I get annoyed when someone tells me to, “use my brains”. Firstly I only have one!! Secondly, I am using it ALL the time. Once I used my brain to have a fantastic relationship with Sean Connery. How clever was that! When it comes to how we use our brains each of us thinks and functions uniquely. For instance, the subject of this story, Josh Wood (as per The walking quadriplegic – Part 1), used his brain to re-route the electrical wiring to his body when he rendered himself a quadriplegic, i.e. totally paralyzed from the neck down, in a snowboarding accident.
Ah, the brain; we should make time to pay homage to and love our brain every day because it is a truly enigmatic and magnificent organ. It is our powerhouse, the conductor of all our functions, the conduit between this life and the one we don’t see, and the genesis of our thoughts, feelings, inspiration, and creativity. We rely on it totally and without it we would surely die.
Big brother brain is watching out for you
Practically every bit of us is connected to our encephalon (brain – see I am clever) and spinal cord via the nerves, which send messages from HQ down the bundle of cables.
The spinal cord is thick at the brain exit and thins out as the cables branch off to different areas. The further they venture, the smaller the branches. Eventually, they pare down to microscopic twigs (nerve endings) as they connect to every last muscle, ligament, bone, etc.
So if your body lost contact with the rest of you, you’d be a disembodied head; sounds like something out of a 50s horror movie.
BLOOHA HA HAAAAA (evil laughter) Sorry, I always do that when I think of a horror movie. I learned it from Dad. I was trained in evil laughter from an early age. Have I ever told you about my dad? He is very clever; a great painter and he writes hilarious stories. One that comes to mind is about the 7-year-old boy who ran so fast he passed himself and came first and second in the under 3 feet race, for boys who had less than 3 feet.
This brings me back to Josh Wood, who certainly surpassed himself in the foot connecting with brain stakes.
Firstly, his mum, Kay, after learning the extent of his injury, decided he would walk again despite the vehement protestations of his attending physicians who told them he would be unlikely to leave his bed.
From the beginning she allowed her intuition to guide Josh to the best care. She insisted that the medical team on the mountain fly him to a Melbourne hospital. They were initially reluctant because they thought he would die.
Once the doctors did their excellent job of patching Josh’s neck up and reattaching it to his head, Kay said to Josh:
“I have never lied to you before and you can believe me now when I say, I know you are going to walk. “
At that time she had no idea about what to do because there were no rules. They had to create they’re own such as:
No researching Josh’s condition on the internet so they were not limited by conventional thinking
Josh was not to bond with people in the spinal unit who were negative about their condition. He would only relate to positive people
Sneaking in a team of therapists to work on Josh daily. This included a spiritual healer, massage therapist, and chiropractor
Josh took a bit of convincing.
“Mum and I discussed what we would do from a natural therapy perspective; one is spiritual healing. Her friend is a psychic, and at the time I was skeptical because she kept warning me that I would have accidents and that my relationships would not work out.
“However I changed my mind after an awful incident in the hospital. I was being taken into the shower room in a waterproof bed. I had recently had the gavage (feeding and breathing tube) removed and my throat was sore. I could hardly talk.
“After the shower, the nurse returned me to my room but was called away before she got me back into bed. I was lying there naked in a puddle of water. I tried to call but my throat was so bad no one heard me. When she found me an hour later I had gone into shock.
“They wrapped me like a mummy in heated towels and space blankets but it did not help. Mum and her psychic friend had gone home and suddenly she insisted that Mum had to return to the hospital. They found me freezing cold and shaking.
“She put her energy into me and warmed my body up and within 15 minutes I was back to normal. From that moment on I knew the alternative side of things was going to help me.
Smugglers ward
From the time of arrival at the hospital, prior to the operation that restructured Josh’s neck, an unlikely crack team of therapists was smuggled in daily. They assumed the identities of team coach, (aka chiropractor Simon Floreani), Simon’s assistant (aka friend of Josh), “sister in law” (aka Zara – spiritual guide and masseuse), and Kay’s “sister” (aka spiritual healer).
