Encouraging Angels: Caretaking Decisions Made During Catastrophic Illness Provide Insight Into How to Carry On

Caretaking Decisions Made During Catastrophic Illness Provide Insight Into How to Carry On Through Complete Disaster Of Which We All Are On the Cusp Of

By Stan Szymanski

My story, in a sense, will soon be the story of everyone. Soon every family will have to make a decision what they choose to do to fight the enemy that has invaded their lives. Today is the 14th anniversary of the death of my daughter. Hannah Rose Szymanski was victorious in life and in her death. Her passing is a triumph in the lives of the caregivers, her parents, over death, disease and the Devil through the blood of Jesus and the Word of this testimony. This testimony is available to all.

At age 2, my daughter Hannah Rose Szymanski, stopped talking. At 2 1/2 she started falling, not even sticking her arms out to break her toppling. She was diagnosed with ‘Williams Syndrome’. ‘Williams’ kids might not grow up to be a doctor or lawyer; they would most likely do work as something like a bagger at the grocery store and live in assisted living. With Hannah however, the myoclonic seizures started and her hands and feet started turning shades of blue and purple.

When she was 4 1/4 years of age Hannah was diagnosed with ‘Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis’(LINCL)-the ‘Late Infantile’ form of Batten Disease. In this disease the children are resigned to being blind, bedridden, demented and are resigned die in the throes of seizures that no one or no amount of seizures medication can stop.

When Hannah started to manifest with symptoms I was working as a Board Certified Financial Planner for one of the biggest Wire Houses in the world. I went from working 6 days a week to 5, then 4, then 3, then 2 and then I had a ‘mutually agreed upon termination’. I had to make up my mind if I was going to have a career or take care of my daughter. I and my wife chose to take care of Hannah. Ourselves. At home.

This led to a complete and immediate loss of all of my income. Oh, the firm gave me a parting gift; about 1/20th of what my book was worth. My wife worked part time and we lived off of savings for as long as it lasted. When the money ran out we started Encouraging Angels. The CEO of a local institution saw a story in the local paper about us, invited us to her office and gave me the opportunity to deliver music services to their organizations’ in house population and provide us with severely needed income.

Hannah’s condition was, up until this point, thought to be irreversible; a ‘fait accompli’. We were bound and determined to help her and not hurt her. When it comes to fatal brain disease there is very little that allopathic medicine does that is anything short of ‘Frankensteinian’. It usually involves some sort of drilling into the brain and dripping something in to see what happens.

I theorized the use of a metabolite that is natural to the human body that had never been used in this manner. I found a Chemist in Boston, Dr. Suresh Srivastava who was capable of making this idea come to life. In nine months we went from idea to practical application. After we gave Hannah the metabolite: her blood normalized, her seizures were reduced remarkably, she began sleeping through the night and here hands and feet stopped turning shades of blue and purple (amelioration of ammonia problem).

Even with much ‘neurological water’ under the bridge (lots of dark area between the skull and brain on pics of the brain), we gave Hannah almost 5 more -good- years of life before The Lord took her home 14 years ago today at age 10 1/2. Dr. Srivastava and I share 4 granted United States Patents (7932287, 8389577, 8518992 and 8778996).

I have gone to some length to share with you the unique and catastrophic story a large episode in the life of my family. I am not doing this for sensation. I am going through this epic to share a real life story on how to carry on and come through the tribulation we find ourselves in.

This very moment, the very ground is shifting beneath our feet. At a minimum, the financial system of the world is being changed as it shifts from a purely fiat (backed only by a printing press at the will of a central authority) to one linked or backed by precious metals and physical commodities. I lost/used everything I had saved to save the life of my daughter. Right now, the consideration of even a small portion of your investable assets in precious metals may save you from a lifetime of regret when the banks declare a ‘holiday’ (bank run) and you have no access to your money like what happened in Cypress in 2013. Everyone in the West may lose large portions of their life savings if they don’t consider what has been money for 5,000 years-the precious metals. It is easier to fight if you have resources. In my situation, I ran out of money and someone saw my plight with my daughter and gave me employ; who will do that for you when there is no economy and no jobs? Even more important than the metals, you had better establish a relationship with Jesus so that you learn to completely lean on him -now- and not when the soup lines start in earnest. Enter into a true relationship (with repentance and desire to have Him as your Lord and Savior) with Him now so that later He doesn’t say…’Depart From Me’…because He doesn’t know you. My wife and I were strong believers by the time Hannah exhibited symptoms. Even after I was working again, there were times when we were three months behind on our mortgage. Only by the grace of God did we make it through those times. If you trust Him, God will never leave you and never forsake you. Please use this writing to consider for yourself and your situation how to provide for yourself during the upcoming collapse.

Because of the adoption of the ‘jab’ by 2/3 of the worlds’ population, large swaths of society are experiencing permanent disabilty, life threatening events, hospitalization and death. It is mind boggling to think of the newly minted -millions- of disabled due to Pfizers’ pugilistic puncture of the populace. Many families will now be consumed with the care of a previously well family member just because of the vax or booster, let alone what else may be coming down the pike. How are you prepared to care for the those who will need your help? Do you at least have food for them-enough for an extended period of convalescence? How about investigating what other therapeutic intervention might be available to ameliorate at least some of the suffering (this is not medical advice-please consult a medical doctor)? Regarding my daughter, the doctors had very little in the way of help for us and certainly nothing in the way of therapeutics. Click the link above and consider if you have options that your ‘doctor’ hasn’t shared with you. When the time comes, it may be only you that someone has as a first responder. In 98% of the ‘events’ with Hannah, we were the first responder for her.

I want to tell you that, in a crisis situation, having the ability to help and not hurt a damaged person is critical. What if there is another lockdown? What if there is war? Do you have some modicum of caretaking skills to be able to help the injured? Can you do CPR? Can you correctly put on a tourniquet? Can you competently stop bleeding of a wound? If not, is there a nurse or doctor nearby? Do you have at least some of the supplies one would need to do so (bandages/splints , tourniquet, OTC medicine etc.) and know how to administer these if no one else is around? Do you have the desire and gumption ahead of time to commit to doing this for you and yours? My wife and I took care of Hannah at an ICU level of care in our own home with no nurse to help us which included (but was not limited to): administration of meds, physical positioning of a non mobile person, tube feeding and prep of food, sleeping with a baby monitor for 10 years because a non mobile person with neurological impairment can choke on their own saliva if not kept in appropriate position (awake or asleep) and when they do gag you can hear it on the monitor, innovative thinking to make the life of the affected better (for us it was our patented metabolic work and the use of shelf liner under her to keep her from slipping down in a seat, a wheelchair or while sleeping). I almost forgot-episodic oxygen application, daily physical therapy and an occasional trip to the museum.

When your world crashes down in a heap you need to be purposefully committed to each other in your family/group. After all we have been through, my wife and I will celebrate our 31st year of marriage in a few months. There are many times that all we had was each other. When things are bad, even the ‘Christians’ around you will tell you to pack it in. We had one ‘friend’ who was the wife of a doctor who told us that when she saw us with our daughter Hannah, the witch said that she (my daughter) would be better off dead. Needless to say that was the last time we allowed her to be in the presence of my daughter. In the new upcoming reality, that may mean your friends (or pastor) will tell you when there is no food or electricity, to go to the FEMA camp where the food and hot water supposedly is. What they didn’t tell you is that in actuality it is a ‘work’ camp where you will ‘work’ yourself to death if they don’t just lop off everything above your neck first because in doing so they think that they are doing God a favor. Talk about fair-weather friend/bad weather backstabber.

Who do you know that if you had to go through a cataclysm with that they wouldn’t turn on you? If you have already been through something of gravity and there were those who stuck by you-those are most likely to be faithful in the upcoming world upheaval that will test all of us. If it were me, I would stick with them. There may be richer friends. There may be more popular acquaintances. But the allies that had your back when you had cancer, when your spouse left you or when you did something really stupid, those are the ones to share the same ground with when the going gets rough. The person who turned their back on you or showed that they were a rat when times were relatively good-not so much.

In the coming world festivities hosted by the global ringmasters, there unfortunately is going to be death. It could be death from the jab. It could be death from a new plague. It could be a nuclear event-did you know that PSA’s are playing in New York City right now that are warning people to be ready for such a thing?

When death occurs, it takes time to get over the death of a loved one. In our case, I can tell you that the year after Hannah’s death was a blur. The other thing about a death is that in the process of grieving, that one goes through all of the life events that will not happen because that person is gone. For instance, you will not have that person at the Thanksgiving table with you next time you dine on turkey. For us, we had to grieve while our daughter was alive regarding many life events we would not get to have with her. She would not go the prom or graduate high school or college. I would not walk her down the aisle. She would not bear us grandchildren. She would not take care of us when we got old. When all of these things hit you at one time, it is a lot to contemplate. I recommend that all who read this and who love Jesus to be thankful for the person you had in your life and the relationship that you had with them. Be thankful for all the experiences that God allowed you to have. You enjoy the good ones and learned from the tough ones.

When Hannah died, we grieved for our loss of her. But in the beginning, when we had a choice to either take care of her or institutionalize her, we chose to take care of her. Because of this, either I was with her and my wife was working or my wife was with her and I was working or, we both were with her. When she died, we had no remorse that we could have spent any more time with her, because we couldn’t have. We played all 60 minutes of the the game. When whatever is coming comes (even if it is Klaus Schwab carrying a Dr. Evil lunchbox with the nuclear football inside) and you have given all to your family/group cause, care and personage, you will have no regrets before man or God in the carrying out of your duties and responsibilities. Choose to care for your people without equivocation. I believe that God will protect and care for when you need it for the scripture says:

Blessed are those who have regard for the weak; the Lord delivers them in times of trouble.

The Lord protects and preserves them—they are counted among the blessed in the land—he does not give them over to the desire of their foes.

The Lord sustains them on their sickbed and restores them from their bed of illness. (Psalm 41:1-3 NIV)

If you care for those who need it God will deliver you in times of trouble, from your foes and restore you when you are sick. That is a God issued warranty for those who care for the weak. I can tell you from experience that God makes good on His promises and means what He says. When the world tells you to jettison your affected family or group member, do not listen to that voice. When the time comes, make the commitment to care for the weaker one and God will not forget you; He will in fact, bless you and sustain you.

Today in remembering my daughter I am calling on all Christians to prepare themselves to carry on and to come through the tribulation that is upon us.

Will you be one of the saved who will sing the song of Moses and the Lamb who were…

…’victorious over the beast and its image and over the number of its name.’…(Rev. 15:2 NIV)

This is just before God pours out the bowls of His wrath on the earth in Revelation 16:1. As believers in Jesus Christ as our Lord, we are not appointed to the wrath of God. The wrath of God is for the unbelievers. Since believers are not appointed to God’s wrath, He will safely take us out of the way before he pours out His wrath. Unfortunately it is the wrath of the Devil that we must go through. God is faithful to His saved.

So prepare now to endure. How will you sing victoriously (Revelation 15) if you don’t have food to eat to sustain you until then? What if someone you care for convalesces now and then is one of those singing after defeating the enemy (that would be awesome)? God is looking for those who are looking to endure until the end. He is not looking for cowards.

I could go on writing about just how much suffering that my daughter endured in this life. In her suffering, God made her Mom and Dad stronger. In the caring for those suffering, God will strengthen and uphold you.

Just before she stopped talking at age 2, I can also see in retrospect that Hannah was starting to lose her vision as kids with LINCL do. She walked up to the old antenna television while Christian cartoons were on in the morning. She pressed her face up to the glass of the TV and uttered the name …‘Jesus’…

Before we each breath our last breath we should be so blessed as to have that name in our lips…

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Stan Szymanski (or Encouraging Angels) is not a medical doctor. This is not medical advice. In all matters pertaining to the health and care of a human being consult a medical doctor. This is not legal, financial or personal advice. Consult appropriate professionals in those fields for that type of advice.

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About the Author: NC Scout

NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .

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