Up to 52%: My Fourth Re-Exam! Woo-Hoo!

Friday, June 27th – Last week I had my fourth re-exam, the usual go-round of DK asking me to do certain movements, then telling Emily whether to write Normal or Restricted next to whatever it was on the report. Cheng Cheng, who does the graphing and other clever techy stuff, was away in New York all week. So I had to wait till a couple of days ago to get that graph I was so eagerly awaiting.

Maybe you remember that last time I was warned by Dr. Klein that “most of the easy stuff has been taken care of; now we’ll be working on what’s harder to get at, and you may not make such sharp progress from here on in. Your graph may level out in the next couple of months.” Not if I have anything to do with it , said I silently to myself. No leveling off allowed: only upward progress, even if not so quickly. I won’t have anything else.

And when I saw the graph, finally, just yesterday — woo-hoo! Another upward climb! I am up to 52% of the possible improvements from where I started on March 5th! If I could have jumped up and down, I would have. As it was, I just sort of wiggled vertically a little bit.

Thanks so much to David Klein for putting the graph into this blog, so you can see what I mean. I found it incredibly encouraging, especially since those ten days in Toronto without chiropractic or yoga made me feel as though I had been set back a bit. I was prepared for little, if any, improvement, I suppose. But maybe not, because I keep telling myself the story of how I am able to do this, and this, and the other thing, that I haven’t been able to manage for years. I keep telling myself the story of how I am just a tiny bit away from normal…

Actually, Dr Klein said my spine looks “almost normal” now, so I guess my body is listening to me telling myself that story.

When I got on the table, there were lots of good snaps and crackles all the way down; and when he “cracked my neck,” as the expression goes — WOW! Apparently the very top cervical vertebra, which had not moved at all in four months, was ready to dance with glee at my chart results. With my head turned to the right — SNAP! And with my head turned to the left — CRACK! Dr. Klein and I said at the same moment, “Wow! Did you hear that?”

I am in a mighty good mood, moving on toward Independence Day, even if I find myself sitting in front of my computer way too many hours a day. My beloved spouse is alive and kicking, I am getting towards Normal, my 28-year-old cat Amy has neither diabetes nor thyroid disease nor kidney disease, my 9-year-old cat Chloe is The Cat Who Walks By Herself, it has been a beautiful day… what more could I ask!

Thanks for reading — Betsy

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