A lady comes with a surgical issue of pus oozing out of the scar of a cesarean done 20 years ago, at regular intervals. She said she had repeatedly reported to the doctors that she felt as if something was stuck at the suture site. Doctors treated her for infection, but finally said that the issue was not resolving. So she thought of going in for an alternative treatment and approached me for regression. I was skeptical, as it was obviously a case of something that had gone wrong during surgery. But subsequently we decided to go ahead and see what comes up during the therapy.
Presenting Conditions and Medical Prognosis
- Pus oozing out of the scar of a cesarean section.
- Doctors suspect a bacterial infection and treat her with IV or oral antibiotics for two weeks. The remission lasts for two-three months after which the wound becomes septic again, and that convinces my client that it is an infection.
- She continues with the antibiotic course but is unable to find a permanent solution.
Findings through Regression Therapy
During the regression session my client sees herself as a woman in one of her past lives, who is married into a family where she does not find favor with her in-laws. They torture her, but she is ignorant of the fact that the situation is so extreme that they want to get rid of her. One night, when she is full-term pregnant, masked men enter the room where she is sleeping and tie up her mouth and hands tightly with a rope. They carry her to a marshy area and she is laid to sink in the marsh, with one end of the rope tied to the trunk of a tree and the other end tightly wound around her pregnant belly. As the woman starts sinking into the marsh, she feels miserable and devastated with the thought, “My baby is going to die.” It is terrible as she sinks nose-deep, with the rope tightening around her belly and killing the fetus. The woman’s dying thought is, “I couldn’t save my baby.”
Metaphor of the Memory in Present Life
What happens in this life that triggered this memory? In her current life she is again troubled by her mother-in-law and her husband doesn’t support her. Hence when she gets pregnant she goes to stay at her mother’s place. At the end of nine months she is taken for a C-section. On the operating table, she is scared when she sees people in masks and her hands are restrained. As the face mask is put on her for anaesthesia, the doctor tells her that she will experience a momentary ‘sinking feeling’, which increases her fear and then she becomes unconscious.
After delivering the baby, as she was being sutured, she comes out of the anaesthetic effect partially and sees the doctor with a mask and holding a suture (surgical stitching thread) in his hand. Upon this vision, she panics. The doctors immediately hold her tight, restrain her, and sedate her again. Hands tied up, big belly, anaesthetic masks on the doctors’ faces, masked doctors with sutures in their hands – this instantly triggers the memory of her hands and mouth being tied up with a rope by masked men who leave her to sink in the marsh when she is full-term pregnant with her baby in her past life. The suture reminds her of the rope with which she was tied up and left to die. Furthermore, briefly seeing her belly open and her baby missing from the belly fills her with the thought that “I am sinking….” Even after many years of surgery, her wound did not heal and pus kept oozing out at regular intervals.
Condition Post Regression
After a week the client called me and said, “You know what happened? This time, when the pus began to ooze out, something popped out of my wound.” I asked, “What was that?” “It’s a suture.” The surgical thread, a piece of the suture material that had been left behind in her wound during the surgery! That is what was making her suffer so much. With the suture out of her system, the surgical wound has now completely healed and there no trace of any pus or infection.
This surprised me quite a bit because, although expelling out the suture may have been spontaneous, it was hard to believe that something that had remained in her body for 20 long years had been thrown out just within 4 weeks of therapy! To me, it suggested the fact of a deep memory being stuck in the tissue and the corresponding metaphor, which she was holding on to.