Waaaaaaay Behind!

Saturday, November 15th — Omigosh, I can’t believe it has been six weeks since I last posted! Shame on me! I beg your forgiveness…

Now I need to catch up on the results of my October re-exam at Seaside Chiropractic. Yes, alas, progress is slowing down perceptibly. I did realize this would happen, Dr. Klein warned me back in March that rapid improvement would occur mostly at the beginning of treatment… but it’s one thing to know it intellectually, and quite another to look at the graph and see that the line is only a teeny bit away from straight across. At least I haven’t started regressing. Let’s be grateful for small mercies.

So: In early October, some “objective findings” had resolved themselves. My “Lumbar range of motion lateral flexion right” is now okay (I think that’s the one where I bend over as far as I can to the right side). The left leg is still half an inch shorter than the right one. And on the date of the re-exam (October 8), the hip bones (ilium bones) have evened themselves out, so that they are no longer slightly twisted to front and back, but sit neatly and properly straight.

I seem to have skipped altogether a re-exam in September. The previous one was on August 27. At that time, I had reclaimed 66.7% of the things that were objectively wrong with my alignment. As of October 10, I’m up to 72%. As I said before, it’s a very small gain… but I’m still moving ahead. Onward and upward!

During my unexplained and inexplicable hiatus from blogging,  one thing that happened was that Rosanna and Dr. Klein and I sat down and figured out where we go from here. We had originally thought, when my treatment program at Seaside Chiropractic began last March, that in about six months I’d be as “fixed” as I could be. At that point I would begin “Maintenance Care,” or one visit a week. Hey, I am not ready to declare that no more correction is possible! No way! Ni modo! So we have renegotiated, and I will be spending six more months in “Corrective Care,” three visits a week. And then we’ll see.  If at some point during the six months my graph fails to show improvement for three months in a row, then I will reluctantly agree to start Maintenance Care.

But so far, I’m still creeping up. So I’m on for another six months. Let’s see where I can get to by February. I don’t expect to be playing tennis or doing gymnastics ever again — but actually, I never did play tennis, and yoga is about as close as I ever got to gymnastics. I will be satisfied with walking normally, instead of gimpily; and having enough flexibility in my shoulders and arms so that I can reach straight up over my head without a lot of pain. I can stand SOME pain along with that goal, just not a lot.

I don’t suppose putting “a new body” on my list for Santa Claus will do the trick… no, I will stick with Dr. Klein instead.

Thanks for reading — Betsy