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ROGUE HYPNOTISTS INVADE SPRINGFIELD

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Captured on a nearby surveillance video camera
Here we see hypnotist Roch Simpson cruising for clients and for some DUFF beer at the Qwik-e-mart

All I can say is this Convention was a roller coaster ride for me. The story actually starts on the Sunday before the Convention when I was doing yard work and picked up a nasty case of Poison Ivy. Well, I did what you are supposed to do but it still got progressively worse. There is a reason for that; I guess it is because I have not been taking very good care of myself physically or spiritually lately. I did take a big step and finally gave up smoking for good over a month ago, but my weight has risen, and frankly, I have not even tried to do much about that. More importantly, I am supposed to have certain blood levels checked regularly and I neglected to do that for at least a couple of months. Don't ask me why I have no excuses.

Anyway, I went to the convention, but I went very itchy. I expected to have a great time even though, to be honest, I was worried about the seminar (my first) that I was going to give on Sunday morning. There were many times when I seriously considered backing out. Any of you who know me know that I am not afraid of public speaking in the slightest way. Sill, I just had a nagging feeling like I was not going to be able to deliver the goods.

I had made arrangements to meet with many of my friends at the Hotel Bar on Thursday night. I went back to my room to change and the poison ivy on my leg looked infected. I decided to go to the emergency room. I figured that they would give me something and that would be that.
When I got there they told me that the wait was going to be several hours and I would be missing the get together with my friends that I had been looking forward to. So I did the "smart" thing and left. I told myself that I would meet my friends and go back to the ER afterward but that didn't happen.

On Friday, during the day I went to my morning seminars, and when people saw my badge, they would ask me what I was talking about. Many of them said they were excited by my subject and finally I started to feel excited about it too. I also had maybe a dozen people recognize me from last year's stage shows and that felt great. Later in the afternoon, I went back to my room again to change for the evening's activities. When I undressed, I could not help but see how much worse it had become. I had no choice this time and went directly to the ER. When I got there I had to wait a very long time to be seen, and then when I gave them my medical history they needed to draw the blood and do the tests that I had been neglecting to do and so I was going to miss the stage shows no matter what.

The bottom line is that the Poison Ivy was the very least of my problems. I had allowed my blood to become very dangerously thin. They admitted me and told me I was going to be there for a few days....A FEW DAYS!!!!??? This was my vacation, my convention, I was going to see friends that I had been looking forward to seeing for a year and thinking about of all the new ones that I was going to make! I was looking forward to it all...well except I guess that presentation I was supposed to give. Enter the Law of Attraction! I had set myself up and the universe gave me what I wanted even though I didn't want it that way.

So here I am, a couple hundred miles away from home in the hospital. I did not think to bring any of my stuff with me. I had my cell, but the battery was just about gone. I made a call home and to a couple of my friends while the phone worked. Then I just sat in the bed being miserable. That is until the phone calls to my room started coming in. My friends began to call and offer me encouragement. Some of them managed to track me down on their own. They offered to bring my stuff, get me checked out of the hotel so I would not waste money. They told the appropriate NGH Staff what my predicament was because it did not look like I was going to be able to do my seminar. All of my friends were sending me tons positive healing energy either doing remote EFT, Reiki or Pranic healing or just encouraging me to be more positive.

Then the visits started. I was so happy to have the encouragement and company. We talked about what they were doing and I felt as if I was still there. Then all of us began doing EFT on me to get my blood levels down. It was me and three of my friends doing it all at the same time. About that time the nurses came in to tell me some bad news. The nurses were there to take more blood because the samples came back with "unreliable" results. They were still too high. But they had to be redone anyway. The numbers came in 7.3 and the lowest reading was 5.4,
I had begged them to take another sample in the late afternoon on the chance that my levels would be low enough to make the banquet and also do my seminar on Sunday morning. The doctor was doubtful that I would be making it but he agreed to do it anyway. One of the nurses was asking us what the heck we were doing and looked at us like we were crazy. The other was just watching. She told us that it just was not going to happen and took that sample. I had an hour and if it was not close to level 4, I was not going home that night. She just said to forget it. She had never seen levels drop that quickly. It was about 5 o'clock in the evening.
At 5:45 the second nurse who had been watching, came back in and said "you didn't hear this from me, we are not supposed to tell you anything but.....4.2! You made it you are going home. I have never seen this happen before! All of us shouted and I was just so happy I could not believe it. She left and then the charge nurse came in to tell me officially. That the doctor was drawing up the discharge papers. Wow it was amazing. And maybe a little bit of a miracle.

But the story does not quite end there. After the charge nurse left that lab nurse came back in very quietly and asked "Does that stuff work on anxiety?" I asked her if she wanted to talk and she did. To make a long story just a little bit shorter I ended up Doing EFT on her and she left feeling much better, along with a business card belonging to one of my hypnotist friends who lives in the area. How cool is that?

They sprung me at 6 and I made it to the banquet by 7:30. My presentation on Sunday morning went very well and in the end, I learned a lot of important lessons. The most important one was about me being responsible for taking better care of myself. I promise to do this now. You'll all see a much healthier Roch next year!

I want to thank so many people by name for their help and support. You are all great hypnotist and healing spirits. If I have forgotten anyone please forgive me:
Stephanie Dalfonzo for keeping my spirits up when I was at my lowest!
Cynthia St Louis for physically tracking me down once the battery died!
Kathleen Peters for wisdom, kindness, love, and support!
Jerry Valley for making me laugh in the hospital!
Beth O'Connor for all the encouragement in the face of bad news!
Mona Santl for being there for me and dancing slow!
Wendy Webber for sending love and just knowing how to!
Deborah and Marty Yaffee for lots of positive healing energy!
Lucinda Flint for just being joy just to be around!
Pearlan Feeney-Grater for laughter!
Tracy Holwager for her loving friendship
Phillip Vaillancourt for being my coolest friend and supporting me at 8 AM!
Bob Brenner for hypnotizing me on Thursday afternoon to help stop the itch.
Morrin Bass for being the best teacher and a great friend!
Special thanks to Lisa Halpin for stepping up to the plate for me when the chips were down and coming through like the friend she is!
Elsom Eldridge for taking it apart and then putting it all back together at the last minute!

Life truly is what you make it!

Roch

Hello, I am Roch Preite, a NGH Board Certified Hypnotist practicing on Long Island in New York.

I am open to meeting new hypnotist friends and discussing our profession,