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A Pain in the Neck - literally
Jun. 9th, 2004 10:21 amI almost forgot about my chiro appointment last night cuz I hadn't written it down.
And I'd had a nagging headache for days with varying degrees of intensity. It was then at a dull ache and I almost put off the chiro as I have much to do these days.
I'm glad I didn't. First off, I lurv the little electronic muscle-jumpy machine. I get about 20 minutes on a comfortable couch while my muscles get more and more jellified. Last night, I also caught a little nap. I don't think I drooled.
And he made my lower back go thunk in such an extreme manner that my eyes widened. Hadn't even noticed that, but I noticed that it was better!
And he moved on to my neck and said, in a surprised and oddly gratified tone..."Aha!" And then he made my neck make all sorts of percussive noises and I think I saw a brief flash of light and heard angel choirs.
Apparently the base of my skull was not resting on the spine properly. You always knew it - my head isn't screwed on properly. He commented that it doesn't happen often, apparently is fairly rare. I replied, "leave it to me." C'mon, I'm the girl that threw her neck out washing her hair in the shower.
I think I'm one of his favorite patients. I am easy to manipulate (in a chiropractic sense) and make satisfying crunchy noises. I also do weird shit to myself that results in fun problems for him to solve, apparently.
Oh - the headache is gone. Yay!
And I'd had a nagging headache for days with varying degrees of intensity. It was then at a dull ache and I almost put off the chiro as I have much to do these days.
I'm glad I didn't. First off, I lurv the little electronic muscle-jumpy machine. I get about 20 minutes on a comfortable couch while my muscles get more and more jellified. Last night, I also caught a little nap. I don't think I drooled.
And he made my lower back go thunk in such an extreme manner that my eyes widened. Hadn't even noticed that, but I noticed that it was better!
And he moved on to my neck and said, in a surprised and oddly gratified tone..."Aha!" And then he made my neck make all sorts of percussive noises and I think I saw a brief flash of light and heard angel choirs.
Apparently the base of my skull was not resting on the spine properly. You always knew it - my head isn't screwed on properly. He commented that it doesn't happen often, apparently is fairly rare. I replied, "leave it to me." C'mon, I'm the girl that threw her neck out washing her hair in the shower.
I think I'm one of his favorite patients. I am easy to manipulate (in a chiropractic sense) and make satisfying crunchy noises. I also do weird shit to myself that results in fun problems for him to solve, apparently.
Oh - the headache is gone. Yay!
