Beulah Amsterdam of Davis, California has written a poem for us in The Main Central Jin Shin Jyutsu Newsletter, issue Number 50, Fall 2005:

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BUNNY’S TOES

Pink tulip fingernails rise

in the nursing home bed

where her hip grows stronger.

Black socks shroud

Gangrenous toes and foot.

Bunny refuses amputation.

She’d rather die.

After her husband died

her precancerous right breast was sacrificed.

Her left breast was carved, radiated,

uterus removed, left eye lost to glaucoma,

left index finger amputated.

Bunny’s toes, fingers, ankles, knees,

hip, pubis, coccyx, groin are jumpercabled

till the comedians laugh

and Bunny jokes about her antiquity.

The Chinese surgeon is astounded

by the pale pink sunrise

from ancient black toes.

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When Mary Olander and I returned from our first Jin Shin Jyutsu class, a friend told me his 84-year-old step-mother, who was recovering from hip surgery in a nursing home, now had gangrene in her foot. Mary and I were inspired by Wayne Hackett’s ebullient optimism to immediately use our jumper cables, and we each treated Bunny an hour a day. We did a lot of 5-6-7-8, 15, 1 and Main Central. The surgeon was astounded two weeks later when he saw Bunny’s pink foot. Pat Meador recently informed me that when Mary Burmeister treated someone with a similar condition, the gangrene was gone in 2 days. We don’t know how soon Bunny recovered from the gangrene because we did not take off her sock to look.

Thank you, Beulah.

Thank you, Mary.

Thank you, David.

Gassho, Namaste, Blessings

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