2026
February Findings
Intubation Injury Revisited
I was transported back to 1998 and the oral surgeon on Thursday, February 12, 2026 when my California osteopath palpated inside my mouth. Intra-oral palpation is not unusual in my case.
This treatment, however, was not the norm… for either of us.
Intra-oral treatment can be most uncomfortable.
When she pulled her gloved hand out of my mouth, her eyes were as big as saucers.
Looking directly into my eyes, she calmly said:
“I know exactly what happened to the sphenoid bone during that intubation injury.”
And she proceeded to demonstrate with her hands at diagonal angles the torque/sheer to the sphenoid
that occurred during this trauma.
“The motion in this area is more normal now.”
I was speechless.
The current confirmation of this trauma was almost as shocking as
my 1998 experience flying out of the oral surgeon’s chair after an anesthetic injection into this area of the throat.
This recent validation appeared an hour before leaving Santa Cruz and driving to San Jose
to catch an airplane to Phoenix that evening.
Driving across the winding Santa Cruz mountains to San Jose listening to music
provided ample opportunity to remember and ruminate…. and cry.
How and why had she been given the insight and intuition after months of treatment?
And then I went to another space.
Did my “breathing in the biofield” three weeks before have anything to do with her ability
to palpate and treat this injury to the sphenoid and pterygoid plate?
Coincidence or Serendipity or Synchronicity?
The answer will never be known.