Last night and again tonight we are staying in the Waihi Beach Top 10 camping ground, as the great house that we were so kindly able to use for the last four nights is no longer available. This camping ground is outstanding though. It has a heated pool, a spa, a sauna, pet eels just like at Willowbank in ChCh that you can feed, and we are again surrounded by pohutakawa and gorgeous birdlife.. Pirika and Martha have been having a ball - the pool has a water slide/mini hydro slide so they have been hurtling themselves down that all day yesterday and are doing the same again right now as I type this . I think we may have scored the best powered site in the entire campground as we are about 20 steps from the pool and spa and can sit in the campervan and easily supervise the littles frolicking in the water from the campervan window. The beach is about 2mins walk away and it is a glorious beach. Lots of exploring live rockpools and dark stone formations. We got you a rock from here Amber :)
Less idyllic than the above is the damn sciatic type leg hip pain that Jacky STILL has. She can hardly walk with it. Appears to have floored Wolf even how long this is taking to heal - although he keeps telling us that the nerve damage was quite severe so therefore it will take a while to repair. Still very disheartening after being here for 2 weeks. My poor love is handling it so well - mostly. Although any of you who have suffered with constant pain of any kind know well that it GETS YOU DOWN :(
Jacky is going to have accupuncture this weekend from a friend of lovely Kates and will hopefully get some relief from this curse. We see Wolf again this morning and he can literally make pain disappear by laying his hands on you. This may be our last visit with Wolf today as next week we have to make our journey southward - heading for home.
I would have to write for hours to tell you what we have learned so far on this hikoi, of how just 5 minutes of giggling from Pirika and Martha alone has made it all worthwhile - and I can assure you they have laughed alot more than that! Oh how these dear babes deserve to laugh.
We have learnt a pile about nutritional and cellular health and have been constantly reminded of how our bodies are just machines that carry us through this lifetime.
Last night we discovered whilst online that common side effects for the bloodpressure medication that Jacky is on "metoprolol" are sleeplessness and pain! Jacky has not been sleeping well at all since coming out of the hospital, how beneficial it would have been to have been told that she could experience this, and pain?! Jacky certainly needs no more negative energy added to create pain. Western medicine (SIGH) it has it's place, undoubtedly, however it is so vicious in its ways. I will always remember after my brother in law died from cancer, after months of chemotherapy treatment, my sister Jan saying to me "you know, I think sometimes we treat with machine guns when we should be using butterflys".
We believe we are working with butterflys and although not as fast in actioning the effect as the couterpart machine guns, butterflys work in collaboration with your body and its vast systems, and slowly but surely, wellness is able to return.
Last night I found a natural pain killer/anti inflamatory "serrapeptase". It has been used widely in Asia and Europe for 30 years and has no known side effects! Relief from pain commonly occurs as quick as within 10 days. It is made from an enzyme from the gut of a silk worm, I know, I know - I can hear Gez saying "how the hell did someone discover that?!" I'm not sure, but they did, and this is the next butterfly that has flown our way and landed in the hikoi van. Finger toes and everything else crossed that some relief will be found in this medicine. It should arrive in Thames tomorrow.
Off to see Wolf now, back to Thames tomorrow - warmly, Us all
xo...
Less idyllic than the above is the damn sciatic type leg hip pain that Jacky STILL has. She can hardly walk with it. Appears to have floored Wolf even how long this is taking to heal - although he keeps telling us that the nerve damage was quite severe so therefore it will take a while to repair. Still very disheartening after being here for 2 weeks. My poor love is handling it so well - mostly. Although any of you who have suffered with constant pain of any kind know well that it GETS YOU DOWN :(
Jacky is going to have accupuncture this weekend from a friend of lovely Kates and will hopefully get some relief from this curse. We see Wolf again this morning and he can literally make pain disappear by laying his hands on you. This may be our last visit with Wolf today as next week we have to make our journey southward - heading for home.
I would have to write for hours to tell you what we have learned so far on this hikoi, of how just 5 minutes of giggling from Pirika and Martha alone has made it all worthwhile - and I can assure you they have laughed alot more than that! Oh how these dear babes deserve to laugh.
We have learnt a pile about nutritional and cellular health and have been constantly reminded of how our bodies are just machines that carry us through this lifetime.
Last night we discovered whilst online that common side effects for the bloodpressure medication that Jacky is on "metoprolol" are sleeplessness and pain! Jacky has not been sleeping well at all since coming out of the hospital, how beneficial it would have been to have been told that she could experience this, and pain?! Jacky certainly needs no more negative energy added to create pain. Western medicine (SIGH) it has it's place, undoubtedly, however it is so vicious in its ways. I will always remember after my brother in law died from cancer, after months of chemotherapy treatment, my sister Jan saying to me "you know, I think sometimes we treat with machine guns when we should be using butterflys".
We believe we are working with butterflys and although not as fast in actioning the effect as the couterpart machine guns, butterflys work in collaboration with your body and its vast systems, and slowly but surely, wellness is able to return.
Last night I found a natural pain killer/anti inflamatory "serrapeptase". It has been used widely in Asia and Europe for 30 years and has no known side effects! Relief from pain commonly occurs as quick as within 10 days. It is made from an enzyme from the gut of a silk worm, I know, I know - I can hear Gez saying "how the hell did someone discover that?!" I'm not sure, but they did, and this is the next butterfly that has flown our way and landed in the hikoi van. Finger toes and everything else crossed that some relief will be found in this medicine. It should arrive in Thames tomorrow.
Off to see Wolf now, back to Thames tomorrow - warmly, Us all
xo...
Hello beautiful people, missing you all truckloads and especially in the past weekend.So pleased to see your new post, I thought you had disappeared in waihi.
ReplyDeleteWish so much for you both to have ease from the pain, i have my fingers crossed real hard for you Jack that this new pain relief works for you.
Piks Chester has said many times since you have been away how much he misses you.
All my love
emmaxxxxxxxx