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Thanks for this information.  I was wondering what it meant when you wrote that the human being is an eternal spirit in the last analysis and this is not the end for your father. It is only the body which is in trouble.  I am very curious.

Thanks,
Laura :)



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My dad, who is now 65 years old, has fallen over 10 years ago and broke his neck.  Due to this he had to have surgery to wire together the bones in his neck.  Since that operation, he has gone through a physical and metal regression every year.  Each year he loses more of his capacity to move physically and function mentally.  I hate to see this happen to him and wonder if there is anything that can be done to reverse this?

He is described by doctors to have myelopathy from the neck injury.  In addition, he may have had a slight stroke causing semiparalysis to the right side of his body.  It has gotten so bad over the years that now he is in a wheelcahir (when he used to walk on his own with a walker), he can hardly use that side any more.  

His speech has gotten so bad that I can barely understand what he is saying, yet I am amazed at his memory sometimes.  he has good days and bad days (of course it all depends on what kinds of drugs the nursing home is pumping him with)..but generally his capacities vary from day to day.  Sometimes he remembers me, sometimes not.  It never used to be like this and I would like to have any advice you have on this to help him.  Possibly reverse it, or stop it from worsening.  In addition, my father has petit mal epilepsy (had it since he was about 12).  

Thanks,
concerned daughter
Answer -
Laura:

I am sorry to hear about your father's condition.

The fact that he has had petit mal seizures since he was twelve years old tells me that he has had a problem with draining the brain juice from his head for that length of time. The brain juice (cerebro spinal fluid) has to get out of the head bones since it is secreted there to go to the rest of the nerves. If it cannot, brain damage will result. The blockage to this flow is most often a out of position bone in the skull which will not let the fluid go where it should.

Given his history and injuries and surgeries, we do not have a good prognosis. The only pale hope would be to get him to a good doctor who can move the skull bones to let the drainage occur. But with the drugs and the nursing home factors, even that has a limited effect.

The human being is an eternal spirit in the last analysis and this is not the end for your father. It is only the body which is in trouble.

I wish there was another way. If you find one, let me know.

Dr. Rozeboom.

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Laura:

You are welcome!

In my comment you refer to, I am making the point that the human being is more than a body. They are a spirit, a soul, a thetan. Whateve name you want to call it. And that essence of them is eternal. This essence, the spirit itself, will live on in one form or another, in good shape or in bad shape. But it is not bound by the physical body forever. The body is simply a method of expression for/of the spirit.

This is a fact common to all religions. The fact that a human being is a spiritual being has been thoroughly hidden in modern society. And so we need to look at the human being as a spirit from time to time, to refresh our knowledge of this fact.

Dr. Rozeboom