June 20, 2005

• On Thursday, I went to a naturopathic chiropractor.

  She was fascinated by my medical history, so we spent two hours talking about it. There was a huge crowd of people in the waiting room, too. It was kind of funny.

  Finally, she put me on a massage table and, with only minimal warning or preface, started sticking me with needles. I’ve never had acupuncture before, and I’m here to tell you that it works. Whatever it is, it works. I could feel the muscles in my back relax into non-existence. I also felt a bunch of psychic stuff (for lack of a better word), but sometimes talking about that kind of thing is a liability. But still: Those muscles slacked right up.

  Nevertheless, my troublesome abdominal muscles were still working against her when she did the adjustments. She said, “You’ve got some really tight muscles there, my friend…” I wanted to say, “Yeah, I told you,” but I was still getting over the adjustments. I might have said something like, “Uhng,” instead.

  I’ve felt a lot better lately, too. I noticed almost instantaneous improvement, which has declined gradually and steadily.

  I’m set to go back on Tuesday. Hopefully this time she’ll stick needles in the magic places that will make my abdominal muscles go limp as well. Then on Wednesday, I’ll begin the process of sitting in a car driving for three days.

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