Tuesday, 17 March 2009
My Dear Friends,
Since I am still not sleeping and it's wearing me down, my neighbor recommended I go to her chiropractor for laser light treatments on my arm.
He said it's not tennis elbow, as he pressed where tennis elbow would be and it did not hurt.
He did find a few places in my arm that DID make me jump out of my skin. He said it's nerve entrapment.
So he put a few dots on me and his assistant lasered those areas. The thing looked like a thin flashlight with a cord. She touched the dots on various settings and I was done. Took like half an hour. He had also dug into my arm and stretched the wrist. They also zapped my carpal tunnel.
My arm feels at least 50% better! The carpals are still unhappy but we'll work on that. I'll be darned.
As we were leaving, the door was too heavy for my bad arm so I asked my youngest to open it. He pushed it open by leaning his back up against it. He was having pain before he even made it to the car.
We spent the entire evening in the emergency room. (Mark came straight from work and met us there.) No hernia, just a sprained abdominal muscle and a lotta Mommy guilt. I felt so bad.
As we were sitting in the emergency room, my oldest revealed he had torn his own left arm up on the nearby playground just before we left for the hospital. He fell off a swing from being pushed too high and fell onto the gravel below. He begged his father not to tell me because of all the stess with the younger one.
When I saw his arm, I exclaimed, "Jesus, God in Heaven!"
I made Mark take him to the bathroom to clean him up and apply Neosporin from my purse. He's OK, I guess, some gauze wrapping and bandages`later.
The younger one's pain had subsided to zero by the time we left the hospital.
What a day! I gotta get some sleep. It's 11pm.
Thank you for your continued prayers.
Love,
Jeanette
Since I am still not sleeping and it's wearing me down, my neighbor recommended I go to her chiropractor for laser light treatments on my arm.
He said it's not tennis elbow, as he pressed where tennis elbow would be and it did not hurt.
He did find a few places in my arm that DID make me jump out of my skin. He said it's nerve entrapment.
So he put a few dots on me and his assistant lasered those areas. The thing looked like a thin flashlight with a cord. She touched the dots on various settings and I was done. Took like half an hour. He had also dug into my arm and stretched the wrist. They also zapped my carpal tunnel.
My arm feels at least 50% better! The carpals are still unhappy but we'll work on that. I'll be darned.
As we were leaving, the door was too heavy for my bad arm so I asked my youngest to open it. He pushed it open by leaning his back up against it. He was having pain before he even made it to the car.
We spent the entire evening in the emergency room. (Mark came straight from work and met us there.) No hernia, just a sprained abdominal muscle and a lotta Mommy guilt. I felt so bad.
As we were sitting in the emergency room, my oldest revealed he had torn his own left arm up on the nearby playground just before we left for the hospital. He fell off a swing from being pushed too high and fell onto the gravel below. He begged his father not to tell me because of all the stess with the younger one.
When I saw his arm, I exclaimed, "Jesus, God in Heaven!"
I made Mark take him to the bathroom to clean him up and apply Neosporin from my purse. He's OK, I guess, some gauze wrapping and bandages`later.
The younger one's pain had subsided to zero by the time we left the hospital.
What a day! I gotta get some sleep. It's 11pm.
Thank you for your continued prayers.
Love,
Jeanette
posted by Mark Kappe @ 7:46 PM
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