I have told you all before about my German friend Nüle.  I met her on a
poultry newsgroup and she came over to help when my mother died suddenly in
2003.  We have mailed each other nearly every day since late 2002 and she
has been here 3 times, and I've been over to Germany once.  We are really
great friends, we have almost everything in common.

As it happens, she is a homeopath.  She studied medicine for 6 years and
decided this was the path she wanted to go down.

She phoned me on Saturday night and we talked for two hours. She said it
could do no harm to give homeopathy a chance while I am waiting for surgery.
I don't know whether any of you have had a consultation with a homeopath,
but let me say it's very thorough and takes a long time.  "*Is it better for
heat or for cold?"  etc etc.

She decided on a remedy after reportarising (sp??) for a few hours. This
involves consulting lots of books to find a remedy that fits as many of the
symptoms as possible.

The remedy is called Lachesis.  She sent two envelopes with it in case one
should go missing in the post (belt and braces girl, this one!)
They both arrived today.  In the first one was the dosage she wants me to
take for the next four days (also in the second one.)
In the second one is different potencies of Lachesis too, in case it needs
to be moved up a gear.

For those who are interested, here is a little of what she said in her
e-mail about how/when/what

"Lachesis is a very strong remedy, as I told you it is made from a very
poisonous snake venom and it has a special affinity to the female organs,
especially the ovaries. It has cured both cysts and cancerous affections of
the ovaries, as long as they started on the left side. It is a left- sided
remedy in general, I have successfully used it in inflammations of the
throat that were painful only on the left, or started there and spread to
the right side later.
Lachesis can have a very sensitive skin and cannot bear the touch of
clothes, especially round the neck and waist. It also has burning pains a
lot, as well as sensations of heat (or flushes of heat, which you haven't).
All in all, I hope it will give you some relief.."

Well, I had done as I was told the previous day, and supercleaned a jam jar
and filled it with boiled water, and then in the fridge to put the remedy in
when it arrived, which I did and was able to take it as instructed,
dissolved and shaken very hard 20 minutes later.  N told me to take it as
soon as possible when it arrived, we don't have early letter delivery here,
and then take it as soon as I wake up in the morning and last thing before I
go to sleep at night.

I have taken no painkillers at all today.  I have had pain, but it's
tolerable unlike last week when I needed morphine and volterol
suppositories.
I shall take some before I go to bed, though, so I can get a peaceful night.
I am determined to live.  My cats need me and so do my chickens, lots of
them are geriatric, I have two 11 years old.  They are Appenzellers, these
two old girls,  a Swiss breed marked like a dalmatian and with a horned comb
and a crest on the head like a thistle flower.  Have a google on Appenzeller
Spitzhauben.  I also have Sicilian Buttercups and Lakenfelder both large
fowl, and Barnevelder bantams, I was a sucker for trying to keep the rare
breeds going.

Tweed