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Ferdinand Westra
Cancer patient UMCG
I have metastatic prostate cancer and have been treated. My prognosis now is terminal, palliative phase. I regularly have a lot of pain. I have a bone metastasis at L2-L4 I believe, and a nerve cord to my right leg is getting pinched because of it. I am now under control with a pump with morphine, but the constant morphine dose is very unfavorable for my bowel function. So it is also very important to me to be able to reduce that pain relief…
I was immediately excited when I heard about VRelax. I have regularly tried the glasses. For me, especially swimming with the dolphins was extremely relaxing. And relaxation is relaxing for me again. I am currently doing a bit better thanks to VRelax, although I cannot say for sure that this is entirely due to these glasses. I do have the feeling that it can work well with short and severe pain stimuli. In recent years I have undergone several extremely painful procedures. The most painful were the application of a nephrostomy (renal ostomy), two tubes from your back to the kidneys, where the kidneys themselves cannot be anaesthetized. Fortunately I am rid of that stoma again, but I am still afraid that this procedure will have to be repeated.
Another painful experience was a camera examination of my bladder at a time when that entire area was inflamed and cramped with a lot of tumor growth. It was terrible…while normally I can handle this examination well. I am convinced that VRelax is a blessing in such procedures. I am deeply convinced of the power of neuroplasticity, and from my experience the effect of VRelax in pain relief also lies in this area.
I can feel that as long as I am at home I remain well balanced and that meditation and mental practice is effective in managing the pain, in addition to the morphine. I would experience that differently during a hospital stay… Then the VRelax glasses also help to be in a healing environment for a while, which is certainly not a hospital for me. Fortunately, my home is a healing environment, but that is not the case for everyone. Meditation (not becoming the pain) is also part of my rehab. And I notice that the VRelax glasses add an extra dimension; I feel, as it were, less 'alone' in the experience of the VRelax glasses, you are taken from the outside in an experience, while you have to get meditation out of yourself.
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