Snap, Crackle, and Pop…

Monday, April 28th — Those Rice Krispies guys have nothing on me! This was my third day on the moving table. It takes me several minutes to get arranged into the prone position; Dr. Klein has time to adjust somebody else while I’m getting there. I flop around like a fish out of water trying to lie on my face, then when I finally achieve it, I heave a huge sigh of relief. After DK messes with my back for a bit, he says, “Now flip over on your back.”  Still can’t flip.  It’s always another flop.  But I get there eventually, and then he works on the shoulders, feet, and arms/hands/fingers.

But I digress… back to the sound effects.  I could hear the snaps, crackles, and pops as he leaned on my shoulders and various parts of my back.  I guess he could hear them too, because he kept saying, “Beautiful!  Oh, that was a good one!  Lovely!”  When he was done, while I was flopping over, he said he’d gotten more cracks out of me today than ever before.

Dr. Klein is using CAM now just on the lumbar and sacral regions, as I believe I said before. Even CAM was on my side today.  There were three or four vertebrae that were clearly out of alignment on the diagram, and after getting pounded with 25 pounds of pressure, all of them were observably better aligned. I asked if I could assume that the upper parts of my spine were normalized now that they were no longer showing up on the diagram. Dr. K said no, I could not assume that; it just means that he is now adjusting those areas manually instead of with the robot.  Oh well… it was worth a try.

I’m looking forward to my second re-test on Thursday afternoon!   These re-tests are administered about every 12 or 13 sessions, to see how much progress has been made in regaining function.  Last time I had regained 26% of the expected total! I would just love it if I scored another 25% this time, but I suppose that’s unrealistic.  I’ll be happy with anything that shows some progress.

I’ll report again on Thursday. Thanks for reading — Betsy