Healer Evolving

By Irvine Irvine

"The energy of Suey's journey healed her. By sharing it, she allows readers to use the same energy to heal themselves."
Rev. Rosalyn L. Bruyere, author of Wheels of Light

Healer Evolving is a story of love, courage, and breakthroughs. A woman's search for alternative therapies for her son becomes a spiritual journey.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Nov 30, 2011
• ISBN: 9781452539713

Irvine Irvine

Suey Irvine is a Minister of Healing, a Feng Shui consultant, an electrical engineering graduate,and a mother. The healing work she did with her son was front page, national, and international news. She lives on the central coast of California where she practices her healing arts.

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Contents

Foreword

Preface

The Arrival of Chad

Cerebral Palsy

We Visit the Pediatrician

Doctors

To Educate

Our Growing Family

My Spiritual Upbringing

I Know He Knows

Reactions

The Intruder

Gavin - Recycle

Chad Chat

They, Too, Have Come to Visit the Ducks

The High Climb

A Brain Theory

Hope for Chad

The Chestnut Hill Hotel

The Creep Sprint

Stimulating the Vestibular System

Geno’s 37th Birthday

In Preparation

Geno

About Hospitals

Instead of Sleep

About Chad and Me

Dr. Rea

Environmental Control Unit:

Brookhaven Medical Center

In Complete Faith

The School System

The Irrational Level of the Temple

The Dream Inn

Martha

Home Free All

Treasures

Two Views

Eye Surgeries

Muscle Surgeries

The Woman at the Beach

Of My Body

Facelift

Glimpses

A Gathering For Bruce

My Godsend Larry

About Larry and Lee

About Me

At Lisa’s Wedding Reception

He Bleeds

In the Mountain View Municipal Parking Lot

Before Bruce’s Drowning

A Shift in the Wind for Chad

A Gift in Every Wound

The Family That Is Not a Family

Goes to the Beach

Emergency Energy Exchange

The Third Eye: Window to the Soul

About Celibacy

It Is Not Uncommon for the Abused to Become the Abuser

You Don’t Know the Half of It

The Chiropractic Dialogues

My Spiritual Teacher

To Bed or Not to Bed

The Power of Ritual

House as Body: A Feng Shui Concept

Issues in the Tissues

What You Give Energy To Grows

About Me and Green Tara

On Manifestation

The Biggest Aura Wins

Orphans of the Universe

Healer Evolving

It Is a Higher Loving to Correct Rather Than Tolerate

The Room

My Happy Ending

Note

Acknowledgements

This book is dedicated to all of my teachers and to all who have wanted to give comfort.

Foreword

In this book you’ll meet my mother whose journey as a healer began before I took a single step. As you read about her life you will discover the roots of what healed me and what allowed her to create a community around herself and my father that supported our family. This is a love story, a story of courage, a story of breakthroughs that allowed my mother to go beyond what most people consider conventional and discover her passion for healing. Laugh and cry with her, and have a good read.

Chad W. Irvine

What if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

Muriel Rukeyser

Preface

The Rev. Rosalyn L. Bruyere has had a profound effect on my life. My potential to experience joy and peace has expanded. By being in her presence for lengths of time I have had the courage to experiment and develop my own method of healing. To say thank you is indeed an understatement.

The Arrival of Chad

I have an appointment with the gynecologist

Afterwards I leave a note for Bruce

It says

You are neither impotent nor sterile

Our baby is due December 15th

* * *

I say

Let’s take a Lamaze class

It prepares parents for childbirth

We will learn about the different phases of labor

and about breathing techniques for each phase

The husband is trained to be the wife’s coach

through labor and delivery

Bruce says

I don’t want to go into the delivery room

I say

I don’t want to go into the delivery room either

We take the course

* * *

Six weeks before our due date

my water breaks

On the way to the hospital

Bruce says

We may never catch up

* * *

The obstetrician says

Your vaginal muscles

could crush the baby

I recommend a caudal

and a high forceps delivery

The anesthesiologist says

Premature births

seem to be harder on the mothers

The obstetrician says

The baby’s heartbeat is halved

every time you have a contraction

We will watch for fetal trauma

I am wheeled into the delivery room

Bruce holds my hand

The mirror for us to watch the birth

is pushed aside

We look at each other

At the obstetrician’s request

the anesthesiologist pushes

on the top of my abdomen

The nurse from the East Nursery

whisks away a small bundle

It’s a boy

* * *

Hours after the birth

the pediatrician says

Your baby has hyaline membrane disease

a sac covers the underdeveloped lung

It can be fatal

The prognosis is not good

I ask

How soon will we know

if he is going to get better?

He says

With this disease

the infants always get worse

before they get better

The next day he says

Hyaline membrane disease

is no longer a threat to your baby’s life

Some of the interns in the East Nursery

feel Chad never had it

Others feel

an incredible recovery has occurred

That night the pediatrician says

Your baby has a beta strep infection

that may have gone into his spinal fluid—

spinal meningitis

The prognosis is not good

Days later the friendly intern says

This is a situation where everything had to go right

and it did

You delivered at one of the top two preemie facilities

in the United States

Your obstetrician took cultures after the delivery

and sent the results to the nursery

Penicillin was administered immediately

The unfamiliar intern says

You gave the beta strep infection to your son

You might think you have a normal child

then at the age of three

discover he’s retarded

Cerebral Palsy

Chad is two years old

For the first time we go to a physiatrist

a doctor of physical medicine

He says

Your son has cerebral palsy

I call Bruce at work

I do not intend to tell him

I say

Bring home a bottle of scotch

He asks

How was the doctor’s appointment today?

I say

Chad has cerebral palsy

Later Bruce tells me

When you called

I must have turned ashen

An employee was in my office

After you hung up

he said

"I don’t care what it is

I’ll do anything I can to help"

We Visit the Pediatrician

I ask Chad’s pediatrician

Are there different treatments for cerebral palsy

I should be reading about?

He says

Don’t read

You should feel lucky

to have such a fine physiatrist

in the area to care for him

Doctors

In the first grade

I swallow a bobby pin

My mother says

We will go to the doctor

Everything will be all right

* * *

I am a young single woman

recovering from an automobile accident

I lie on the doctor’s table

study the black and white anatomy chart on the wall

It is after hours—

less charge for the heat treatments

My concentration increases

as the doctor’s hands travel higher

on the inside of my thighs

I look at him

His eyes roll to the ceiling

I