Hi All,
I'm a bit shaken up by some information I received.
About a year and a half ago I was giving reiki treatments to a man who had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He couldn't feel the energy and he was just going along with the treatments because of his wife's insistence. Because of his reluctance, treatments were fairly infrequent. He was also on medication. It was difficult to gauge what the reiki was doing for him, other than perhaps mitigating side effects and keeping him cheerful and positive.
After about 6 months he went for a follow-up visit to his doctor and he came back with the bad news that the cancer had gotten worse and spread. After that he summarily said that the reiki was doing nothing for him and he wanted no more treatments.
Now comes the weird part. I had a very strong sense at the time that he did not have cancer. In fact I was positive that he would come back from the doctor with good news. When the bad news came, it was quite upsetting (although I'm sure it was a lot more upsetting for him), but I had a persistent feeling that the doctor was wrong. And I didn't say anything, because I thought it was wishful thinking on my part, and also that it would be irresponsible to speak up.
Recently he changed doctors. His new doctor ran some more tests and looked at the old test results, and he said that a mistake may have been made; that what was interpreted as the cancer having spread was something else; in fact the numbers indicate that there is no cancer. He was taken off the medication he has been taking, and of course he feels great, having been given a new lease on life.
In the meantime he had a year of fear and anxiety, when he believed that he was living on borrowed time.
I now feel bad. Should I have spoken up? I really didn't trust my feelings at the time, and if the same thing were to happen again, I'm not sure I wouldn't do the same thing.
Would anyone out there do anything differently?
Cheers,
J.
