THanks Joicy,
I plan on getting them also I have to have surgery in july on my stomach.
Lori
-----Original Message-----
From: Joicy <joicy@erols.com>
To: mol-cancer@lists.meds.com <mol-cancer@lists.meds.com>
Date: Sunday, June 20, 1999 2:46 PM
Subject: [MOL] Gwen-surgical tapes
>Hi, sorry I had to leave my message kind of in the middle! Waht I wanted
>to tell you is that, I found these tapes by accident and they were put
>together by the daughter of Richard Rogers (of Rogers and Hammerstein
>musicals fame). She is a social worker who felt great concern for how
>fearful people were as they went in for surgery. So she had some
>special, soothing music composed just for these tapes, and then she
>narrated encouraging, reassuring messages over the music. Very powerful
>stuff! (The reason she doesn't use music that is already "out there" is
>to prevent flashbacks of the surgery.)
>
>I got interested in these tapes after reading how powerful our mind is
>even when we are under anethesia --how doctors have told patients in
>surgery to lower their blood pressure, and the patients have! Our minds
>in that state are very subject to suggestion -- good and bad.
>
>The first time I asked if I could do this, my doc looked at me funny,
>but still agreed. I simply had my anesthesiologist change the tapes for
>me as needed (to post-op after intra-op, for example; otherwise, they do
>nothing, because the tape will just keep "looping" and replaying by
>itself.)
>
>I did something else that was very helpful: I told the anesthesiologist
>to tell me three things at the tail end of surgery: that I would have no
>side-effects from the anesthesiology; that I would have no pain from the
>surgery; and that I would heal quickly. The only time out of 7 surgeries
>that i had any problem was the one time I forgot to ask for this!
>Otherwise, the docs were so amazed by how well I did and how quickly I
>healed afterward, that they got copies of the tapes for use by other
>patients.
>
>I also had a chance to hear the good effects when riding in an elevator
>with a nurse who had just been in surgery with a woman who used the
>tapes. She went on and on about how much they helped, not knowing that i
>was the one who had provided the tapes for her patient!
>
>By the way, I get no commission on these, LOL! They just made such a
>difference for me that I want to pass the info on. The last time or 2 I
>had surgery, I almost didn't even bother using them, because my
>experience has been so positive that I'm not even afraid anymore going
>in; I really believe it's because of the tapes.
>
>The info again is...
>
>P.I.P. surgical audiotape series, inc.
>70 Maple Ave., Katonah, NY 10536
>914-232-6405
>
>Love and prayers, Joicy
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