{originally written September 7, 2007 - Friday}
Hi & welcome, this is my first EVER blog entry. I have two friends who blog. This is new territory for me. I don't surf blogs either. Why am I doing this?
Today I decided to leave work early and go see my trusted acupuncturist. I have this numbness at the nape of my neck... :(
First he lets me relax, supine position, on this flat bed. It has heated rollers that travel slowly up and down the spine. The rollers stop along each section of my spine (~ 8 times), pressing and lingering for a while, then proceed to go "round the world" a couple time, before continuing to its next stop on the spine. All the while, various and delicate Chinese music plays softly. :)
After about 20-30 minutes - who's counting? - I move to a massage table prone position, face down. He's now working on my neck. I lost count, but let's say "8", for good luck. He put 8 needles in a several inch radius. I never felt a thing. He placed two vacuum cups in the center - each a couple inches in diameter. He has a sort of tool/gun - looks a little like a caulking gun - that he squeezes to suck the air out of the cup. Then he attached electrodes to the needles and some sort of heat to the cups, in order to vibrate and stimulate my nerves. Again, my problem was numbness in my neck, so he kept jacking up the power because I could not feel anything. Seems I went about 4X thresholds he was expecting - up to the Frankenstein setting - before I flinched. Then he let me go overtime. His final touch was hand massage to the neck area. :) There are residual "hickeys" from the suction cups.
He wants me to sit up straight while sitting. From now on I should really be sitting on my Swooper Stool for computer work.
Records show it was over 1 &1/2 years since my last visit. I felt so bad. My co-payment is only $15 (and he tried to give me a discount on that!), and my insurance covers the rest. Ah, why don't I go more often??
He is [known as] the "Happy Doctor" (with the Santa Claus eyes). No matter what you go in for, you leave with this incredible exhilarating high and a case of the giggles for several more hours. Don't let anything spoil it.
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