Recovering from Aids

by Dan Wray

This is an excerpt from an article in the Spring 2004 issue of the Reiki News Magazine.

Finding out I had AIDS in January of 1998 was devastating, especially as I was in the hospital extremely ill with Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia (PCP, a bacterial parasite type pneumonia) and could hardly breathe. During this time, a dear friend of mine called on a Reiki practitioner he knew and asked her to visit me in the hospital. I did not understand why this lady I didn't even know would want to sit with me several days a week for an hour at a time, especially when I could hardly even speak most of the time.

I remember this stranger asking me if I would allow her to visit and send me energy for healing. While not fully understanding what she meant, I nodded yes-I was willing to try just about anything. After three weeks in the hospital, I finally recovered enough to go home, but I wasn't prepared to handle what was to happen during the next four months-four months that changed my life in the worst way for the better.

Over the next four months, I literally had to be carried into the hospital emergency room to be diagnosed with something different each month, and each month I would be in the hospital for a minimum of two to three weeks. In January and March I suffered from pneumonia (PCP), and in February I had a severe paralyzing reaction to my AIDS medications. But perhaps the most devastating time was in April, the week of my birthday, when I contracted an opportunistic intestinal parasite and Cytomegalovirus (CMV retinitus), a rare eye virus that usually causes one to go blind-even if the four-hour, daily IV treatment works.

Several of the doctors who were treating me said that I should get my affairs in order because they had not seen anyone go through what my body was experiencing with AIDS-related diseases and survive very long. Yet, every month the doctors were amazed that I recuperated. I now attribute much of my recovery to the Reiki and prayers that I was receiving. . . . . . . . . .

. . . . .One thing I find particularly amazing is that not until I decided to practice Reiki did I notice major consistent improvement in my health. It was after I became attuned to Reiki I & II and began practicing on other people with AIDS that I noticed my T-Cells finally going up consistently and the HIV virus in my body becoming undetectable with each set of labs that came back. . . . . . .