Scleroderma case

 

A very interesting physical change has been noticed by my client from Germany, who has systemic, progressive Scleroderma. Systemic means, it's all over his body, attacking organs, making his skin hard like leather und unflexible, his hands are tight, hard and bent into claws. Progressive means the disease is progressing fast. He has problems with the blood supply in his body, especially to his extremities. At every doctor's visit, he gets heart and lungs checked for symptoms of the disease.

Right now he is getting problems with his esophagus. Obviously it too has hardened, become unflexible, so he has problems and pain when he swallows food.

 

We had our first phone session last Thursday, June 17 for just one hour. I only addressed his disease in general as a problem, such as:

 

Even though I have this illness….. I am okay

Even though I am afraid I will never get over this illness …. I am okay

Even though I am afraid to deal with this problem ….

Even though I can't believe there is any help for me … I am okay with me and my poor, sick body

 

Even though Baerbel tells me there might be relief… I am afraid to have any hopes….. because it's painful to be disappointed again … and because all Doctors told me it's incurable …. and I have to live with it ….

I choose to be open to participate in the therapy ….. and I'm still okay

 

Even though it's hard for me to trust …. that there could be positive changes in how I live with this illness…. and there she comes and tells me so … it's hard to believe …. I am afraid of being disappointed again …..

 

and even though she represents hope for me …. and I just feel her confidence about being able to make positive changes in my disease….. I am still okay

 

Even though I might not be able or willing to do everything to lessen my problems …. I am still okay……

 

Even though I have this illness …. I am okay just the way I am …. and I accept my body the way it is…

 

On our second session Friday June 18, he was very excited to tell me about this:

 

He has had an open wound on his finger for more than one year.

This wound would hurt, be inflamed and not heal at all, no matter what the doctors tried. So again, they told him he had to live with it! On the morning after our first session the crust on the wound broke open and started to discharge a lot of puss. Then it closed, cleanly, without any discomfort whatsoever.

That experience is not only good for his health, most of all it was a GREAT motivator for him, to hope again. This made him believe, that there still is power within himself, that he still will be able to accomplish positive changes for himself. It will help a lot, because it changed his mindset, he now strongly WANTS to go forward.

 

Wow! I do like my job, you know!

I'll keep you posted on this ongoing work. I just can't help feeling very positive about possible improvements, always have.

 

 

Follow-Up

 

After our second phone session my Scleroderma client told me, he had noticed quite a bit of tingling in his otherwise numb, hard fingers.

I like what I am hearing….

Just wanted to let you know, changes for the better are happening already!

 

Follow-Up

 

Still going on "with Turbo"…..

Six weeks have passed and I've been working on the phone, doing EFT across the Atlantic with my Scleroderma client in Germany. Improvements so far have been quite a few, physically and emotionally. He has now cut his meds dramatically, lowering the Cortison he used to take in very high doses. He is able to do that because the inflammation in his body is decreasing. His doctor did a blood test recently to measure the inflammation in his body. Before, his numbers was always somewhere between 40 to 70. Now he is at 20; 10 would be considered a normal, healthy number. He has never been at 20 since he has been diagnosed and tested. This is medical proof of his progress. For his decreasing pain he now needs less and less medication; during the last two weeks all together he only took a dose twice; before he often needed a big dose 3 times a day.

 

Because of the hardening of his esophagus swallowing was getting painful for my client. It seems he can now swallow without problems.

 

Because of the hardening of the skin on his hands, shoulders and face he has needed massages twice a week. The massage therapist mentioned to him the other day that the skin on his hands, which used to be extremely tight and tough, now definitely is becoming smoother, more elastic and flexible. It also has improved in thickness, especially on his knuckles. Before the skin there was paper thin; you could see the bone underneath.

 

The emotional improvement is amazing. I am still coaching him through practical changes he needed to do in his work (he has his own business). He needed to turn his life around quite a bit and he did!  He now takes times out during the day for himself, to rest, to pause, to do some exercise. He has taken up swimming again and started running at a slow pace. That's the man who couldn't do any exercise anymore, because his body was hurting too much.

 

We have done a lot of tapping on his anger and frustration, on his grief and despair. The way he started to hate his body, because it refused to do what he wanted it to do; we tapped on that and we're still not finished.

         

Even though I hate my body …. I can't do anything any more ….. all the things my body used to do so well for me…. and I always could rely on it …. can't do it anymore … it's a joke …. can't even hold a pen anymore …. can't do the work I love any more ….. took it away from me ….

 

Even though I am being punished …. don't know what for ….. everything that was ever important to me …. my body refuses to do now ….

 

..I now choose to accept my body …. it is my oldest, very best friend ….. just the way it is!

I now choose to understand ….. I have to learn how to treat my body …. like my oldest, very best friend!

 

I believe we have also found an important clue of why he had to become sick; why he got this illness and what it has served him for. That will be the stuff for another up-date though. In any case, it is possible for him to believe that he can be well again. Right now it looks as if the progression of Scleroderma has stopped. Looks like it has even started to reverse in some areas. His immune system seems to work FOR him now, instead of AGAINST him earlier.

 

A NOTE: My client has always been an "over achiever". He has for ever pushed himself over his limits, and that could be one of the reasons he'd gotten this illness in the first place. The good thing is, that we can now turn his ambitions around and use his way of extreme commitment for his own benefits.

 

Much more is there to do in his case. That's why he'll visit me in Colorado in August and we will do some intense one-on-one work. I will keep you posted on that.

 

NOTE:

I have never before dealt with Scleroderma issues in the past. That does not keep me from believing, that we can achieve positive changes in this disease or the connected symptoms. I am convinced that changes WILL happen through EFT. As we create changes in our belief system and get rid of old stuff, the physical changes will always follow. Whatever I can find and get my client to release, any painful issue of guild or anger that he can let go of, will get us much closer to physical improvements.

Look for my next reports on that on www.emofree.com  and Betty's Website.