Knee Post-Op

At just past eight weeks from my knee replacement, I'm doing fine: achieving almost to 120 degree knee flex, going up and down stairs without assistance, losing weight, exercising. There's still some achy pain if I don't rest twenty out of every fifty minutes or so. But, I did manage at six weeks to pack and move from one side of town to the other--cheaper and nicer digs. In fact, I joked with my outpatient PT that he ought to advise all of his patients to move since when he measured my flex it had gone from 105 degrees before the move to 119 degrees at the end of the move.

My recovery has been aided by metaphysical tools I acquired from Alton Kamadon's Mechezedeck Method training. The night before and the morning of surgery, I activated the Kamadon Healing Temple. Thereafter, I activated it each night. Verification that the temple aided me in my recovery has come from comments by CNA's in rehab, PTs, and from a shamanic rock reading. While in rehab, I continually heard encouraging words. CNAs noted that my wound was dry whereas others' might be weaping. My outpatient PT said, "That's the best knee I've seen all year." That's no small thing since my other damaged knee prevents me from attempting some of the exercises. And, when I attended a class in shamanic rock reading, my counselor said of my rock, "I see a temple. It's good."

Just yesterday my alarm clock, which was not set to awaken me, went off at 7:13 a.m. I have a habit of checking numbers that come to my attention. In Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.'s little book of Angel Numbers I read that the Angels and Ascended Masters were helping me in my "healing and manifestation." The piece also advised me to "stay in touch." Nightly, I ask for healing of my knee when I set up the Temple, and I have noted that even though I don't religiously do the PT exercises, my knee's performance has shown improvement at the bi-weekly PT sessions. One night a guru whose workshops I've attended appeared in a white-on-white scene just as I closed my eyes and after I made my nightly appeal for assistance through the healing temple.

Although I am crediting the Kamadon Temple with it's help, the caveat is, as Namadeva (Thomas Ashley-Farrand) repeatedly reminds us in mantra work, that we need to be open to guidance. All metaphysical tools affect the third dimension. Prayers and mantras said by friends, my own use of mantra, and other practices have helped shape when and how this surgery has occurred along with the results. It became clear to me in rehab that I moved to Eugene, in part, to have this surgery performed by Dr. Brian Jewett, an outstanding surgeon from the Eugene's Slocum Center for Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. Similarly, several people whose knees Dr. Jewett had replaced recommended the Lutheran's Good Samaritan rehab care--even the food was good. I was led and arrived because I asked and trusted.

Driven to River Road Hospital before 5 a.m. by Sheila, my good friend and supporter during this ordeal, I felt trepidation but also confidence that the surgery would go well. In part that was because from a woman I spoke with at an art event in the fall to knocking on a stranger's door at 11 p.m. one March night because I had locked myself out while taking out the garbage and needed a locksmith, I heard nothing but cudos for Dr. Jewett. When I asked at my pre-op appointment if I had anything to worry about, he said, "Lots. But, let me do the worrying." When the surgery was over, he told Sheila that it had gone very well. When I heard that I knew that neither he nor his team nor I were alone in the operating room. Having called upon them regularly, I trust that both surgery and recovery have been aided by the Ascended Masters and Angels. After all, the guru who appeared recently is a direct descendant of the Buddha and a king who has renounced his Indian throne in this life, no doubt an Ascended Master.

I trust the Kamadon Temple and those associated with it will see me through the second knee surgery as well. I give thanks to both corporeal and incorporeal beings for their loving kindness.