StoryTelling
Vero Nihil Verius
“The shortest, the swiftest,
and the surest way to plum Truth
is through a mortal leap into the
Unknown.”
Henri Bergson
“What is truer than Truth?”
asks writer Isabel Allende
at the very beginning of her TED Talk
“Answer: The Story.”
Jewish proverb
STORIES OF GRATITUDE
By Patients | For Patients
Stories Change Lives
Share and Serve
In Memory of
Harriette Vicars Cooper Coker
Shock Waves
“I can’t!”
was her mantra.
An uplifting and shocking end-of-life story
with extraordinary improvement
after four years of steady decline and deterioration.
HOW?
Thanks to the hands of a cranial osteopath and 8 months…
April 30 – December 13, 1982
In Appreciation to My Grandson
for my awareness and my motivation
A story has a different motive than a patient testimonial. Storytelling is designed to create interest and explain value. Storytelling is crafted from a patient testimonial.
The resulting Stories are personal testimonials encompassing forty plus years and bearing witness to the astonishing potential of the body to recover from trauma and find health in the skilled hands of a cranial Osteopath.
StoryTelling
Experential Knowledge
Evidence-Based Results
HANDS OF
HARMONY
Carolyn Inabinet
THE BEFORE
Follow me into the Unknown and the Invisible
…The Before
The Sounds of Silence
Simon & Garfunkle,
arr. Soren Bebe
Silent dissonance
reverberated and rippled throughout my body
in uncommon and unconscious reactions to anesthesia.
THE AFTER
WANDERING | 1975 – 1986
A Perfect Patient Storm
in the world of the Cranial Osteopath,
a personification of
The Orofacial-Pelvic Connection.
– A spinal fusion in the lower back
– A dental splint on the upper teeth
While walking in the world of Unknown Diagnosis without a map or a compass,
I discovered a territory named
IATROGENESIS*
* harm brought forth by unintended adverse patient outcome
because of a health care intervention.
It was 1977. I was 30 years old.
The diagnosis of degenerative disc disease and a prognosis of my entire spine being fused by the time I reached 50 was inconceivable.
Thus, my Seeking began. Unknowingly, I became a PROGNOSIS PROTESTOR! My prognosis was eventually annihilated by stumbling into the ‘Unknown’ with a cranial Osteopath.
The Prognosis Protest
Two unsuccessful back surgeries
….after the Silence
During 1978, I quickly became a “Basket Case”
within the dental community.
Craniofacial pain was triggered in a routine dental appointment: the dentist ground a tooth (equilibration).
This procedure unintentionally and instantaneously triggered a ‘lightening bolt’ of sharp pain
flashing through my face.
Little did I know this was the initiation
of years of orofacial pain.
The benefits of cranial osteopathic oral treatment are astonishing, as I later discovered.
“What did you just do with my back?’
I asked my PT, sitting on her treatment table.
She told me she was learning interesting palpatory techniques with an osteopath.
And thus she came to explain the cranial Osteopathic perspective of motion
across the midline of the palate
…and the potential repercussions
of restriction of this motion.
This moment in 1981 changed my direction
….and my life.
And thus began my first steps down the
“Road Less Traveled”.
Intuitively, I knew I had heard my Truth.
Serendipity and Providence
Wandering onto
‘The Road Less Traveled’ …into The Beyond
‘Cold Turkey’ Potency
Medication Withdrawal
….and the surprising outcome
An amazing experience with Potency –
of medication and of the body’s inherent capacity
for self-regulation.
“You certainly just can’t stop taking this drug…
you have to taper off slowly,”
roared the psychiatrist.
‘Just watch me!” I shrieked.
Withdrawal symptoms were extreme.
Osteopathic hands-on cranial treatment
enabled toleration of this ‘cold turkey’
cessation of Nardil,
a psychoactive drug that had
precipitated a seizure.
Perceptions and Wonderings
…in the NOW
In retrospect, playing three weddings three weeks after a laminectomy was not only foolish but most irresponsible of me. Apparently, the orthopedic surgeon hadno idea of the stress on the torso and legs when playing a full pedal board on an organ.
I wonder what would have happened if I had declined to play these three weddings so soon after the back surgery?
I wonder if the “abnormality” discovered at L5-S1 after the birth of my first child was a ‘congenital’ issue or an ‘injury’ from the “saddle block” spinal anesthetic that left me paralyzed for four days?
In the world of the cranial Osteopath, my breech birth could be the missing piece of information.
I also wonder how my own medical history would have been altered if I had been treated by a cranial osteopath at birth?
The Organ and the Osteopath
Postural Demands of the Classical Organ
Breech Birth and the SBS
[ Spheno-Basilar Synchrondosis]
Reflections …in the NOW
I failed to recognize that these medical events
were my initiation into exploring different ideas…
my first steps in seeking the Beyond
and venturing into the Unknown…
Furthermore, I was unaware of
…that part of me who would not hear,
…that part of me who could not listen
to the devastating Diagnosis and Prognosis
AND,
I was given a Knowing that enabled me
to continue inward and onward.
The Seeker in the Silence
The Embodiment of the Sacred
THE AFTER
ROAMING | 1986 – 1998
Startling discoveries and happenings were yet to unfold enroute to unforeseen dental adventures….before and after the release of
The Cranial Connection (1986).
I roamed around the county with local encounters – in the Mediation Court and The City of Phoenix – as well as around the country with USA dental adventures in Ohio, Missouri, Nevada, Michigan, Indiana, and California – where an unexpected detour emerged.
“The Road Not Less Traveled”
The California Ortho adventure began in the early 1990’s.
This journey was short and sweet into Orange County
– 45 minutes by air from Phoenix.
The freeways were a maze. Driving from Orange County to a Santa Monica referral was a-mazing.
UNIVERSAL ENERGY
Korean Ki
Chinese Chi
Indian Prana
Japanese Qi
My traveling West to California
actually ended up taking me further East,
A detour to Korea via Southern California
thus entered my life.
On June 4, 1996 at 10:30 am,
an orthodontic procedure triggered
the onset of a bizarre orofacial syndrome.
Little did I know that this was
the beginning of more than
twenty-five years of puzzling symptoms
….complexity beyond the scope of specialization
in dentistry, neurology, orthopedics and otolaryngology.
Lucky for me that the cranial Osteopath
did not have to depend on a scan or a lab test
to confirm or treat this unknown consequence
that had no diagnosis.
THE AFTER
WONDERING | 1998 – 2002
An oral injection before surgery had unexpected consequences and surprising revelations. It was the summer of 1998.
“Don’t you think this could damage your palate?”
asked the oral surgeon, waving a laryngoscope in front of my face while I was sitting in his dental chair.
Oral surgery was postponed. Memory of anesthetic trauma had been triggered. I was alone, ninety miles east of Chicago in a Super 8 motel … a long way from Phoenix.
The puzzle pieces began to fall into place … after twenty-five years.
And I discovered that osteopathic cranial treatment stabilizes the autonomic nervous system not only in
drug withdrawal but also in PTSD..
The Ptyergoid Hamulus is not a dinosaur, but rather a little bone in the back of the upper palate. Removal (resection) of the Ptyergoid Hamular Process was the oral surgeon’s recommendation.
The surgeon was hoping to alleviate the ‘sharp sensation’ that had plagued me for two years after an orthodontic procedure had caused this bone to shift and protrude down from the palate. This procedure, at long last, revealed the missing puzzle-piece of my ‘movable palate’.
Osteopathic cranial treatment improves the functionality of the body within the structure …critical when altered and traumatized.
Discover the amazing ‘How and What’ that emerged from hands-on treatment for a cat bite.
“What in the world can you do
for a cat bite with only your hands?
I have an infection –
a red streak running up my arm! “
I exclaimed.
Little did I know this event would prove to be invaluable 15 years later! Confidence building
in possibilities and potentials.
THE AFTER
WATCHING | 2002 – 2023
The hamular resection failed
to alleviate my symptoms.
East to Florida,
West to Washington and California,
and South to Brazil.
Here, There and Everywhere
And the seeking and searching
began again.
“I was scared of back surgery. I went to Brazil instead and avoided surgery.”
In the past few weeks, I had encountered several people who were going or who had traveled to Brazil for various and sundry ailments. However, I wasn’t prepared for a neuroradiologist to say this. The very next words out of his mouth were the confirmation I needed to consider buying a ticket.
“You’ve not been successful with any surgeries.
Please seriously consider Brazil.”
COMING SOON!
Osteopath and Radiologist
enter a six-week
Swollen Kidney Diagnostic Contest
AND THE WINNER IS…..
“You have a swollen kidney on the right,”
the Osteopath declared in a treatment one day.
“You should see a nephrologist.”
The nephrologist was adamant about my NOT getting on an airplane to visit my son in Spokane. Instead, he picked up the phone and called his urologist friend. A Monday appointment was scheduled on the spot.
“I don’t see your name on the schedule,”
declared the receptionist on Monday morning.
The urologist, rushing in the door and overhearing the conversation, pulled a piece of toilet paper from his pocket
and laughing, gave it to his receptionist,
“She’s my patient. The appointment was made late on Friday.”
This ‘toilet paper appointment’ became an ongoing joke. What better place for a urologist to jot down an appointment?
A Door has opened.
A Mind is about to open as well!
Coming Soon!
How to avoid hernia surgery? …Eat linguini ?
No, see an Osteopath!
My tongue and mouth were usually unable
to pronounce “inguinal” correctly.
It became a standard joke between
my Osteopath and myself to say
“Linguini.”
THE NOW
WAITING
Bluebird | Alelxis Ffrench
I unveiled – and continue to uncover –
what amazing changes can and do evolve
as my body continues to be awakened and speak
. under cranial osteopathic care…
the primary form of medical treatment
for a diagnosis of “Unknown”.
Disorder Unfolding into Reorder
Counter-Entropic
Self-Regulation
The Evolution of Equilibrium
Beyond Words ?
The Silence
is broken at this time of my life.
In the NOW,
there are many words.
