Have you ever wondered how I can stand being needled sometimes?
Or perhaps you think I have a prickly personality?
Need more proof that I have thick skin?
OK, enough with the puns.
This is my third acupuncture treatment for Bell's palsy. I'm an old hand at acupuncture and have utilized it for more than 10 years now.
An acupuncture treatment always leaves me feeling much better. It is great for reducing my stress.
I call acupuncture "enforced meditation". It helps those of us who find it difficult to remain still and quiet long enough to calm our minds if there are a dozen or so needles stuck in us.
It is disconcerting for me to see my left eye roll up until only the white is showing. From my point of view, both eyes are closed. I don't realize that I'm not blinking or closing my left eye.
My acupuncturist is Chris Powell, of Boulevard Yoga and Healing Arts (formerly Missouri Acupuncture). Chris has helped me through some rough spots over the years.
Thanks man!
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A student intern at the clinic did the camera work. Steady hands, eh? My camera only shoots 30 seconds of video at a time, so it was a bit choppy. It didn't show the part where he hooked me up to electricity. Seriously. That was new for me, but it makes sense to try to stimulate that damned nerve.
Hey! That could be my next post: Swingin' from my last nerve.
I think "Swingin' from my Last Nerve" has a nice ring to it . . .
I am optimistic and determined to overcome this as quickly as possible and I want to be able to document it as it happens.
Isn't that what youtube and OS are for?
It's too bad that, by and large, the western world doesn't recognize the efficacy and beneficial effects of this thousands of years old modality.
When I lived in Casablanca as a room-mate of the best female basketball player I ever knew, She started to pull up lame. When Christmas time came, She returned to her hometown of Chicago. Her Irish family had lived in Chicago for decades and was well-connected, so She had access to the finest medical opinions available there.
They all agreed that Her sciatic nerve condition was incurable and She'd soon be unable to ever walk again without aid. Ann was not one to give in easily. When She returned to Casablanca, amazingly, She found a small group of Chinese acupuncturists working for free deep down in the southern tip of Morocco.
She visited them for six consecutive weeks and never had a problem again.
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