The Following Weeks

The prognosis for Nico’s recovery was totally heart breaking, the Doctors showed me the scan of his brain where the area of brain damage was. They basically told me the worst case scenario and left me with no hope really. That he would be severely disabled and that they couldn’t tell me if, when and how much he would regain. The cardiologist found that his heart valve was calcified probably cause by rheumatic fever as a child along with atrial fibrilation which is when the heart beats irregularly, the 2 together they say caused the clot to form in his heart and which ultimately caused the stroke.

It had left his right side paralysed completely and no speech at all. He was now living in half his body and unable to communicate. I decided that there was no way he was going to hear the prognosis and what he needed was the healing power of love and positivity. I also new that he needed therapies for the trauma and shock, a clean diet and water and something that was going to fire his path of recovery.

This is when I decided to invest in NIKKEN products. Having been to an in-house demo just 2 weeks before Nico’s stroke I was pondering over what products to order. Now I just wanted as many of the products on him and for the family to support us too.

The Nikken products arrived about 3 weeks after his stroke. These are the products that I first used  on Nico in the hospital:

The Nikken sports socks, these helped hugely with the circulation which was compromised on his right leg, it was always cold. I put in the socks the mStrides Magnetic insoles.

He lay, slept and sat on the Kenkoseat all the time. He was very lucky that his core muscles were so strong that we was able to sit within a couple of days of his stroke.

I brought in water from the Pimag waterfall and he had the sports bottle which I could fill up at the hospital too.

I massaged his right side every day with the Kenko Magduo and spun it above his head.

He wore the Power Band necklace and bracelet all the time.

He had the Complete Balance supplement sachets which I put the Jade Greenzmes into also.

This is what happened and what I immediately noticed.......

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Sitting and Standing - Miracles Start to happen a month after Nico's Stroke

What I noticed very quickly when Nico started to drink the Pimag water and to sit on the Kenko Seat I brought into hospital, was he was more alert.  He had the mstrides insoles in his socks, his right side was warmer for a start, as the circulation was compromised on his right side, aches and pains became less. Also as he wasn't able to walk, he could sit on the bed without falling to the side and in the chair by his bed, his core muscles were strong and his balance was good, he was lucky.

The KenkoSeat I moved from the chair to the bed so that he was always on it. Being so lightweight and comfortable it was easy to do.

He started to have more energy and sleep less. He was energised and started to try to stand. Then he was standing one day and all the nurses were telling him to sit, his consultant was amazed on her rounds one morning to see him standing, but he didn't want to sit - he wanted to start to learn to walk again. And sure enough within a couple of weeks of having the Nikken products on him he started to learn to walk - a few steps to start with. Hard and very exhausting work in physio, but all the time the Nikken products were energising and supporting his healing, so when he was resting or sleeping his body had the perfect environment to heal and the therapies he started to have in hospital, acupuncture, Bodytalk and Cranial, those therapies were energetically anchored in by the Nikken products which increased the healing potential.

He had his Powerband necklace and bracelet on his right wrist, he wore them all the time.

He stopped bruising as badly from the heparin that was injected into his stomach and warfarin into his arm. Plus the constant blood tests.

His appetite was so good, I have to say I cooked and brought in all his meals, Nico's diet at this point was fundamental for his healing I had to make sure it was balanced, no processed foods, a good clean diet and I supplemented between meals with the Nikken Complete Balance and Greenzymes which he loved. What was amazing was that by the end of 5 weeks in hospital after his stroke he had gained weight not lost any at all! And had started to take his first steps.

At this stage we were given no hope for his recovery, that is the norm with brain injury no certainty, no reassurance. I had no idea if he would actually be able to walk again, the speech part of his brain so terribly damaged and I was told that his right arm may never be usable, the bottom line was he would be disabled but to what extent no one knew. I decided that I would never tell Nico any of this 'prognosis' and I knew in my heart that this was not his future and he was going to have to to really fight and how could he do that if he thought it would be in vain.

Nico is an incredible fighter, there was no way he was going to stay sitting, it was to his down fall as he fell, and at that point he had to realise he had to have help and needed to build his strength, it did shake him up, luckily he didn't break anything but it only fired his path to keep trying. Also knowing that he had 2 young children who desperately were willing him to get well too.

When he was transferred to the Neuro rehab unit at the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath, his healing and strength went up a whole new level.

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