Thank You Swamiji for Being There for Me

Infinite salutations at your divine lotus feet Swamiji and immense gratitude 🙇‍♀️ 💐 🌹

It was in Jan or Feb 2022, i had this dream one early morning, i saw my father just collapsing infront of my eyes and i started calling out “Swamiji..Swamiji..” loudly, then i saw myself sitting alone on a bench inside a hospital, there was a painful silence engulfing me…and then i woke up, that sad silence just stayed with me for whole day and following couple of days. I didn’t know what to make of this dream.

Just a little background on my relationship with my father. It was never a lovey-dovey relationship. But he always stood by me in every walk of my life, in all decisions I made, be it impulsive ones or otherwise. Just to quote one example, it was a very challenging period both financially and emotionally when i was studying engineering. As soon i finished engineering he said to me, “Do MBA, don’t worry about the financial situation, i will see if i can arrange for some loan”. His son was suffering from schizophrenia, financially it was difficult even to meet ends, and he knew that it will be an investment on daughter where there will be no returns. Anyway neither i wanted to burden him nor i wanted to study further so i didn’t pursue higher education. Till date he is supporting me in someway or the other. 

During May this year, he started complaining of chest pain while walking. He has been physically active all his life, he used walk for an hour everyday. So he never doubted there could be any heart problem, and ECG was also normal, but when it became difficult to walk even few steps, we decided to get his angiogram done.

Doctor showed us his beating heart and explained us, it is 95% blocked, tripple artery disease, neither stent nor bypass could be done, only endarterectomy is the possible solution. 

We consulted some of the best surgeons in Bangalore, all said risk is of about 8%. Risk can be a stroke, organ failure etc during or after the surgery.

My father is financially well to do now, decision to get him operated from best surgeon wouldn’t have been financially challenging, but then I couldn’t make that decision for my father, risk was too much to take. In the meantime i came to know about a non-invasive procedure called EECP, which they say is FDA approved, we went looking for clinics who did the procedure. Finally we found one of the best but not so famous Cardiologist who was doing this procedure. And finally decided to go for this procedure rather than surgery. I really didn’t know if it was the best decision or i was playing with my father’s life. But he didn’t question my decision, though most of the hospitals and doctors didn’t recommend this procedure, and they had said heartattack is inevitable if surgery is not done within a week or two. While even my husband was not confident about the decision even though we had come to know about the treatment from my father in law.

EECP is a month long, one hour per day procedure, so everyday i was going along with my father, with not very sure of the decision, lot of uncertainty and guilt. One day during the procedure ECG showed a very low pulse rate, and just immediately after the procedure he just collapsed infront of my eyes, i thought for a second”it is all over!” i pushed a sorbitrate tablet through his clenched teeth, and i found myself calling out Swamiji Swamiji loudly without bothered about all the nurses around my father, and then asking nurses to please take him to nearby good multispeciality hospital ..before they made arrangements to take him to emergency care he regained his consciousness and i was asked to wait outside the room as they wanted to do some tests. I sat alone outside on a bench no one in the corridor, worried for my father’s current situation and feeling guilty if i was the reason for this…and recollecting the dream that i had seen couple of months back..

Minutes passed, they said everything was alright, but asked me to get him admitted for a day, so that they could monitor the pulse rate..

It has been 2 and a half months since this incident. He is doing better, treatment seems to be working, he still gets pain now and then, when he does brisk walk, but much better than what it was earlier.

Now he has changed his diet to millets, morning he just eats whole green moog boiled, he is having bottle gourd juice along with Tulsi and durva grass, more than anything he listens to Gayathri mantra in Swamiji’s voice in Sadhana app 20min everyday inthe morning, keeping apana vayu mudra.

Thank you Swamiji, it is only your grace that he is well today. You stood by my decision, if something had happened that day i would have been guilty all my life, thank you so much, immense gratitude Swamiji 💐🙇‍♀️

For heart patients for whom it is even beyond bypass surgery, the option such as EECP can be tried, i have heard first hand experience from close relatives where the breathlessness went away completely and he is healthy, where he was given just 3 months time, almost 5 years back. I guess it works very well for some patients, an option to go for, if there are no surgical options. Sharing some of the links below..

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/16949-enhanced-external-counterpulsation-eecp#:~:text=Enhanced%20External%20Counterpulsation%20(EECP),as%20chest%20pain%20and%20pressure.

1. In Bangalore Dr Suresh Krishnamurthy who is a cardiologist is doing this procedure. Excelcare hospital 

2. SAAOL heart centers are all over India

Apana vayu mudra for heart

And also feel free to contact me in case you need further information about the treatment.

I would still suggest, read through the treatment thoroughly, also check with people who has undergone the treatment and take the decision only if you are convinced and if surgery is not an option.

Thank you once again Swamiji 🙇‍♀️💐🌹