[tri-med] Re: Bec....Friday update

Penny, this is soooo interesting. I wonder if this gadget has reached 
our shores yet?

Catherine, I do hope Bec gets fixed soon.

At 02:20 AM 1/10/2006, you wrote:

>Hi Catherine :o)
>Here's some more thinking out loud...
>I have been having A LOT of headaches (just about daily) and A LOT of neck
>pain in the past several months...so much so that sometimes I just can't
>hold my own head up any longer :o( I've been using Advil in the RX strength
>which is like 3 or 4 at a time. I got a "birthday letter" from our
>chiropractor telling me I can get a free adjustment. I haven't been back to
>him since April over a year ago because I was going more than I could afford
>and the pretzel move just about put me through the ceiling every time and it
>just wasn't getting better. My BP also started being very high after I hurt
>my back 2 years ago after the hurricanes. It has been as high as 170/105
>(that was right before the RFL procedure I had...and it hurt even more than
>I thought it would) :o( I was on Atenolol and am now switched to
>Plendil...it's not great yet...but at least it's stable. BUT here's the
>thing about the chiropractor. They now have a thing called a ProAdjustor.
>They run a wand (like an US wand) all the way from the base of your skull to
>the sacral area. It puts out a color print out of your spine...there are
>color bars along each vertebrae...green is normal, yellow means mild
>pain/problem, orange means moderate pain/problem and red means severe
>pain/problem.  They then get you to sit on a special chair type thing and
>you rest your face into this cushion with a cut out so you can breath. They
>have the same pic of your spine to go by in the computer. They then take
>this little hand held thing that just fits right over each vertebrae...reads
>it and tells how many little taps it needs to get it back where it belongs.
>It doesn't hurt...though it is a bit noisy....and after it started and I saw
>it wasn't going to hurt like a regular adjustment has been...I was actually
>able to relax...which helps the procedure help a person much more. He does
>this with every vertebrae and at the base of skull around to each ear and
>even up the back of your head. When Dr Hayman saw my scan he said, "you've
>been having a lot of headaches and neck pain haven't you?". I was
>like..."uh....yeah...but how do you know that?". I had to turn my head as he
>tapped down my neck and across to each shoulder. When he's done tapping...or
>bapping as I called it because that's how it sounds...it shows him the
>picture with the color bars and color curves...he's explaining everything
>the whole way through. I was in much better shape when I left but it will
>take a few more sessions to get me where I need to be to have lots less
>pain. Many of the bars in my neck that were red and long are now green and
>short or green and medium to long...ideally they should all be green and
>short. The good news is that the last time I was there...they didn't yet
>have the Pro Adjuster (the Bapper) at that time...my low back/sacral area
>the bars were orange and red...this time they're green and yellow with a
>couple oranges :o) I think that means that the walking 5 mornings a week
>with Joe and the weight I've been losing a little at a time are all helping
>me??? I KNOW that neck problems can cause head and neck pain...and maybe
>even face pain in all kinds of ways I would never think of...maybe you could
>take Bec to a chiropractor in your area who perhaps has a pro adjustor???
>It's not invasive and doesn't hurt...although it might take some getting
>used to the bapping and noise???
>Just a thought...
>
>Love,
>Penny...loving & devoted wife to Joe, the best husband in the world...mom to
>Nick (15 yrs old...lover of Fishing, Dragons, Turtles, Blue Collar Comedy
>Tour, RollerCoasters, Chocolate Icecream w/ Ovaltine sprinkles, Devon (11
>yrs...lover of Barney, Blue, Nappy ol' Bear w/dreadlocks, Pooh, Elmo, & food
>in general. Full trisomy 13 w/balanced translocation 5 and 13) , and Trooper
>the Wonder Dog...our 9 ? year old yellow lab adopted from FL Lab Rescue
>12/13/02 :o) Please visit the webpage my wonderful friend Karen made for me
>on our trisomy listserv at:
>http://www.trisomyonline.org/victor.html
>AND...Devon's moment of glory in Exceptional Parent Magazine...
>http://www.eparent.com/familiarfaces/ffaces_4_01.htm
>AND...see our Trooper on FL Lab Rescue's website at:
>http://www.labradorrescue.net/success/index.html (Look for the name Trooper)
>AND :o) http://livingwithtrisomy13.org/album9.htm
>AND http://web.coehs.siu.edu/Grants/TRIS/
>"Normal people worry me"
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