AF Daily Monday 2/15

[greeneyes]

Morning abbers!

Bear hope you're feeling better today. I know your resolve is in top form!

Is it time for a DG search party?

Here is a place I might drive up to today. The Whalehead Club at Heritage Park - Corolla, North Carolina I was fascinated by the place years ago when we stayed in Whalehead beach for a week in summers. It was in a state of disrepair and the wild horses hung around the grounds. It was a restricted area but I could not stay away.

Marshy, did the year of the tiger forecast sprinkle some angst on you? I am not very good with things like that. Gambles. I can whip up a whirlwind of anxiety and fly off into orbit with it.

These dogs are poop machines. It is so disproportionate to what goes in I just don't understand.

Have a miraculous monday!

[Doggygirl]

AF Daily Monday 2/15

Hi all! No need for a search party! Greenie it's funny you mention that though, as I've been thinking of you guys and finally this morning said to self "I have GOT to get on MWO this AM!!" You speak to me through the universe Greenie!

The Whalehead place looks gorgeous! So has it been renovated since the time you were there? (must be!) :H on the Poop Machines. Raw Feeding is one way to reverse the ratios of volume in / volume out.

I ended up in the emergency room Friday night in more pain than I have ever experienced. (I haven't had babies though!) Apparently I have injured or damaged or torn something where my bicep attaches to the bone via tendon in my right arm. I think my chiropracter did it. So I still have to figure out how I shall deal with that. She will deny and I cannot pretend that "nothing happened" because I felt something "not right" when she worked on my elbow last week. Anyway....I am amazed that ONE high power pain / anti-inflamatory pill took the pain down from 10 to 1. That's right - only ONE pill early Saturday morning. I feel the ache where the injury is and I know I have to find out more about getting it healed up so I can get back to weight training. (need to see a doc this week about it). I'm just is all.

Anyway, it was certainly a situation that made me incredibly grateful not to be drinking. Are you kidding me??? In days of old I would have been 10 sheets to the wind and made an ass of myself in the emergency room. Or just insisted on being an ass in the comfort of my own home, much to the misery of Mr. Doggy.

On the way to the hospital, we passed a road block where they were pulling people into a shopping center parking lot and appeared to be giving "driving tests." I was also very grateful not to be worried about that! I took that as a message from the universe. I thought about all the times where I *said to myself* I was *OK to drive* when in truth, I would have landed in jail with a DUI if I had been stopped through a road block like that. I have no idea after all the years of drinking and stupid decisions how I ended up NOT having DUI / jail / kill somebody or myself problems. I can only chalk it up to sheer luck, and I am grateful.

Is everyone glued to the Olympics??? :bling

DG

[Lavande]

AF Daily Monday 2/15

Morning Abbers,

Greenie, that looks like a nice day trip for you - go for it! At least you'll be away from the dog poop for the day
Watching my son's two Goldens this weekend has me wondering about the poop situation too!!! I'm ready for them to go home today.

DG, Ouch! Sorry about your injury, sounds painful! Glad you were able to get some relief.
I have to tell you - back in 1971 our nursing instructors made us vow to stay away from chiropracters..... Their practice was frowned upon back then! They treat symptoms such as pain but they don't correct the problem that is causing the pain. Sometimes, as in your case they worsen or cause new problems. Are you going to need to see a surgeon? I will be thinking of you today

Can't wait until lunchtime when my son returns to pick up his dogs............I am so tired of them! They really disturb the peace around here, no kidding!!

Wishing everyone a terrific AF Monday. Unfortunately we have more snow on the way tonight. Does anyone need any? I'll ship it to you with love

Lav

[greeneyes]

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Ouch DG! I know what you mean about the drinking. When I cracked my head when I fell off the rolling chair, I was so thankful to be able to simply get in the car and drive myself there. Just go on and take care of business. Wondering... what do you want from your chiro? Compensation? You are such a fair level-headed person I can't see why an agreement can't be reached. Why do you think she would deny? But you do need to hurry up and say something as if there IS a disagreement, passage of time may not be your friend. Boy, I have on nosey pants today. :H

[greeneyes]

AF Daily Monday 2/15

LAV, you have rung my "alternative medicine" bell! As in all professions, some chiropractors are better than others, but they are absolutely qualified to treat the problem. I sometimes make that same claim about mainstream medicine - treating the symptoms and not the problem. Chiropractors won the antitrust suit they brought against the AMA for their exclusion attempts.

These dogs are so sweet and peaceful (older), and they think I'm the queen of the doggie universe. Maybe not that but at least queen of the biscuits.

DG I felt pain when I saw that pair fall. How they go on and then sit in the little score waiting spot without sobbing is beyond me!

[Doggygirl]

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Good morning to you too Lav! Wow - everyone is doggy sitting today. I'm doggy sitting too, except that all of the ones I'm doggysitting ARE home. There will be nobody coming to pick them up and take them AND their poopers somewhere else! :H

Greenie, no - no compensation. There was probably already a problem developing and I think when she twisted my arm it probably sent "whatever" over the edge. I've been seeing her since last summer and she has really done some good stuff for my lower back, upper back and hip. She only recently started working on some elbow pain I've been having.

My issue with her is that she can NEVER EVER EVER admit that ANYTHING she does might not be perfect. She also is wearing me out with the insistance that I need a zillion adjustments a week. I never let her talk me into anything or any schedule that I'm not willing to do / pay for. I just get weary of the pressure and debate.

Additionally, the trip to the emergency room is going to take a bite out of my healch care budget. While I feel good after my back adjustments, and would LOVE to do them every day if I could, it's not practical. And now I'm going to need to cut it back further and she's going to give me a hard time about it.

I have a love hate relationship with her I guess. :H Thanks for listening to my rant/vent!

DG

[Doggygirl]

AF Daily Monday 2/15

greeneyes;806493 wrote: DG I felt pain when I saw that pair fall. How they go on and then sit in the little score waiting spot without sobbing is beyond me!

Amen. I only remember renting ice skates one time in my life. One fall and I was off the ice never to return. I truly don't know how they do it.

DG

[greeneyes]

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DG, I seriously question why you would need to be seen so frequently at this point. That necessity should have ceased in the very beginning. I think you need a new chiro.

Anybody need 2 cents? I'm passing them out like crazy here. :H

[Raven.joy]

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Hi guys. I have no experience of dogs. I guess kids are my thing. hope you are feeling better soon doggy girl.

[Doggygirl]

AF Daily Monday 2/15

greeneyes;806501 wrote: DG, I seriously question why you would need to be seen so frequently at this point. That necessity should have ceased in the very beginning. I think you need a new chiro.

Anybody need 2 cents? I'm passing them out like crazy here. :H

I think you are right...

[momof3]

AF Daily Monday 2/15

Greenie. We went to the Whalehead Club this past summer. It is quite lovely and repainted in a beautiful shade of yellow. There is a nature center on the grounds too. There's a new Harris Teeter up that way too. And, of course, I love the Timbuck II shopping center shops.

DG. Sorry to hear about your shoulder. Sounds very painful. Have you ever tried osteopathy? I find it much less aggressive than chiropractic and more effective, at least for me.

Lav. More snow...ouch. We are getting more too. If my children don't go back to school tomorrow, I am going to lock them in the basement and be done with it.

M3

[Doggygirl]

AF Daily Monday 2/15

Wow - M3 I BET you are ready to lock the children in the basement!! :H I hope the snow lets up for you soon and things get back to normal!

The referral docs given to me by the emergency room doc are both Osteopaths (I've never seen one before so didn't even know what "D.O." meant until googling!). So I think you might be onto something. Assuming I can find a good one (which is where I need advice!) it seems like a practical blend of traditional medical training and more holistic type training - at least as far as the musculoskeletal system is concerned.

Are there resources you guys can suggest to try to find out more about either of the docs recommended, or a different one? I'm not really interested in all the "paid report" services that come up on Google, unless one of you can tell me that a specific report service is worth it....

Greenie, I've been questioning this chiros long term, never ending program in my head for quite some time. Maybe this is "karma" having something happen that led to you and M3 feedback, and considering a change.

The Universe is a wonderful place, as is MWO!

DG

[Raven.joy]

AF Daily Monday 2/15

and MWO is a wonderful universe..

[Doggygirl]

AF Daily Monday 2/15

Well, I have an appointment with one of the D.O's recommended by the emergency room doc on Friday. I'm looking forward to considering some new directions taking care of this old bod. (well, it's only 29 but you know what I mean...)

DG

[Marshy]

AF Daily Monday 2/15

Helloooo pooper scoopers,


Zooooom, zooom. Trying to plough through library books before they are due back rather than spending time on the computer.

DG - oucha! Hope you get it sorted out soon with whichever doc you feel is right.

greeneyes;806501 wrote:
Anybody need 2 cents? I'm passing them out like crazy here. :H

I DO need your 2 cents Greenie. Do I make the gamble or not? You know nothing about it, I don't know much about it. Yes or no? What's the universe telling ya?

Lav - I think I'd rather have your snow than my sleet. Yuk.

Stay sober out there, people.