Radiant health and peace in São Paulo, Brazil

Ernest Holmes, the founder of Religious Science, wrote in his seminal book, The Science of Mind, “If we wish to come to the Spirit for the healing of our wounds, let us come in peace and with spontaneous joy, for the Spirit is joy.”

It is with great peace and joy that I write this post for the “wound” that I have lived with for 23 years is about to be healed. I am on my way to São Paulo, Brazil to have metabolic surgery. And for this reason, for the first time since June 13, 2007, my first post about peace for Ode’s blog, I will be taking a month off.

Here’s the story:

I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes 23 years ago. From day one of the diagnosis, I said that I knew there was a cure. As of this writing, the only pharmaceutical options offered by Western medicine maintain the disease. I have taken every path I could find for a possible cure, and nothing has worked.

Then three years ago I saw a segment on 60 Minutes telling the stories of morbidly obese patients who also had Type 2 Diabetes having bariatric surgery and usually within a week’s time, before losing the weight that allegedly caused the diabetes, losing all symptoms of the disease. After the show, I tore to the computer to find the man who was doing this surgery.

Enter Francesco Rubino, M.D., an Italian surgeon and scientist, who not only pioneered this research, but also worked in Brazil with people who were not morbidly obese. I belong to that population. I met with Dr. Rubino and it looked like I was a perfect candidate for the surgery.

[Full disclosure: this procedure only works for about ten percent of those who have Type 2 Diabetes, those who have the classic, autoimmune, insulin resistance version.]

I began to hunt for a doctor who would do the surgery for me in the United States. Many states, even another country, and several doctors later, the truth became clear. I was too thin. I laughed till I cried the first time one of them said it to me aloud. I’m not morbidly obese but I’m no Skinny Minnie either. [Code: I’ve never been too thin for anything in my entire life.]

Dr. Rubino suggested I contact a colleague of his in Brazil which does not have the same medical restrictions as those in the U.S. After long correspondence and a meeting in New York City, as well as a battery of metabolic and other tests, we agreed. I am a perfect candidate for metabolic surgery and the likelihood is 98.99% that when I awaken on the evening of June 22 I will no longer have Type 2 Diabetes.

So I’m on my way, and whilst I’ll miss my Ode friends, healing is the number one job for me at the moment. I will be back with Ode on July 18.

Oh, and if you’re a praying sort, say a prayer please, for me, and for all those with this dreadful dis-ease, that we might all find healing as soon as divinely possible.

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Photo by Andre Deak via Flickr.