Well, a very good Saturday evening, October 20, 2018 @ 22:43:54 MT to you. I have been gone for a while but I had a purposeful time. We will talk a lot about my recent experiences as they were/are meant to help sculpt my future.
I’m Back In The Saddle Again! is today’s blog theme. Gene Autry; who was the Anaheim Angels owner at one time, wrote and sang this song in the early 40’s. As a child, I remember singing it with him. He in his cowboy shirt holding his guitar and singing to the moon leaning against a rock. Memories!
“I`m back in the saddle again
Out where a friend is a friend
Where the longhorn cattle feed
On the lowly gypsum weed
Back in the saddle again”
WOW! What I know about the California gypsum weed, known there as “locoweed” causes very specific symptoms for intoxication. The patient is 1) Red as a beet. 2) Blind as a bat and 3) Mad as a hatter. Every year we had some stupid teen try it for fun during the years that we lived in the Mojave Desert. It’s very dangerous. Toxic. That’s why I find this song strange today. Most free range cattle avoid it and do not “feed” on it.
Back to today’s theme I’m Back In The Saddle Again. D and I had been on a journey. We left home Sunday afternoon and returned on Thursday afternoon. We drove to the Aspen, Colorado area and stayed in a real nice hotel called the Element Basalt. Bright and early Monday morning, D and I navigated ourselves to Aspen Integrated Medicine in Basalt, CO. We were met by the lovely office manager, Tanya and we had a nice chat before Dr John Hughes arrived to begin my scheduled treatments. What a day it was! I had no idea of the extent of treatment I would receive.
I was in Dr Hughes’ wheelhouse and because I am a willingly compliant patient I seemed to take each segment of treatment like a trooper. Dr Hughes’ gentle and kind appointment made it easy for me to follow his instructions and successfully complete each task. Around 1:30 I was sent to another facility for hard chamber hyperbaric. Kirk attends to each of his patients with such tender care. I had three afternoons in a row with him and the second and third dives I slept through. It was the best sleep I had in over 2.5 years!
Back to the first day….following the dive I had another appointment with a Dr. who reminded me of a retired surfer. I did not know what I was going to experience but I trusted that if Dr Hughes sent me there, it would be fine. This Dr’s name is Dave. The receptionist gave D and I a brochure to read about the procedure I was going to have done to my head. Reading it pretty much frightened me. D did not want to go in with me either so I reached down into the very depths of my spirit and tugged at my boot straps just moments before I was escorted to a room that appeared to be his office/treatment room. Again, the receptionist scared me a bit by showing me the tray of the objects he was going to use. Dr Dave was kind but on a mission to get me treated. He heard my brief description of the head injury I had suffered and invited me to lay on the patient table.
Dr Dave treats the skull (cranium) for fractures/misalignment of its 22 facial and 6 skull bones. (Dr Hughes told me two days later that Dr Dave treats the dents and tweaks in the bony structure of a skull like a car body specialist works out the damages on the exterior of a vehicle. That made sense to me!) Dr Dave’s technique is called Nasal Cranial Release. Dr Dave stepped me through each event I experienced. I was put back together! There was a lot of unexpected sounds inside of my head but instantly I felt better in many ways. Even my eyesight was improved.
This is as far as I am going to write tonight. I am elated at the amazing things I experienced while under the care of Dr Hughes, Kirk and Dr Dave. What an experience!
I have been in my chamber for 50 minutes already. The dive is great. I forgot my personal fan so I am sweating a bit. I am ready to end this dive because I am still so tired/exhausted from this past week. I’m only going to be here one hour.
I’m Back In The Saddle Again is so true. I chose to receive the excellent treatments from Dr Hughes to get me back to living life more fully and satisfyingly. Many years ago God told me that His Psalm for me is 18. He called it Suzanne of War. I have held on to that promise and I am delighted to see it blooming today in my heart. It’s a bit long, but so is my beautiful and God-managed life.
Hugs always,
Suz
Enjoy:
Adonai lives! Blessed Be My Rock
Psalm 18
1 For the music director: a psalm of David the servant of Adonai. He chanted the words of this song to Adonai on the day Adonai delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.
2 He said, I love You, Adonai my strength!
3 Adonai is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer.
My God is my rock, in Him I take refuge,
my shield, my horn of salvation, my stronghold.
4 I called upon Adonai, worthy of praise,
and I was rescued from my enemies.
5 Cords of death entangled me.
Torrents of Belial overwhelmed me.
6 Cords of Sheol coiled around me.
Snares of death came before me.
7 In my distress I called on Adonai,
and cried to my God for help.
From His Temple He heard my voice,
my cry before Him came into His ears.
8 Then the earth rocked and quaked.
The foundations of mountains trembled.
They reeled because He was angry.
9 Smoke rose from His nostrils
and consuming fire from His mouth.
Coals blazed from Him.
10 He parted the heavens and came down,
with thick darkness under His feet.
11 He rode upon a cheruv and flew.
He soared on the wings of the wind.
12 He made darkness His cover,
His sukkah all around Him—
dark waters, thick clouds.
13 Out of the brilliance before Him
passed His thick clouds, hail and fiery coals.
14 Adonai also thundered in the heavens,
and Elyon gave forth His voice, hail and fiery coals.
15 He shot His arrows and scattered them,
hurled lightning bolts and routed them.
16 Then ravines of water appeared.
The foundations of earth were exposed,
at Your rebuke, Adonai,
at a blast of breath from Your nostrils.
17 He reached down from on high
and took hold of me.
He drew me out of mighty waters.
18 He saved me from my powerful enemy,
from those who hated me—
for they were much stronger than me.
19 They came against me in my day of calamity,
but Adonai was my support.
20 He brought me out to a wide-open place.
He rescued me since He delighted in me.
21 Adonai rewarded me for my righteousness.
For the cleanness of my hands He repaid me.
22 For I kept the ways of Adonai,
and did not turn wickedly from my God.
23 For all His judgments are before me.
I do not put His rulings away from me.
24 I also had integrity with Him,
and kept myself from my sin.
25 So Adonai rewarded me for my righteousness,
for the cleanness of my hands in His eyes.
26 With the loyal You deal loyally.
With the blameless You are blameless.
27 With the pure You are pure,
and with the crooked You are shrewd.
28 For You save lowly people,
but haughty eyes You humble.
29 For You light up my lamp.
Adonai my God shines in my darkness.
30 For with You I rush on a troop,
with my God I scale a wall.
31 As for God, His way is perfect.
The word of Adonai is pure.
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.
32 For who is God, except Adonai?
And who is a Rock, except our God?
33 God girds me with strength
and makes my way straight.
34 He makes my feet like those of deer
and makes me stand on my heights.
35 He trains my hands for battle,
so my arms can bend a bronze bow.
36 You gave me the shield of Your salvation.
Your right hand upholds me,
Your gentleness makes me great.
37 You broaden my steps beneath me,
so my ankles have not slipped.
38 I pursue my enemies and overtake them,
and will not return till they are wiped out.
39 I will crush them till they cannot rise,
till they fall beneath my feet.
40 For You girded me with strength for battle.
You made those who rose up against me bow down before me.
41 You also made my enemies turn their backs to me.
I cut off those who hate me.
42 They cry out, but there is none to save
—even to Adonai, but He did not answer them.
43 Then I beat them as fine as dust before the wind.
I pour them out like mud in the streets.
44 You free me from strifes of the people.
You set me as head of the nations—
people I did not know are serving me.
45 As soon as they hear, they obey me.
Children of foreigners cringe before me.
46 Children of foreigners lose heart
and come trembling from their hideouts.
47 Adonai lives! And blessed be my Rock!
Exalted be God my salvation!
48 God—He gives me vengeance
and subdues peoples under me.
49 He delivers me from my enemies.
Indeed You lift me up above those who rise up against me.
You deliver me from the violent man.
50 Therefore I praise You among the nations,
Adonai, and sing praises to Your Name.[a]
51 Great victories He gives to His king.
He shows loyal love to His anointed—
to David and his seed, forever.
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