A quick update to reassure you i didn’t go wandering off into the cosmos after the acupuncture appointment yesterday. It’s nice that i don’t have any needle aversions, but i think i would’ve been just find even if i did. It didn’t hurt at all – one spot on my ankle was a little more pinchy than the rest, but nothing i would call “pain.”
So ok. I gave her the rundown about how i’m, you know, not pregnant. And would like to be. She took a pretty complete medical history – that’s fine, i’m not particularly worried about her running around with the information. So she decided to start with a “balancing” treatment yesterday, to put us on a nice, clean slate. Ok, truthfully, i don’t have a clue what that translates to. What i do know is that even if i only manage to make progress towards my goal of relaxing more, i’m happy with that.
She put me on what i guess is basically a massage table – the kind with a hole for your face so you can lie on your stomach, which is what i did. Then she did the needles on my back, my ankles, my wrists, and my scalp. Yup, scalp. Didn’t feel a thing. She put some heat lamps over my back and feet (nice!) and left me in a fairly dark room with new-agey piano music for 25 minutes. I wasn’t even remotely tired when i went in and when she first left the room i started thinking “25 minutes? You want me to lay here like this and do absolutely nothing for 25 minutes and not actually stress out more!?” And then… i seem to have fallen asleep. Seriously. I was in that weird semi-conscious dreamstate before you really fall asleep and was certainly startled when she opened the door.
So she sent me home with some herbal supplements i’m supposed to take over the coming week that will do something, apparently, for my uterus, and a list of foods i can add (more of) to my diet. I told her at the beginning of the appointment that i’m pretty skeptical about all of this, but am willing to try things outside of my comfort zone at this point. She said that she hears that all the time – people always come to them when they’ve tried everything else and are kind of desperate. Yup, that’s me! She said she loves it because of the chance it gives her to show people that chinese medicine really works. Well, damn. If it does, i will gladly swallow my pride in exchange for a baby!
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