If you are prone to colds, that would be something to be proactive about in the weeks or months before surgery, since a bad cold can cause you to lose your surgery date or at least add stress and depletion to your surgery experience. In the months following surgery, falling ill will delay your recovery…
If you are using Peggy Huddleston’s Heal Faster guided visualizations twice daily for at least one week before surgery (ideally two weeks) and a full week after, you can expect to have minimal discomfort post-surgery, easily managed with a mild NSAID like Ibuprofen or a non-psychoactive cannabis tincture (described elsewhere). But you will have had anesthesia…
I am inviting you to join me and many others in preparing for surgery and recovery in a thoughtful, intentional, systematic way. I invite you to begin and sustain a rigorous program of mental and physical training. Begin it today, and use it to make substantive change in as many aspects of your life as…
Today’s recommendation: Homeopathic Arnica for neutralizing the shock and trauma of surgery. Let’s be honest- even if you’ve been diligent with your mental and physical training (and especially if you haven’t), the experience of surgery is a wee bit traumatic. What can we do to help the body return to equilbrium? While homeopathy is sometimes…
Before offering today’s recommendation, a healing visualization called “Quantum K”, I want to review with you some guiding principles of Surgery Success: All recommendations personally benefited me in a way I could self-verify. The cost of each recommended practice/modality/tool is proportional to the perceived benefit. So… if I felt that the benefit was mild (or…
I just spoke with a woman in her 40’s who had a hip replaced 18 months ago and is preparing for her second. I asked how her 18 month scar looked. She said “It’s not so great. I wish I’d done more for it.” Scar care is like caring for a fern or a goldfish. It needs just a little bit…
I could easily have made it Ten Things. S/he isn’t telling you all kinds of things, because they are outside their domain. We’ve entered a world where super-specialization is the norm. The surgeon wants to know that your bone is growing into the artificial joint, or that the issues affecting a surgery like yours don’t require…
It’s having the right stuff on your phone. Meaning, audio tracks that when you listen to them, your anxiety and physical tension subside, and you are calm and focused afterwards. Maybe listening to Frank Ocean or Brahms did that for you once upon a time, but you’re under a bit of extra pressure, so I suggest…
We have all been ACCELERATED. We are all being buffeted by the news cycle. For at least a few days, and honestly for as long as is feasible for you, you would be wise to be take some time off from your usual pace and routines, including media consumption routines. I know, they’re likely…