There are many lessons to be learn from my husband's experience. A person who has poor health should always be supervised under an ayahuasca session. My husband was in denials that he had a poor health condition, but he lost several pounds in the last months, having a strict diet, free of salt, and not having the habit to drink enough water daily being in the jungle. He never took seriously the dangers to drink excess of plain water during an ayahuasca ceremony, nobody including the shaman restrained him of drinking, when calming him down. If I had been there, I would have forbidden him to take part of a ceremony in the first place, or drink a much lesser portion of what he used to drink, limit the intake of camalonga or mapacho that increase dizziness, restrain the intake of water, adding toronja or lemon juice and a pinch of salt to it (to avoid electrolyte imbalance), putting him in a recovery position (to avoid aspiration) after he fainted first time and take him immediately to the hospital. My husband has a pneumonia from infected water, ayahuasca and (for sure) camalonga.
The facts are the people present in the ceremony took my husband 12 hours later than the incident, for not taking the matter seriously from the start, so he arrived in much worse condition than he was supposed to if he had been treated immediately. He would not have arrived totally dehydrated, with an electrolyte imbalance, in a profound stupor state with breathing distress, leading to respiratory support which also increase the risks of pneumonia.
The reason this story arrived to the media is because he lacked of current identification (they had been stolen), he had just an old passport. When arriving to the hospital, he had money in his pocket and even that was stolen, he was abandoned there by those who brought him, as the victim of the Samaritan tale. Because there was no relative presents to defend him, reporters invented whatsoever, discriminating him for owning an ayahuasca center, and even filmed him in his hospital bed violating his privacy, it is a shame. I am very upset for the following controversies surrounding my husband and his property, even here in this ayahuasca forum.
My husband does not have any insurance, the center is our only income, my husband is already late with Sunat (tax, employees salary for December), his rehabilitation will be long, he is not fully lucid, has difficulty to move, talk and write so he is not able to work for a good while. As soon he is discharged from the hospital, he will be taken to Santiago, Chile, where I am in my late pregnancy of our second child.
If somebody wants to help us, lay a hand, it will be very welcomed in this very complicated economical situation, we need to pay back the people who assisted my husband in his critical moments purchasing medicine not available in the hospital, we need some money to survive during his rehabilitation, to pay bills and mortgage and Peruvian Sunat, this is the reality, The last months my husband was looking for a manager to replace him while not being there and has a big list of foreign people who wishes to do voluntary work at the center.
So please keep praying for my husband full and fast recovery, some of you can send some money if you want and can, or help at the center to keep it running. You can pm me or continue supporting the good act of Mr Shoemaker to raise funds for my husband.
Thank you
Carola
