rissababynta
Mar 11, 2010, 7:41 PM
One of my close friends from childhood is very ill. She has small vessels disease and chronic headache syndrom. She has been given approximately 5 years to live and she was diagnosed 2 years ago. They want to try to get her headaches to go away before they attempt to treat her swollen brain, but after accupuncture, accupressure, a string of medications and some herbal remedies, she is still in horrible cripling pain. Now, the thing is she has a two year old daughter, and she has only herself and her husband (when he is not working) to take care of her. She is obviously having a hard time doing so given the pain she is in, and she doesn't want to live the rest of her years this way. She didn't come right out and say it to me, but from how she was talking and certain things she was saying, I strongly believe she is contimplating suicide right now to get away from it all. As much as I don't agree with that, I can't deny that I don't blame her. I can't imagine what she must be going through.
She gave me her permission to attempt to make her a few remedies since she used to be a practicing wiccan and she knows that my husband and I are pagan and have both studied herbalism. At this point, I don't know if even a blessed tea would help her, but since nothing else has worked she feels it's worth a shot. I know that nothing at this point is really going to save her, but if I could do something to make her as comfortable as possible until it progresses to the point where she is gone, then I want to try.
So basically, this thread is NOT about bashing pagans, debating (or fighting) over religion or any of the other bullshit that's been going on here lately. I'm not in the mood for that shit. Whoever feels the need to do that will be put on my ignore list and anyone else who decides to feed into that will be put on my list as well because I am SO NOT in the mindset to deal with that. This thread is about enlisting the help of my other friends who know about herbalism and magick (I can think of a few of you pagans here) and I need to know if any of you are willing to help me here and privately away from the forum to see if we can get a strong energy of prayers her way. For others, please prayer to whoever it is that you believe in that her pain will be relieved soon. For those of you with no faith, please, just keep her in your positive thoughts every now and then.
I'm not one to dwell upon my beliefs and what I do to practice my beliefs here, but this is a rare case and I'm putting my private shit out there now. I can't bare to have my friend wanting to end her life to get away from her illness and I can't bare the thought of her daughters mother being taken away sooner than what would have to be.
She gave me her permission to attempt to make her a few remedies since she used to be a practicing wiccan and she knows that my husband and I are pagan and have both studied herbalism. At this point, I don't know if even a blessed tea would help her, but since nothing else has worked she feels it's worth a shot. I know that nothing at this point is really going to save her, but if I could do something to make her as comfortable as possible until it progresses to the point where she is gone, then I want to try.
So basically, this thread is NOT about bashing pagans, debating (or fighting) over religion or any of the other bullshit that's been going on here lately. I'm not in the mood for that shit. Whoever feels the need to do that will be put on my ignore list and anyone else who decides to feed into that will be put on my list as well because I am SO NOT in the mindset to deal with that. This thread is about enlisting the help of my other friends who know about herbalism and magick (I can think of a few of you pagans here) and I need to know if any of you are willing to help me here and privately away from the forum to see if we can get a strong energy of prayers her way. For others, please prayer to whoever it is that you believe in that her pain will be relieved soon. For those of you with no faith, please, just keep her in your positive thoughts every now and then.
I'm not one to dwell upon my beliefs and what I do to practice my beliefs here, but this is a rare case and I'm putting my private shit out there now. I can't bare to have my friend wanting to end her life to get away from her illness and I can't bare the thought of her daughters mother being taken away sooner than what would have to be.