Oh, The Ides

So this carpal tunnel thing got real nasty, real quick. I've slept a grand total of about seven hours over the last five or six days, and I'm starting to feel a lil' unstable, if ya feel me. My eating has been decent to good; I think I've had three cookies in as many days. The sheer amount of edamame and celery and citrus and spinach I eat offsets that enough, I want to think. Sugar is sugar, though, and I felt better when I was off it.

I think the carpal tunnel might be a blessing in disguise. It is the final call that I need to alter my lifestyle permanently and for the better. I went to the chiro today, had my first adjustment and then some electropulse muscle stimulation thing and I feel good. Real good. Saw my spine x-rays; doc says I just need a tune-up, not a new engine--nothing shocking or horridly alarming. HOWever, it became apparent, real live in film, that the weight I carry pulls on me, literally drags me down. Undeniable, right there on the lightboard.

And the thing is, I've felt so crappy and worn out these last two weeks that I feel like I'll do anything to make it all feel better. I think this means, right now, treatment by a physician to facilitate better health, including weight loss, spinal realignment to allow me to exercise more with lessened pain, proper nutrition and a personal trainer, and I have finally found them, all under one roof, with an affordable staff of very kind, very knowledgable physicians and therapists...and they'll let me be on a payment plan for a $120 a month, on into the future. Um, done and done. I have to see them 4 times a week for a minute, but if that's what it takes to sleep again, and potentially stimulate my slumbering thyroid, so be it. 4 times a week it is.

It's been so long since I've had access to health care, I almost feel dizzy with joy and wonder that someone finally seems willing to help me at a price that I can actually pay.

Fingers are done.

xoxoxoxox big love.