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life is a long story of unhappy love, reconciliation, deception
and finally separation. It is surprising the marriage lasted that
long and how she put up with the beatings. She would not separate
from him.
She came to
see me because of mild metrorrhagia. I
referred her to the gynecologist who diagnosed a uterine cancer:
an average differentiated epidermoid carcinoma
involving the whole of the cervix, part of the uterus and vagina
with metastasis to two ganglions. The surgeon performs a colpo-hysterectomy
according to the ‘technique de Wertheim’.
“Three surgeons worked for 5 hours to rip out my colon.”
This appeared
to be very invasive surgery for a person who was barely ill. She
only suffered from mild blood loss between her periods.
Chemotherapy
and radiotherapy are not proposed due to a risk of haemoperitoneum and the presence of recto-vaginal and utero-vaginal fistulas. A surgical correction is performed
of the recto-vaginal fistula and a re-implantation of the left ureter is performed.
Two years later
(January 2001) a tumour is found near
the lumbar part of the aorta.
She refuses
treatment after having suffered all the previous interventions (three
in total). The professor insists she will be dead in 6 months.
She tells the
professor: “Dear Sir, maybe you do not realise
this, but we are all mortals and we should accept this. Being a
professor you may not know this.” (She is not an intellectual; she
is a cleaner in the local cemetery.)
She tells me:
“The first
time, I had to accept the surgery. I believed them when they told
me there was great urgency. They were going to save me. The only
thing they did was to make me suffer and I will not allow them to
do this again.”
Another surgeon
advises that surgery is not a good option and a colleague proposes
chemotherapy and radiation. But previously she was told that this
would most likely cause severe bleeding with death as a result.
She decides to come and see me.
19/04/01
On top of all
the health worries she has, she has major problems with her boss
who she thought of as a friend. Her daughter-in-law does not allow
her to see her grandson.
There is little
that is peculiar in her story apart from: “However tired I am, I
will always finish the job I decided to do. Once I have decided
I would do something I will finish what I decided.”
This may explain
why she tolerated being beaten by her husband throughout all these
years. Otherwise the wedding would not have been ‘completed’.
I put three
themes together:
Things unfinished
Conflict
with a friend
Fast progressing invasive nature of the tumour, difficulty of separation of the tissues during surgery.
A dose of Sabina 7C then 9C then 12C then 15C and 30C over 45 days.
After
every dose she feels pains in the neck, ganglions and intestines
but she feels much better thereafter.
I allow her
to use the 30c every time she thinks she needs it.
06/07/01
She does well
both in her mind and body.
“My daughter-in-law,
I will not change her, I take her the way she is. I feel I need
the remedy, it regulates my bowel movements when I take it every
day.”
09/10/01
She has sensations
of electricity in an infected tooth, in the neck, in her breasts,
in the sides and in her abdomen.
There are
many ‘shooting pains’ in the pathogenesis for Sabina.
I continue
Sabina 30
(I make a note
that Zincum also has a theme of going
to the end of things and has many shooting pains.)
14/01/02
I start to
doubt the efficacy of Sabina because she needs a daily dose and
therefore give her the remedy Zincum.
She is in litigation
with her boss because he did not pay her for all the hours she worked.
He is clever and wins the case. She is not cross with him. He is
an old friend and she hangs on to the good memories she has: “I
can keep friendship for years whatever happens but if the others
are like a wall, it hurts me.”
18/11/02
I give her
Staphysagria because of the insults made by her daughter-in-law.
I soon go back
to Sabina because of her sensitivity to quarrels and tasks that
need finishing.
14/01/03
She comes because
she suffers with sinusitis.
She receives
another dose of Sabina. (Staphysagria suffers with indignation, the patient here is more affected by a deceived
friendship).
For now, she
is doing well, regardless of the demanding existential conditions
she endures.
I am still
not certain that Sabina is the right remedy, but it is obvious that
the remedy has helped her very much. The themes of the dispute with
a friend and things not finished which were the basis of my chancy
prescription have been confirmed.
Since the remedy
she is doing well: she uses Sabina again with success for a number
of little incidents (sinusitis, cold, abdominal pain, pain in the
breast) in January '03, February '03, April '03, twice in July '03,
November '03 and February '04.
21/04/04
Still doing
very well; she has put on weight, she looks well, she puts up with
her daughter-in-law, she goes hiking (40km).
She took Sabina
100600 in June '04 because of 2 emotional shocks: suicide of a cousin,
a brother-in-law with serious health problems.
October '04, Sabina 200 for a cold.
Then Sabina
100601 for more emotional upsets.
April '05,
she does not sleep well: Sabina MM.
October '05, Sabina MM for a return of the sensation of prickling in the breast.
October '06:
Sabina 9 for a cold lasting 3 days and a little pain in the breasts.
November '06:
Cough that ‘rips out the lungs’ Sabina 50300. (Theme of ripping,
Sabina)
February '07:
Cold: Sabina 30.
April '08:
She is still very well. It is now seven years since the professor
announced her imminent death. We are all mortal but for her it will
be later rather than sooner.
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