knickers on the clothesline in their rainbow order
by Pauline June Ross (who survived)
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Okay, time for a list of things that she had, and knew ---
She had the RECORDER she was good at PALINDROMES, she meditated through the MRI, she had the ROCK, she knew of the GUN. She understood ? the LABYRINTH, she had a lovely HAT with a tassel. She wrote and sketched, and don’t forget DASHER. And she was thinking of starting a MARSHMELLOW club.
So she had and knew many things, but not enough. There must be an answer.
She had many books A Bible, Deepak Chopra. Ramptha, A Course In Miracles. Edgar Cayce, Bertrand Russell, Seth. Archimedes Takes A Bath -- maybe not that one.
On to music. Beethovan was strong. Didjerido was restful. Andrew Weil was quieting. Tibetan Buddism Chanting the same. Maybe not reggae, maybe not Jazz. Philosophy, religion, music, but what did she know for herself?
She remembered when her kids were five or six, playing happily in the garden. She was sitting under an archway she had built, and planted with flowereing vines. Everything was calm and quiet and gentle, husband away.
She looked at the cherry tree across the garden, small and sour. She did not see the tree, but an energy field. What is that? Then it was gone.
leaves of
tree
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energy field
        of tree
Having some knowledge of energy fields, she decided her energy field was off balance. And she knew in a most gloomy and embarrasing way, when she had to start using catheters. Her nervous system was not getting through to her muscles. And parts of her body requiring muscles. What did not?
Not too be too overwhelmed, she made a rhyme---

      “If your bladder
      Makes you madder
      Using a catheter
      Doesn’t matheter
      ‘Cos now I know
      Now I know
      It’s just another
      Way to go”
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Then she looked up catheter in the Oxford English Dictionary and there it was --- Catheter - ΚΑΘΕΤΕΡ 'To Let Down'
The Ancient Greeks were good at making up words ---The English speaking people (and others) were good at pinching them.


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Talking to a friend who said she knew another woman whose energy field was off balance, and she re-aligned herself really well. She saw Dr. Holly. She gave her a business card.
Off she went.
Dr. Holly was a kind woman, knowledgable and gentle, most calming. She explained her role was re-aligning energy fields in a physical sense.
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correct energy field
(unseen but known to be there)
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incorrect energy field
(?)

They discussed the horror of being catheter (you know the Greek) dependant. Dr.Holly explained that the bladder was one of the first things to go back to normal, it would happen soon.
She saw Dr. Holly regularly, ten times, twenty times, a lot more. Her nervous system came back into contact with her muscles. Slowly her skin became soft and energized. She looked younger than a woman who is some-where in the middle. She became slowly stronger and more optimistic. After a while she no longer needed to use the catheters.
It was a wonderful day, a great day! She became even more certain that Dr. Holly knew whereof she spoke.
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She made Dr. Holly a card, in appreciation of simply knowing her, and never having to use catheters again.


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the card


She got on well with Dr. Holly, who asked her what she liked to be called.
“I am Polly.”
She gave her not drugs, but a natural substance her body was short of, who knows why? She gave her a very particular calcium, to paraphase Horace,
“Calcium decorum est”. Calcium is fitting. Calcium EAP.
What caused all of this? Maybe a virus? Maybe too many amalgam fillngs? Maybe herpes simplex, she was prone to cold sores. Maybe she was too clever, and had zapped a mental circuit. Maybe she had made up too many palindromes, and had her mental knickers in a twist.
“Yon Cassius hath a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much, such men are dangerous”. He came to a bad end too. He killed himself, a Roman way of saving face. (Shakespeare)


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At this time Polly started seeing a Physiotherapist, now that her nervous system was back into contact with her muscles. (look at the muscles on the card) Nice, eh?

Physiotherapist ΦΨΣΙΚΟΣ ΘΕΡΑΠΕΙΑ
  Physicos Therapiea

Here the Oxford English Dictionary let her down. The words she used meant Nature and Healing. Must be correct. And the myelin sheath was rebuilding itself, myelin - μυελος a fatty sheath, and along with the myelin sheath, her muscles!
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copyright © text and illustrations  Pauline June Ross 2001, 2002
(and Sarah)


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