Some relief...

OW that helped!

It has been many years since I went to a chiropractor, I had forgotten how much force they use to put those bones back in position...

He did remember me, he said, you look very familiar to me! So I had to fess up and tell him I used to reupholster his patient tables...and he said, OF course!  He did more small talking than he did adjusting...but It was ok.  

Got a huge crack out of the SI which was out as well as the L, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and my hip joint! The head of the femur....when he grabbed my leg twisted it then yanked...OMG a huge pop and some pain but it immediately felt better.  So basically my hip was out of place!!  So I gotta go back on Monday...and Im so happy he said all my problems are alignment issues..SO hopefully I will be able to walk normal again at some point...He allowed me to skip the therapy (heat/ice) that my insurance does not pay for and the xrays...because he said my description was so spot on for an SI-Joint misalignment that it was text book. 
So I have to ice for 20 minutes ever other hour!! I have been icing but not that often....so that's my assignment.  I hope the limp will go as the inflammation disappears...

I should not have been so stubborn about going but to be honest,...I was afraid.  NOT of the adjustment, but the what if he told me he can't help me? Then what? That was the big unknown. 

NOW I just hope it stays put...I know it's unstable, it's always given me some misery but it has never affected the leg/hip relationship...it's always been the pain in those little hollows of the back...

He told me after I closed my upholstery business, he and his wife bought a machine and started doing their own work tables!! Amazing. 

I told him I can not do upholstery anymore due to my hands least he try to force me back into it!! I had a lady try very hard to force me to do her chair when she learned I had returned to the area...I told her I had NO equipment...sold all of it, and she insisted I could figure out how to do it...I told her, please don't call me again!!

Imagine a mechanic with no tools? Same thing. 

Progress?

ELL, I GOT ONE THING ACCOMPLISHED

If I can make progress one thing per day IM happy.  I am not big on getting 'er all done in one day anymore...that was then this is now...So the trouble with the car continued and we went to the old tire dealer we used to use before he got soooo busy he never had time for us, and he is no longer open on Saturday and seems to always be short handed...but we decided if his parking lot was not overflowing we'd give him a try...

Right away he found the problem with the shaking of the front of the  car...another of the  used tires we purchased had a knot in it, so the steel belt was about to go which would surely mean another blow out this time on the front so we bought one more tire...he checked the other one so far its ok....the shaking went away! So it didn't need a wheel alignment after all...

NO MORE USED TIRES!! Not worth it lesson learned. 

Son begins the new job tomorrow...it's only 25 miles round trip daily but still better safe than sorry...

AND I made my Chiropractic appointment.  Wednesday 10 am...Hope he can help me...it's the same guy I have gone to years ago! In fact I used to do his table upholstery...Im sure he has all new ones by now...and I wonder if he will remember me.  

I just hope he CAN help my hip flexor problem!

Old Age and other pending dooms

HEN WE BECOME OUR PARENTS...
My Mom Asked a Doctor once, "why does my head hurt when I cough?" He replied..
"I don't know." 

At least he was honest and didn't try to add yet another prescription to her already long enough list.  Today I wanted to aske the same question...why does my head hurt when I cough? I am now using my mom's walking cane to get around!! So much can change in one day but this came on slowly but suddenly if that makes any sense...I really have no clue since I hate doctors and will do almost anything to avoid seeing one. 

My right hip joint is in constant pain and sometimes I can barely put weight on it...I have always had SI Joint issues with it being basically unstable.  But now it's way more than that.  I hope a chiropractor can help but so far I haven't made an appointment have not been to one in like 30 yrs?? So not at all familiar with who is out there to be  honest.  
Meanwhile I moan groan, take otc pain meds and do the best I can.  It has eaten into my birding as I find myself wanting to go and I do go but I avoid long walking trails that I used to enjoy being on.  

I now wish I had kept some of my moms other old age tools...

It took about 2 trips with my sisters Jeep for us to cart all her 
old age aides to the goodwill...she had a couple of those rolling walkers, a regular walker, a bath chair, a bedside potty chair,  a quad cane, and three regular canes, a wheel chair, a lift assist recliner, an oxygen machine and oxygen bottles, the list was pretty long.

And I since I had covid in 2020 I have not really been 100%.  I now have this rather annoying cough.  I have become my mother and my son is becoming his dad.