Thursday, November 12, 2009

Song and some back woes

For those that say I haven't written in a while. A big blog is coming up sometime... I'm not sure when... but its coming. Have to write about my island trip and Halloween! Lots of photos.


Fools in Love by Inara George.

I smile cus I mess up... but since you can't even hear the guitar it doesn't much matter hmmm? I bought this external mike so you wouldn't hear all the computer buzzing and I thought it was working but now the buzzing is still there. Oh well, on with the song!





Ok I'll write a bit since the video is taking forever to load...


So I've been having some back issues. I went to an acupuncturist for the first time. Which is a big deal for those of you that know me. I'm scared of needles. It wasn't so bad. I bit my lip for the first 2 and then the rest just kind of pinched a little as I imagined myself floating on that infamous air mattress down on the river... ahhh. But before all that I just layed on this hot bed for a while with suction cups going at my back. The one on my arm tickled and I was just laughing by myself in my little curtain room. I went 3 times and after no improvement decided to try something else.

So off to the orthopedic doctor. Some x-rays and telling him my symptoms and well... he thinks its my neck. I happen to disagree, especially since he didn't even bother to x-ray where my back is hurting because he ALREADY decided it was my neck. He told me to stretch and exercise and prescribed me some pain killers and muscle relaxers (chill out parents its only for 3 days and to be honest I don't feel any different after taking them, perhaps they are sugar...) and phsyical therapy. I did one session and decided it was all bullox. More hot beds only this one had these poundy thingies that shook me up and they put these air boots on my feet to squeeze them up real good. Then more suction cups. I'm beginning to see a pattern. Not my idea of phsycial therapy, seeing as no one ever actually touched me or showed me how to stretch or sit right. McTherapy. A few hot beds are cheaper than a staff that actualy *gasp* works with a patient.


So after all that I just ended up feeling like a baked potato or perhaps tenderized meat, and still no improvement. I'm just gunna stretch and exercise myself. The internet says the leading cause of upper back problems is muscle atrophy in people that sit at computers all day. Check on that one. Also might try a chiropractor or massage, probably both.

First it was my throat. Then my stomach. Back to the throat. Now my back. It seems I have a traveling health issue going on months. Apparently the stress has gotta go somewhere. I can't see there being much improvement until this year is up. I'm trying my best to destress but Korean work ethic isn't really designed for that. In fact quite the opposite...

Dreaming of getting back to the USA having some long tour in my little car stopping at farms and riding my bike, chilling on the beach, seeing friends and family. Ahhh...