Dear devotees,
Dandavats pranams,
Here i am posting for the benefit and information of all the receivers of
this conference the report sent by HG Dr. Acyutananda das Prabhu who has
been with HH JPS Gurumaharaja since the very beginning serving him and now
also traveling with him in Los Angeles.
this reports intends to clear out some doubt and to give a clear picture of
the current situation of the health of Gurumaharaja as well as to give some
advices to all the disciples and well-wishers of GM who are concerned about
his progress in order to achieve some sort of independence in his physical
movements.
As you all know HH JPS is a first class preacher and devotee, always
thinking in how to serve his Divine Gurudeva, Srila Prabhupada, so he very
rarely thinks in his body and the physical limitations he has to stop his
traveling or preaching’s, but it is up to us to take care of these issues
and understand the situation with maturity and take always the proper
decision for the benefit or Gurumaharaja above of all our sentimentalism or
desires. in this way we helping GM in his recevery period and offer more
devotional service and follow up his instructions,
We pray to Sri Sri Radha Mahdava, Sri Panca Tattva Bhagavan, Lord
Narasimhadeva and Srila Prabhupada to always protect Gurumaharaja and bless
all the devotees surrounding Gurumaharaja who are serving him with love and
devotion.
ys
tustimohan krsna das,
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April 7th, 2010.
FROM
Dr. ACHYUTANANDA DAS
FOR ALL THE DISCIPLES OF HH JAYAPATAKA MAHARAJ.
Hare Krishna dear devotees /
Please accept my humble obiesances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
After being requested by Mahavaraha prabhu,I am presenting the current
health status of HH Jayapataka maharaj.
This relates also to the question of till what time Jayapataka
maharaj should stay here in USA and future travelling, treatment plans .
We have been here in Los Angeles going to the High Hopes Head
Injury programme since we have come here , that is for the last four
months.
It includes four days of rigorous therapies at that place and at the
weekend some other correlated therapies , pool, some preaching movements. So
for the first time after many many months Jayapataka maharaj has been
steady at one place , concentrating on the therapy, with one
physiotherapist. It has included personal supervision, personal interest of
the
therapist with maharaj and use of various forms of equipment. The
effects of this is. he is steady at one level of performance, having a
little by little progress.
It has not been dramatic, that he is without any support been able to
walk, which is the goal for all these hard work. But he is now able to
swim by forward stroke, right hand is more stable, more often writing by
the right hand is clearer, can stand alone without any support for more
time,
walking with lesser need for support. These seem to be very little in
comparison to what maharaj wants, or we want or he had hoped that he would
soon walk independently and begin his preaching tours again. Definitely
we are far away from that goal, and looking at the gains we can easily say
that it may not happen at near sight whatever we may do.
So to discuss all these issues we had a nice meeting with all the
servants and the chief staff of the High Hopes programme. The
meeting was very nice and the salient points of the meeting are as follows:
*Every 48 hour that Jayapataka maharaj does not do proper
exercise and physiotherapy, he is going to lose immediately his gain
with regards to his independent abilities*.
Any 48 hour that Jayapataka maharaja is out of good set up of physiotherapy
he has to compulsorily return back to hard work of
physiotherapy, swimming and other therapies.
In that estimate if Jayapataka maharaja has been away from nice
forms of therapies for one month because of travelling and other
reasons he will require six months of hard work to gain back to the
level that he had left from.
Hence wherever he is, Jayapataka maharaj has to dovetail minimum for
Four hours for rigorous physiotherapy, this is for the next many many
years , may be for the life time .
For this he has to learn to say no to so many of proposals that
disturb his schedule of therapies. Learning to say no to so many
people who come forward to divert his attention on the schedule of
therapies is extremely important. All the proposals can be scheduled
in the line of need of focus on therapies in the day and programmes at
other time.
*There is every chance of a second stroke if proper balance of rest
and exercise is not maintained*. Hence he can not have a stressful
life style any more. Whole style of functioning has to change. The
focus being on regular exercise and then combination of preaching. Thus the
place wherever he has to stay has to be chosen in the matter of
availability of pool, proper physiotherapy place and other medical
facilities.
*There is no quick fix*, this stroke rehabilitation continues for the
next twenty years. Hence we can not expect that at one day he just
gets up and finds himself miraculously walking totally independently. This
training is going to continue for long time , hence better to stay at home
after some time and continue pool therapy, physiotherapy and other
therapies for long long time. Never change often the tracks of one therapy
or one therapist.
Stick to one design of therapy and place of therapy for long time.
Then Only it works, often changing the line of therapy does not make one
accomplish for one person anything.
We had the opinion of Ms Mary, the staff for hand occupational therapy.
She pointed out how over the last four months he had been fairing better.
Initially he could arrange 8 cups one over another and now 18 cups
Over one another with more smoothness. She suggested that for the
continuous
improvement with regards use of right hand maharaj has to have more
application in the rest of the day, like to do most of the day to day
things by himself. It could be more time taking but it would be for the most
of time by far for his benefit that he uses his right hand more often.
we had the opinion of Ms Jenny , the staff for lokomat training , who
elaborated how initially maharaj had more staggering and dragging at
the machine, low coefficient of leg function but now walking is far better.
His coefficient of leg function is far better and no dragging of the legs
on the lokomat machine. She said these could be small as compared to
what is expectation but in the matter of stroke rehabilitation are
far important improvement as these small small ones make a huge turn
of the event in the long run.
This meeting was led by dr Mark Desmond the chief therapist of High
Hopes Head Injury programme. He expressed detailed progress report
of Jayapataka maharaj in the matter of his slow and steady
advancement of what he can do now, like ability to turn and dependence on
others for walking getting lesser and lesser. To the progress profile
presented by Mark , Jayapataka maharaj agreed and said he has been very
happy
at the personal attention that Mark provides for him.
The overall consensus of the above discussion is that it would
Be definitely a long time of hard effort on behalf of Jayapataka maharaj
that he would be really, practically and safely independent. Till then
he would need closely supervised attention from his caretakers and
from his therapists. Dr Mark Desmond was once of the opinion that , in
future it would be in the best interest of Jayapataka maharaj that he
stays at his home, with all the necessary equipment for advanced form
of rehabilitation set there and under supervision of qualified
physiotherapists maharaj continues daily work out for long long time.
In between he may go for a break tour of preaching , the place well
chosen and set by for continued physiotherapy. All though the opinion
of some of well wishing and closely observing disciples may be that
Jayapataka maharaj stays here in Los Angeles for really long long time,
like till the next GBC meeting or so, which is definitely in his best
interest, the answer to the question that when Jayapataka maharaj would
return back to India or where does he go next, only time can reveal .
Apart from his rehabilitation, his other health problems are still
the same at large. Maharaj has his pending need to do the surgery for
left eye.
Although advised by all the doctors across the world for surgery ,
looking at the risk poised to the left eye cornea for damage because
of sagging lower eye lid, Jayapataka maharaj has been taking some time
to decide about it. Blood pressure more or less remains controlled with
medicines.
Sugar level is normal. Blood platelet level is low but remains steady,
around 60000 as compared to the normal level of minimum of 1.5 lakh .
The blood white cell level have been in the low normal range, recently
they have fallen little more. Liver with relation to hepatitis c
infection is more or less the same status, the viral load of hepatitis c
going up and down,and the elevated liver enzymes remaining three times high
of normal.
Jayapataka maharaj is currently on blood pressure medicines and the rest of
the medicines are many natural medicines aiming at building up liver
immunity, to clear any infection , to help build up
general body immunity, to prevent rapid aging, help retain good and
healthy heart activity, all being prescribed by dr Vijaya Vishnu ,
one of his disciples.
Hope this finds the disciples and well wishers of HH Jayapataka
maharaj with the necessary summary health information.
HARE KRISHNA.
EVER YOURS
ACHYUTANANDA DAS.