We had an indoor climbing gym in the neighborhood that I loved to bring my kids to. They were super young and fun, which is the reason I started going to that gym. I was just checking it out, but saw a guy who looked like he was dancing on the walls while he was climbing. He was so graceful. I wanted to do that too! Somehow, it was drawing me to do it. I found when I started climbing, I as very good at it! Probably because of my build and size (I’m petite). One day I was climbing and was around maybe 20 + feet up, and there was a dug hole.
There’s no way that someone could lose a jug when they have been climbing for a while. It almost felt like someone was taking my fingers off one at a time. And I came down. If someone had not been climbing next to me with a mattress below them, I would have landed just fine. But when I came down, the tip of my climbing shoe just touched the side of the next person’s mattress. My foot went completely out beneath me. I had fractured that ankle.
I went to an orthopedic doctor who was breathing down my neck to get surgery. He told me “you’ll never walk again if you don’t have my surgery”.
But my little inner voice was there in a wisdom.
It told me there was something else I could do. My background is as a nurse, so I had lots of medical friends. I would have conversations with them and ask them their opinion Physical Therapy, or Orthopedic Therapy? They said, yeah, once you put those screws and plates in, you’ll have pain the rest of your life.
So I followed the instructions of the voice, my Intuitive wisdom.
I went to my friend who was a chiropractor. He would come and adjust my foot twice a day. The orthopedic had told me to use cold. He said don’t use cold. I want you to use heat, so we did that. With injuries like this, there is also swelling. So I also followed his instructions and went to traditional Chinese medicine for the swelling.
I took herbs they recommended, and he wanted me to soak in hot water twice a day and then he would come and adjust my foot to realign it. He said “I want you walking on it because I don’t want you developing scar tissue.”
Yes…I listened to my Inner Wisdom and within three months I was back climbing, and doing salsa dancing! I was doing all that without ay intervention of conventional medicine,
That was when the lightbulb started coming on for me. It hit me time and time again, that there are other options out there that we need to look into and validate in terms of putting empirical data and looking at the before and after, to show that these modalities work.