Today, as I write these lines, it is Saturday.
On Tuesday this week, my son came to me in the morning to tell me that today — Tuesday, that is — he was going to drink lots of tea because his throat hurt very badly and he was coughing a little.
I checked his throat. Nothing particularly noticeable at first glance.
I asked him whether his tonsils hurt too. The answer came promptly: no.
And so, between two cups of tea, we tried to figure out what was going on.
According to the New German Medicine approach, a dry cough and an inflamed throat (burning when swallowing) are the result of a conflict affecting the larynx.
The larynx experiences conflicts in two situations:
A fright or a strong shock — including a pleasant surprise with an exaggerated effect ("I was left speechless").
A territorial-loss conflict ("I'm afraid I'm going to lose something").
I wrote about larynx conflicts in detail [here].
We tried to investigate the cause.
We couldn't identify any fright, and as for the territorial conflict, my son told me that a few days earlier he had been thinking about winter coming.
For us, winter means clouds and less electricity from the solar panels, which means less time spent on the laptop.
So, potentially, the conflict was about losing his laptop time.
Okaaay... we left it at that for the moment.
Until Wednesday, when other symptoms started appearing: runny nose, dizziness, and towards evening, fever and a blocked nose.
Whoa, hold on. This is no longer just about losing laptop time.
We had to dig deeper.
And while investigating together with my son, we found the cause...
Three weeks earlier, we had been to Brașov, where the boys wanted to go to an adventure park.
It was my son's first time doing the courses among the trees.
At one point, he got stuck on a course where there was no platform with bearings underneath his feet. He was literally hanging in mid-air, about 3 metres above the ground.
He also got a couple of bruises while trying to get back onto the cable. The nearest platform was about 5 metres away, in the next tree.
He managed to pull himself along the cable and get there by himself, in a state of mild panic — at least that's how it looked from the outside — and perhaps more frustration, judging by how angrily he was shouting at his dad.
He then continued the course, and the whole episode ended well.
But apparently, the conflicts had caught up with him afterwards.
I'll explain each one:
Inflamed throat and dry cough — the fright, affecting the larynx with inflammation. This lasted about three days.
Runny nose — an "smelling out" conflict. While hanging above the ground on the safety rope, my son literally "smelled out" the seriousness of the situation.
I wrote about this conflict [here], so there is no point repeating all the details. You'll find the explanation there.
Dizziness — a falling conflict. This can involve either an actual fall or an imagined one — for example, during an exam.
In his case, he was afraid he would fall from the tree.
[Here] you can find several more articles that may help explain this conflict.
It lasted one evening.
Fever — "I am in a situation I don't know how to get out of; I can't free myself; I feel in danger and I don't know how to escape."
Because the fever appeared in the evening, just before bedtime, and disappeared immediately after he fell asleep, the fever was strictly related to the stress of not being able to fall asleep because of the runny nose, rather than to the incident in the tree.
According to this interpretation, fever is the active phase of the conflict, so as soon as the source of stress is removed, the fever disappears.
Blocked nose — a completed "smelling out" conflict.
The mucus is the material eliminated from the nasal mucosa.
Productive cough — this appeared on the third day because the nose had become blocked.
According to NGM, a productive cough appears as a result of a suffocation conflict — the child was unable to breathe.
If we manage to keep the nose clear, the productive cough does not appear after the runny nose.
So far, so clear.
But let me tell you what happened next.
Last night, Friday, my son was 90% recovered. He could breathe, everything was fine.
Instead, I suddenly developed a horrible burning sensation in my throat. I could barely drink water.
It lasted until the morning and then disappeared.
A contagious virus, you might say, right?
Ha!! FALSE!
There is no such thing.
Ask any doctor to show you a real photograph of a virus and they won't be able to because they don't have one.
But let's move on...
Let me tell you what happened to me.
My conflicts were completely separate from my son's, but they affected the same organ — the larynx.
That evening, after the adventure park, my boys still hadn't had their full dose of adrenaline, so they suggested another "adventure" — this time with me included:
A sunset ride by cable car up Tâmpa, at around 900 metres.
The cable car = a flying box, made of glass from top to bottom, so you can clearly see how many metres there are between you and the rocks below.
We went up almost vertically for about two minutes.
On the way up, things were what they were. They got me quickly:
"Come on, here's the ticket, let's go, up we go, quick, put on a video..."
And just like that, we were already at the top of the mountain.
But on the way back...
I had plenty of time to examine the flying boxes going up and down next to us and form my own opinion.
At one point I was already feeling nauseous and unwell just thinking about having to go back down the same way.
The view was absolutely beautiful, but I couldn't care less.
All I wanted was to be back down on solid ground and feel safe again.
And here is the video I somehow found the courage to film anyway:
Despite everything, my son is 95% OK. He still has some slight traces of a runny nose.
I'm 98% OK. I still have a slight sore throat.
And that's about it for our adventure.
Wishing everyone good health,
Geo





