I met Juan Carlos and Cynthia at the Lima Phowa in 2002 with Lama Ole at El Remanso in Chosica. They were a young couple, both dentists, who had made contact with Lama Ole when they attended a lecture on “Conscious Dying” in year 2,000. I am a friend of Ana , the mother of Juan Carlos , and she later told me they had left Peru to go live in the United States. After getting married here in a Buddhist ceremony, they went there to work.
As any young couple, they had many things they wanted to do: travel, go to Buddhist courses, develop professionally, and at the very end stood the possibility of having children. They wanted to, but they grew enthusiastic and then lost interest. In June 2005, Lama Ole went to Connecticut where they lived. They approached him and told him they wanted to have a child, and asked him for a blessing. He hugged them as he always did and placed his Gau on Cynthia’s belly while he blessed them both for a period longer than usual. Later they decided to postpone having a baby and forgot about the matter. They thought “…it will be better after this trip” or “…better after my birthday” and time went by.
The next year they traveled to Lima for Phowa in January 2006. They had again decided it was the right time for having a baby and they would start trying on their return to U.S.A. They asked Lama Ole again for a blessing and he lovingly gave it. Some time later they got discouraged and forgot about having children.
In May 2007 Cynthia got sick. She had Flu symptoms: joint and muscular pain and slight fever. They ran her some tests including pregnancy (both blood and urine) and all came our negative. They told her it was probably a virus. After like three weeks of feeling sick they ran some other tests. Juan Carlos told Cynthia that it was clear to him, and he did not remember whether he had dreamt it or thought about it, but he had the feeling she was pregnant. As soon as Cynthia came back from work she made a test she had bought in the pharmacy on her way home. It came out positive.
The next day her lab results were ready and they congratulated her; but they had found high levels in her blood of a hormone which appear when the embryo does not adhere correctly to the placenta (and miscarries) or when there was a multiple pregnancy. These were too many different emotions for Cynthia: first she was told it was a virus, then that she was pregnant and finally that she could miscarry!She was sad and Juan Carlos tried to cheer her up telling her he was sure they were twins. While they they ran the test both watched the monitor.They had notions of radiology and they could see there were two embryo.Then the doctor told them with a smile: this is baby A and this is baby B.Both were stunned but thrilled.
In November when Cynthia was seven months pregnant, both went to San Francisco to a course with Lama Ole. As soon as they saw him they greeted him and Cynthia complained in jest that it was his fault they were having two babies because he had blessed them twice: once in Connecticut and the other in Lima. Lama Ole laughed heartily and told them if this was true one baby would be white and the other darker skinned. Emma and Brisa Salazar were born on January 14th 2008.
As soon as they were born it was clear they were not identical twins not only because of their features, but because of the color of their skin. Emma, who doctors say was conceived first is fair skinned, and Brisa is rather tan. They are two beautiful little girls who one day will know they are the result of two blessings of Lama Ole.
The next year they traveled to Lima for Phowa in January 2006. They had again decided it was the right time for having a baby and they would start trying on their return to U.S.A. They asked Lama Ole again for a blessing and he lovingly gave it. Some time later they got discouraged and forgot about having children.
In May 2007 Cynthia got sick. She had Flu symptoms: joint and muscular pain and slight fever. They ran her some tests including pregnancy (both blood and urine) and all came our negative. They told her it was probably a virus. After like three weeks of feeling sick they ran some other tests. Juan Carlos told Cynthia that it was clear to him, and he did not remember whether he had dreamt it or thought about it, but he had the feeling she was pregnant. As soon as Cynthia came back from work she made a test she had bought in the pharmacy on her way home. It came out positive.
The next day her lab results were ready and they congratulated her; but they had found high levels in her blood of a hormone which appear when the embryo does not adhere correctly to the placenta (and miscarries) or when there was a multiple pregnancy. These were too many different emotions for Cynthia: first she was told it was a virus, then that she was pregnant and finally that she could miscarry!She was sad and Juan Carlos tried to cheer her up telling her he was sure they were twins. While they they ran the test both watched the monitor.They had notions of radiology and they could see there were two embryo.Then the doctor told them with a smile: this is baby A and this is baby B.Both were stunned but thrilled.
In November when Cynthia was seven months pregnant, both went to San Francisco to a course with Lama Ole. As soon as they saw him they greeted him and Cynthia complained in jest that it was his fault they were having two babies because he had blessed them twice: once in Connecticut and the other in Lima. Lama Ole laughed heartily and told them if this was true one baby would be white and the other darker skinned. Emma and Brisa Salazar were born on January 14th 2008.
As soon as they were born it was clear they were not identical twins not only because of their features, but because of the color of their skin. Emma, who doctors say was conceived first is fair skinned, and Brisa is rather tan. They are two beautiful little girls who one day will know they are the result of two blessings of Lama Ole.
Conocí a Juan Carlos y a
Cynthia en el Phowa en Lima del 2002 de
Lama Ole en el Remanso, en Chosica. Eran una joven pareja, ambos dentistas, que
habían tomado contacto con las enseñanzas cuando asistieron a una charla de
Lama Ole sobre “La muerte Consciente” en el año 2,000. Yo tenía amistad con Ana, la
madre de Juan Carlos, y por ella me enteré que partieron a vivir a Estados
Unidos. Luego de casarse en una ceremonia Budista en Lima se fueron a trabajar
allá.
Como toda pareja joven tenían
muchas cosas que querían hacer: viajar, ir a cursos de Budismo, desarrollarse
en su trabajo y muy al final estaba la posibilidad de tener hijos. Querían
tenerlos, pero se animaban y se desanimaban. En junio de 2005 Lama Ole fue a
Connecticut donde ellos residían. Ellos se acercaron y le contaron que querían
tener un hijo y le pidieron una bendición para ello. El los abrazó como siempre
lo hacía y colocó su Gau (relicario) en el vientre de Cynthia mientras los
bendecía a ambos por un período más largo de lo usual. Después de eso
decidieron posponer lo del hijo y se olvidaron del tema. Pensaban: “mejor
después de este viaje”, o “después de mi cumpleaños” y pasó el tiempo.
Al año siguiente fueron a
Lima para el Phowa en enero del 2006. Nuevamente habían decidido que ya era el
momento de tener un hijo y que empezarían a intentarlo a su regreso a U.S.A.
Nuevamente le pidieron una bendición y Lama Ole se las dio. Poco después se
volvieron a arrepentir y se olvidaron de los hijos.
En mayo del 2007 Cynthia se
enfermó. Tenía síntomas de gripe: dolor muscular y de articulaciones y fiebre
leve. Le hicieron varias pruebas incluyendo la de embarazo (de orina y de
sangre) y todo salió negativo.
Le dijeron que posiblemente
era un virus. Después de como tres semanas de no mejorar le hicieron otras
pruebas. Juan Carlos le dijo a Cynthia que para él todo estaba muy claro y que
no recordaba si lo había pensado o soñado, pero que sentía que ella estaba
embarazada. Cynthia ni bien llegó a casa después del trabajo se hizo uno de
esos tests que se compran en la farmacia y le salió positivo. Al día siguiente
salieron los resultados de los análisis y le dijeron “felicitaciones”, pero que
había una hormona que estaba volando y que había que hacerle un ultrasonido de
emergencia al día siguiente. Era una hormona que mostraba niveles altos cuando
el embrión no se adhería a la placenta (y se perdía), o cuando había embarazo
múltiple.
Eran muchas emociones para
Cynthia: primero le dijeron que era un virus, luego que estaba embarazada y
finalmente que podía perder el bebé.
Ella estaba triste y Juan
Carlos la consolaba diciéndole que seguro que eran dos. Mientras le hacían el
ultrasonido ambos observaron el monitor. Ellos entendían algo de radiología y
allí había dos sacos. La técnico-radióloga no dijo nada y se fue a llamar al
doctor. El doctor vino y les dijo sonriente: “este es el bebé A, y este es el
bebé B...”. Ambos estaban atónitos pero encantados.
En noviembre cuando Cynthia
tenía siete meses de embarazo fueron a San Francisco a un curso con Lama Ole.
Ni bien el entró al auditorio lo saludaron y Cynthia le reclamó en tono de
broma que era por su culpa que tendrían
dos bebés, porque él los había bendecido dos veces: una en Connecticut y otra
en Lima. Lama Ole soltó una carcajada y con el mismo humor contestó que si eso
era cierto entonces una sería muy blanca y la otra morenita.
Emma y Brisa nacieron el 14
de enero del 2008. Desde que nacieron fue obvio que no eran idénticas, no solo
por los rasgos faciales, sino por el color de la piel. Emma, quien dicen los
doctores que fue concebida primero, es de piel muy blanca, y Brisa es más bien
morenita. Son dos lindas niñas que algún día sabrán que son el fruto de las dos
bendiciones de Lama Ole.
Dicen que hay que pensar bien
antes de pedir algo porque podemos obtenerlo. También sucede lo mismo si se pide dos veces.
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