Hospital Stay Improved
with EFT
by Kay Christopher, MA, EFTCert-II
A client recently had
knee replacement surgery. We used EFT to deal with his
anxiety in preparation for the surgery and he felt very
calm and prepared the morning he went into the
hospital. Things did not go quite as he had planned,
however. He hoped to be home after three days but his
hospital stay was extended to two weeks due to the need for
physical therapy. In addition, he caught pneumonia while
there. There were many occasions to feel anxiety over those
two weeks but he remembered to use EFT and his experience
was amazingly positive.
“It was supremely helpful to be
frustrated and tap and let go of the frustration—so I never
got down in the dumps in the hospital. The physical
therapists all liked me because I would do my best and I
always had a smile for them. EFT is responsible for that. I
could have moped around because my plans were changed, my
time-table was gone. I let go of all that. After tapping it
was, “So? I still deeply love, forgive and accept myself.”
It was so helpful to be able to get to that
place.
“I learned at the physical therapy
hospital, when they were doing therapy on my leg, that I
could attack anxiety one-on-one and defeat it. So I wasn’t
intimidated. I just tapped and got rid of
it.”
His oxygen level was 85-88% so he had
oxygen tubes up his nose. The tubes were wrapped around his
ears and made blisters on them, and his made him feel very
frustrated and anxious. So one evening he decided to use
EFT on the frustration and anxiety and they faded away. The
next morning his oxygen level was 97-99% and the nurse
took the tubes away. He believes there is a strong
likelihood that EFT improved his oxygen
level.
When his wife left his bedside at the end
of the day and he was all alone he would be left with high
anxiety. He remembered to use EFT. “The anxiety left just
like my wife left—almost like the anxiety had been sitting
in the chair and was gone.”
I just got off the phone with him. When I
called he was lying in bed and his knee pain was a 6-7. We
got it down to a 1 and then also tapped for being pain free
when he stood up to walk around. He just called me back to
let me know he’s been walking through several rooms in his
house both with and without his walker and he is pain
free.
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