Today, I was in Marble with my family discussing back pain and treatments for it and what could be of help because my father suffers from chronic pain. Dad is the strongest guy I know, I have never met anyone else with his endurance to withstand the coldest of cold working in the Yule Marble Quarry for 16 years, running heavy equipment, driving some of the rockiest roads Colorado has to offer on a daily basis in through the summers of our (my three sisters and I) childhood. All of it did a number to Dad's back, his disks are completely collapsed he also has Spinal Stenosis which creates calcium deposits around his spine and discs also scoliosis from the collapse. He could barely walk for two years, he couldn't get up out of bed, he had spinal seizures and spasms that almost paralyzed him. He would have to army crawl to the john and well lets just say he needed assistance getting up off the thing. Dad was 54 when all of this came down hard on our family, now 57. He tried it all, chiropractors helped as much as they could knowing that what he had was so severe that surgeons would recommend he have his lower lumbar bones completely chopped out of his body!! Dad tried going to a witch doctor which was really, really amazing, helped move some energy that had been trapped inside his body for years and years, acupuncture and all these exercises the practitioners gave him. Everything made him hurt more and weakened him. He was in so much pain finally that he broke down thinking he needed morphine shots to kill the pain. Knowing my dad morphine was not going to kill the pain just make him really depressed and sleepy and that is no life for this guy.
I got bold and suggested to my Dad who right now at this moment in time was completely against the MaryJane movement. So much so that I thought he was going to kill me when I suggested, I make a medical cannabis ointment for him with coconut oil.
Dad said "Shit, I'll try anything at this point".
I just about fainted on the floor when he said yes, and I was stunned my dad just said yes to me going to a pot shop and getting some medical marijuana. So I went in and got the strongest most pure Indica plant I could find. This strain is for pain and sleep. This stuff was like holy hell damn stanky organic earthy stuff. I began the break down process of making this ointment. I had seen someone make it before but never tried it myself. Intimidated as I was, I had to get my Dad back on his feet and moving again. Four hours of slow cooking the stuff in coconut oil with green tea leaf, Echinacea, flower and straining pressing the goodness out of the plants also I added many, many prayers. I placed it all in a jar and let it cool down. I gave it to my mom and she had dad start using it immediately.
What happened over the next week was a miracle, Dad started feeling better he wasn't sure why. He was on numerous vitamins, mineral supplements, Ibuprofen for pain, Amino Sculpt a supplement of collagen he was taking all this and using the salve at night.
My dad decided to try an experiment on him self, he is kind of known for this kind of thing. He stopped his regimen of vitamins and minerals pain pills and salve. Just to see how long he could go without it. Dad did okay for the day time, you could see he was in extreme pain but was biting through it by breathing it out. Bed time rolled around and at about 2 am he started to spasm so bad he couldn't move, he waited two hours in this spasm before he forced himself out of bed screaming and growling his way to the bathroom where he kept his salve. When he applied it he felt a sensation wash over him, he laid on the bathroom floor for about 15 minutes before trying to move. Scared out of his mind to move, he tried and he could! He got up and walked, WALKED to his bed and passed out he didn't have any more spasms that night or the next day! Dad was in tears when he called me and told me he could move and was not in agonizing pain, he started using it every night.
Dad went to bed one night and had a dream of building a machine that would help his back. This machine was his new obsession, the next morning he called my brother in law who is a welder and explained his idea to him. He was impressed and said sure I will build you some prototypes. When my dad sets his mind on something he gets it done! He started his machine and everyday he got better for about three months, Dad did his machine three times a day all week. He is now pain free, pain med free and salve free. We are in the process of patenting this machine so we can market it to all who suffer from lower back pain and we hope to have it out by next year.
It was a crazy three years without my dad being able to work and my mom running her art gallery with no marble products but for the first time in three years my dad is able to be himself and he has a new found respect for his body and ability to move it. "He likes to move it move it!"
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