New chiropractor; mole whacked

[unixronin]

And this one's a live one.  Allow me to pass on a recommendation for Arrow Straight Chiropractic, of 46 Bridge Street, Nashua, New Hampshire.  This guy is a chiropractor such as I've been seeking since we left San Jose -- a guy who doesn't push any bullshit, just understands the spine, has a drop table (a row of three of them, actually), and knows how to use it.

He told me there was good news and bad news on my spinal X-rays.  Frankly, I consider it all good news.  The good news part was basically that my spine's in better shape than it has any right to be at 45, with no visible disc deterioration at all, no fusion, and mostly only minor deviations; what he considered the bad news was that the angle between my sacrum and my last lumbar vertebra was 30° instead of the 14° it should be.  (There were several other angles that were off, but they were all marginal, only 1° outside normal.)  I choose to take this as good news, that it's a single clearly identifiable problem, that it accounts perfectly for the sometimes-crippling back pain I get, and that there doesn't appear to be anything else wrong that isn't compensation for it -- so if we can get my sacrum back into line, I should be in great shape.

On Thursday, I finally had my dermatologist appointment; he took off one possibly-suspect mole for biopsy, and gave me a clear pass otherwise (and a new prescription for the 2% Nizoral shampoo for my dermatitis).

And just for amusement, in the course of these various appointments, I wrote check #1027 on 10/27, #1028 on 10/28, and #1029 on 10/29.  Sheer coincidence, but fun.  I'm not scheduled to write any checks tomorrow, though.

Comments

[plutosonium.livejournal.com]

Congrats on finding a good chiropractor. Mine made my body much more bearable. Completely changed the way I saw chiropractors. :)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I guess I was fortunate in that my first two chiropractors were both really good ones (Sean [mumble] and Todd Bragg, both in San Jose), so my opinions were formed from them instead of from the string of three or four quacks I've encountered in between Todd and the current one.

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

that's good news!

lol on the check thing!