Up to 55% — Again

Thursday, May 6th — I had another re-exam last week. I never go into these things with much enthusiasm any more, partly because I know I’m going to hear “restricted,” “restricted,” “restricted,” again and again as DK asks me to make various movements. And the other reason a re-exam is not my favorite way to pass a half-hour is that the progress is So Freakin’ SLOW!

Yeah, yeah, I know it’s not reasonable to expect the dramatic upward slope of the graph that I saw in the early months of my treatment. But that was two years ago now, and I am getting just the teeniest bit impatient.

So the graph shows that 55% of the things that were observably and objectively wrong with me, chiropractically speaking, have now been rectified. That’s not too discouraging, until I look back… and back… and back at my blogs, and discover that the last time I was this low was in August 2008, at which time I was deliriously happy about having achieved 52%. Ah, how things do change.

I suppose I ought to take into account the fact that as some things improve, other things go out of whack, so to speak; so the areas of restriction now may not necessarily be the areas that were restricted two years ago. But nevertheless, I look at the graph, and I can’t help feeling a bit sad. So much for my bravely declared goal of walking without a cane and in a non-gimpy fashion by the end of 2008! The Cane and I are still daily companions, and I am still a Gimp.

All I can say at this point is — onward and upward! I intend to keep pursuing the elusive goal of 90%, as long as it takes me to achieve it.

Thanks for reading (sigh) — Betsy