End of life care from a medical point of view

Dear Vögtlis,

I have been the primary care physician for Thea, who died peacefully this morning in the nursing home.

She was the only patient of mine who was initiated in Reiki like me, I have the second degree. This is a rarity in a rural village.

Thea turned 88 and I just wanted to tell you that she gave herself a Reiki self-treatment every day, but basically limiting it to the head-neck-upper chest area.

Thea ….. So gift of God, who is gifted, the healer. Her grandmother was a wart-speaker and could also perform other small healings. However, she told Thea when she was little not to treat anyone outside the family because her powers were too weak compared to her own.

Yesterday evening I sat alone at her bedside for 2 hours and I thought of many things, including those who initiated Thea into the first degree in Bremen over 15 years ago. She always spoke of you with the highest regard. With Reiki she was able to help herself, her grandchildren and other family members to some extent, but she did not treat people outside in the spirit of her grandmother. In already higher age of almost 80 years she was a few times at our Reiki meeting, where I myself had been initiated in 2002. However, I got to know Reiki already in 1993 when the patient of a colleague in our psychiatric center wanted to be taken to a Reiki master by her relatives. As you can imagine, we were very suspicious of this at the time.

I digressed. I just thought that it would be of interest to you as a teacher that there was someone who was very disciplined in treating himself until he was very old, every day.

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