Honoring My Friend Who Was Taken Away Too Soon

Pictured: My college friends, Sunil is on the left and I am on the right.

Every May 1, I always think of my college friend, Sunil Rajan, who died on his birthday May 1, several years ago.

In college, I had a really bad seizure. I had a history of seizures since I was 13 years old. It was so scary. Because I had a really bad seizure in college, I had to stay up all night and then go to the hospital to see if they could stimulate it with strobe lights to see if I had epilepsy. Sunil was one of a few friends who came to my apartment and stayed up all night with me and because I wasn’t allowed to sleep a wink, he didn’t sleep a wink either.

He was a good friend. He had compassion for me.

Later after college, by chance we met again and continued our friendship. Shortly after that, he fell from a ladder while at work and had a grand mal seizure and had to be rushed to the hospital. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Still, he continued to work and go on tours. When he would tour to Connecticut, I would go to the show and then afterwords go to his hotel and give him a Reiki/shamanism treatment for his brain tumor.

But the doctors couldn’t get the tumor to shrink, so they did brain surgery to remove the tumor. After his surgery, I met him at the hospital in New York City and gave him a two hour Reiki/shamanism treatment to help him to manage the pain of having his head stapled and to feel relaxed.

I guess we were both good friends.

I wish Sunil had known to look at his tumor holistically, to understand the root cause and stop his exposure to whatever caused his tumor to grow. If he had eliminated what caused his tumor and was making it grow, he would be alive today. He had been open to energy work. He knew how much better he felt with a treatment. But his doctors never questioned the cause of his tumor, they only treated the tumor.

Every illness and chronic condition has a root cause; once the root cause is addressed and is treated from that angle, healing can happen quickly with lasting results. But if the root cause is not addressed and is treated with medication or surgery, the condition can return.

Even with the brain surgery, the tumor grew back and it was continuing to cause seizures. Even though the tumor was not malignant, they put him through heavy rounds of chemotherapy to shrink the tumor. Unfortunately, the chemotherapy killed him. It depleted all the energy and vitality out of his system to try to shrink a tumor, a benign tumor, that pressed on an area of his brain causing seizures.

Makes me think that medication is not as safe as we assume it to be. Chemotherapy is incredibly toxic. To die from a medication instead of an illness, is a tragedy.

Every May 1, May Day, I think about you, Sunil, and how your life was taken away from you before you reached 40, at only 36 years of age. Thank you for being a good friend! Thank you for being a light in my world. I appreciate you.

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