From gravel pit to jellyfish: Healers work magic on reporter's sore back.Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard I'm sitting on a tea leaf as I write this - and I like it. It's underneath my tailbone tail·bone n. See coccyx. and inching up my lower back. Mona Klinger put it there to draw out the heat. This is the area where all my nervous energy has gathered over the years, and it's made me "a Humpty Dumpty," says Papa K. I am a "rocky road," says the Hawaiian healer. Looking down my spine from the head of the massage table, I look like "a gravel pit," he says. I need straightening. I need to be realigned. It's not like I don't know this. My lower back has been a mess for 13 years, ever since I had surgery on my lowest disc in 1993. Three years ago, another doctor told me my two lowest discs were now "hamburger meat" from deterioration. And I have sciatica sciatica (sīăt`ĭkə), severe pain in the leg along the sciatic nerve and its branches. It may be caused by injury or pressure to the base of the nerve in the lower back, or by metabolic, toxic, or infectious disease. in my left leg, pain that shoots down to my foot whenever I stand in the same place for more than a few minutes. But now, as I lay face down, peering through a hole in the table, staring a Papa K.'s big brown leg as he and Mona rub my back, I am drooling drooling the discharge of saliva from the mouth. A normal feature in some breeds of dogs such as St. Bernard, Newfoundland and English bulldog, presumably because of their loose, pendulous lips. on the carpet and feeling just fine. "Here it comes Here It Comes is the third EP from Doves. It was the last release on the band's Casino Records label on August 2, 1999 on limited CD and 10" vinyl. Martin Rebelski, the unofficial fourth member of Doves, plays piano on the title track. ," Mona says, working on my lower back as Papa K. massages below my shoulders. "Ready?" "Oh, yeah - like a raging bull," Papa K. says, describing the pain, angst and energy that Mona is pushing up and out of me. My entire head is tingling tin·gle v. tin·gled, tin·gling, tin·gles v.intr. 1. To have a prickling, stinging sensation, as from cold, a sharp slap, or excitement: tingled all over with joy. as she pushes and prods. Later, she blows the "Breath of HA" on the sorest spot of my lower back. After the session, I am limp and giddy as a jellyfish jellyfish, common name for the free-swimming stage (see polyp and medusa), of certain invertebrate animals of the phylum Cnidaria (the coelenterates). The body of a jellyfish is shaped like a bell or umbrella, with a clear, jellylike material filling most of the on Xanax. |
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