Tales from the Chiro

Magnus always makes fun of me because I'm jumpy. I'm the one that will jump when someone speaks suddenly, or appears out of nowhere, or I see a particularly nasty spider. So you can imagine what happened when I go to the chiropractor today and got my first adjustment. Yes, folks, I jumped a foot off the table and screamed out loud. Twice. That's when he decided to try it a different way.. rofl. It was really embarrasing.

Anyway. He spent a long while going over x-rays and explaining how a neck is supposed to look and work. A proper neck is curved. In an accident, your neck snaps backwards and then returns, but the curve doesn't. (At least, if there's a neck injury.) My neck happens to be straight and/or curved in the wrong direction, with the gaps between the thingies all wrong, as a result. Descriptive, eh? And furthermore, it's all crooked. Pardon my description, but I don't remember all the terms and no one cares anyway. It was really very cool, because he pointed to each gap and explained what nerves were located there and what it would cause.

So. Not only did he tell me during the last visit that I have headaches, he told me today where they started and where they ended up (behind my eyes, often on the right side), asked me about how often I wake up with numb hands (5 nights out of 7, probably). He also described the way my shoulders feel all tense and burning at the end of the day, and furthermore, that my thyroid is being pinched (or something), which would explain why I'm often tired. Magnus will definitely agree with that.. I'm the sleepiest person he's ever met! And there was another thing or two that he pointed out.. it was all pretty neat. He seems to think that my big accident was when I was around 14, though, and I can't think of anything spectacular that happened to me then. I had a wreck when I was 17, but he insists that he's never more than two years off. *grin* I dunno.. people fall and stuff all the time and just don't remember it.

One of my legs is longer than the other, my neck is definitely messed up, my spine is very slightly crooked and my back is curved a bit too much. And I've got to stop sitting on my foot. But he said that it shouldn't take long to heal my pain, and if I did the exercises correctly, it'd be all fixed in a year.. but if I don't, then I'll be back in two years with the same problem. I'll be going twice a week for a while (he said probably not long) and then once a week until all pain is gone, then once a month after that. He was extremely optimistic about fixing me.. he kept saying, "How old are you? 24? You're just a baby!" *giggle*

As for the adjustments.. other than the jumpiness, it wasn't too bad. The thing he did to my shoulder really hurt, but it doesn't hurt now or anything. I did NOT like the popping neck thing.. it's scary, but it didn't hurt. I also wasn't too thrilled with how he was talking about the risks of stroke from adjustments, particularly among people who take birth control pills. Hello?! Tell me this before I lay down, dammit! Anyway. I'll probably stop writing such detailed reports now, since this was the last of the long visits and from now on, it'll be just adjustments and no long explanations.

In other news, our desks arrived today. They're extremely heavy, and I gues we'll put them together tonight, if possible. I need to clear off the current desks in preparation so when M gets home, it'll be as painless as possible.

Impatient.

Magnus is still at the doctor's office. His appointment was 5:30, so it's been almost two hours. I'm not really surprised. They told me on the phone the first visit for a new patient would probably take an hour; I was there for two. I was certainly hoping that he'd be quicker, though, since it's the end of the day. A quarter says that he's taking a long time because he started talking to Dr. Bob and they're just babbling away.. M is surpringly charismatic to be married to such an antisocial girl. :) Anyway, we have two desks to put together and two desks to dismantle and cart out to the shop. I'm fearing that it won't all get done tonight, and that very much sucks, as I've cleaned out both desks and there are stacks of things all around the room. The only things left are computer-related. And a lamp.

It looks really funny in here, even besides the clutter. This is admittedly tacky, and it sounds even worse when I try to describe it, but.. we had covered two walls with pale yellow sheets. The other two walls are taken up by windows and closet. We have dark brown paneling, and we don't want to paint it. (Long story involving the purchasing of this place, a new road and the plan to sell it back to the parents when we move.) We started noticing that we weren't getting anything done in this room because the great brown walls and cluttered room drained all our energy, so we improvised with the cheap sheets. Anyway, with our current desks, it was all fine because they take up so much of the room themselves. The new desks are much much MUCH more open than these, so it would have looked horrible. (Not just tacky, but bad, too!) We've gotten rid of much of the clutter, and the new desks are lighter in color and design, so we're hoping that the brownness of it all won't be a problem anymore. It's been so long since I've seen the walls that it actually looks rather nice for a change.

Also need to think of something for dinner.. I really don't feel like cooking. I don't necessarily feel like working on desks, either, but I want it done. My back is aching a little.. I have to work tomorrow so I hope that it goes away soon. Guess I should go find something more productive than griping to do. ;)