERE FOR? Whose script do we follow?

What inner voices do we respond to? Who is running the inner programmes?

What is health/disease?

What is ‘real’?

Whose ‘real’ is most real?

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

SIMONE’S LIFE •  Born – 12.9.87 5lb 6oz

•  400 gram placenta, very dried out. ACUTE leukaemia – born to die

First visit 27.9.87 •  Scrawny, sleepy scrap of humanity •  Liver and Spleen very enlarged, Haemorrhaged from bowel

•  Green poo very, very coloured urine

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

SIMONE’S PROGNOSIS

“There is no hope”.

“She will die within the next couple of weeks – do you want to leave her here to die, or

take her home to die”?

What would you have done?

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

SIMONE’S STORY? Gracefully live each breath to

the best of my ability

Maybe it is not up to me, or you

Maybe we are just players to assist the one who is my

dad/doctor/whomever here listening today . . .

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

ONCOLOGIST’S STORY

Even if one chance in a million that chemotherapy may help, he would not do it as would

radically injure her developing brain.

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

IS SHE TO LIVE? What if that is not a given, & all we have to do is follow the steps as they

appear?

What if this is all we EVER have to do? What if all any of us need to do is to

follow, rather than lead . . . AND Live more in our hearts and less in our

heads. . .

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

QUESTIONS What are we trying to prove by

performing any intervention?

That we are better than . . . That we can conquer . . .

Is the will of ???? to be done, or our’s, or their personality’s . . .

‘it hurts’ etc

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

Asking the Obvious Is death an enemy? Is ‘life’ our friend?

Why has this being arrived with me, now?

DO I DO ANYTHING?

What script do I need to access to even start?

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

WHAT DID DAD DO? •  Listen to a work colleague who said

that his wife may be able to help . . .

•  Decided to give her a go, as there was not one thing to lose –

hope had departed, so why not try the ridiculous?

HOPE

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

WHAT DID I DO? Assume that I had no idea why/what

to do.

That she was with me, and dad had agreed for some reason, and to just

follow

whatever happened next - it would become obvious

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

WHAT WAS I THINKING?

• Palliative care. • Treat what was in front of me.

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

•  What do we do instead? •  Hide behind a mask/façade?

•  Look blank, and say nothing to be done? •  Try to ‘fix’ it?

•  Give it our best shot?

•  Let go and be a conduit for whatever?

• ACCEPT NO LIMITATIONS

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

PLAYERS • Mum - wants this horror to end quickly • Dad - wants daughter to be perfect • Baby - (Simone) ??????

• Heather - anything is possible • Other healers – as required – bit parts • Dianne (Reiki) – “absent” and on site

healing as needed/unconditional loving

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

TREATMENT STRATEGIES

ASK FOR ASSISTANCE In any area

Look to life what SHOULD be happening?

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

TIBETAN BUDDHIST MEDICINE

•  All beings, whatever form, are exposed to different forms of suffering.

•  Whether ‘healthy’ or not, we all have latent diseases awaiting.

•  Origins of all – IGNORANCE – gives rise to desire, gives rise to hatred, pride, jealousy, harsh speech, more obscuration,

and around it goes . . . .

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

DISORDERS/ “CAUSE” 1 - Actions pre ‘now’ (karma fruiting)

2 - Of this lifetime - earlier on this lifetime, coming through later (this

now) 3 - Involving spirits

4 - Superficial – follow lifestyle and behaviour patterns and will not need

external assistance.

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

WHAT ABOUT ALL OF THEM

simultaneously?

Who says it is all or nothing? What if the reason for it all has to

be attended to FIRST?

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

YANG/resonant – density/YIN

•  Souls in transit

•  Having a human experience within a mammalian wrapper

• The journey IS the destination

•  Physical ‘real’ world •  Science/evidence

based/ ‘facts’/data •  Body is raw

material

• Death & disease are to be eradicated

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

ACUPUNCTURE/TUI NA As she presented

When clotting became unlikely - Metamorphic technique

REIKI

Always – love, intention, & Dad’s will to fight

PRIMARY PATIENT - DAD

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

WHAT STIRRED DAD THE MOST?

•  Seeing her death certificate awaiting only a date and signature, PLUS her near bleeding out – at the same hospital visit.

•  Her parents’ acceptance of her imminent departure lead to her changing her script.

•  Then we married east and west, until remission – then west won

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

WHAT WAS MOST EFFECTIVE?

BEING PRESENT

& hassling Dad to accept what was going on in the minute, & not accepting what anyone else (even me) had to say.

What did HE what for HER?

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

SIMONE’S WELLNESS HEAT BLOOD SHEN

1 URINE ü ü 2 COLOUR OF

POO ü ü 3 COMPLEXION ü 4 RED IN EYES ü 5 ALERTNESS ü ü 6 APPETITE ü 7 DISTRESS ü ü ü 8 SLEEPING ü ü 9

BLEEDING ü ü

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

WHEN DID ‘HOPE’ SPRING FOR THE MEDICAL AUTHORITIES?

When she looked like she was

‘in remission’

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

HOW DID WE GET THERE?

8 weeks after commencing twice daily 90 minute sessions with Heather, many

hands on, and more Reiki hands off (absent) encounters with Dianne.

PLUS Prednisone,

& numerous whole blood transfusions – all against the medical advice, as they thought it slowing the inevitable . . .

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

MUM’S ULTIMATUM

Either you agree to starting chemotherapy immediately, or you

leave & the medical lawyers will take over Simone’s guardianship.

WHY? Prednisone has never cured a case of leukaemia. (She will die if we do

not try to save her . . . )

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

WHAT DO WE GO WITH?

Physical ‘real’ world – the ‘evidence’

Death & disease are to be eradicated

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

We are souls in transit

OUR SPIRIT SOARING? The journey IS the

destination

Amsterdam 2007 HEATHER BRUCE

PROGNOSIS

DEPENDS upon WHETHER

WE CHOOSE TO WORK

with OR against

LIFE/SPIRIT AND NATURAL FLOWS