Rei-ki Helps Mother and Baby in multiple surgical crisis

by Margaret, Melbourne, Victoria

At age 38, my daughter Karen suffered two ruptured aneurysms in the brain in her 29th week of pregnancy. Although in tremendous pain, she was able to first telephone me and then the ambulance. Although I live 30 minutes away I arrived before the ambulance, to find my daughter in a very painful and distressed state, obviously in shock. The ambulance officers tried to pass it off as migraine and only took her to the hospital because she was pregnant. An MRI scan found that there was a massive brain haemorrhage and the doctors indicated that there was not much hope.

From the moment my daughter arrived at the Angliss hospital in Melbourne at 9.45 am, to the time she was transported to St Vincents Neurology ward, where she was operated on at 8.00 pm, I never stopped giving her rei-ki. A gynaecologist from the Mercy Hospital monitored the baby in utero during the brain operation (they don’t deliver babies at St V’s). Next morning the doctors delivered the distressed baby girl, Abby, by Caesarean section, on my daughter’s birthday. Abby weighed just one Kg, and I was able to touch her before she was taken to the Women’s Hospital to spend the next three months.

At the end of her first week in hospital, Karen suffered a stroke during an ECG. Every day for three weeks I spent time giving my daughter rei-ki, and at times my daughter didn’t even know me or know that I was there. Following brain surgery and the Caesarian, she developed serious deep vein thrombosis, and the clots were travelling to her lungs. So it was back to Haematology at St V’s for an operation to insert a filter into her pulmonary artery to catch the clots.

It’s been a long haul, but I am so happy to say that both mum and baby are doing fine. Two miracles. Baby is still tiny but progressing, and now over one year old, and mum is going to be on medication for the rest of her life but that is her only impairment. No one, including doctors and nurses, expected them to live, let alone with no disabilities, but they don’t know the strength of rei-ki.

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