Wednesday, January 11
I ran across a passage in Recovering from Parkinson’s about how scar tissue along the Stomach Channel can block the qi or make it run backwards: “the channel qi can eventually start to get backed up and then set in motion the various channel qi and muscle behaviors that ordinarily should only occur during pause.” I had a huge spider bite just below the waist, left side, July 2013 and hernial surgery, same side/area, November 2014, so that sounded important. I wrote Janice. She encouraged me to find an acupuncturist to examine and correct this, if needed. I replied that the finding an acupuncturist who speaks English would be the challenge. “Ask your Friend to make it happen.”
Okay.
So, as we were preparing for a walk I asked my Friend to help me find an acupuncturist who speaks English. On the way home a neighbor stopped in her car. I asked how she was. “Just got back from an orthopedist. He also does acupuncture.” And he speaks English and is based in Orvieto.
Thursday, January 12
It is written that when experiencing limpness (a recovery symptom I know too well) should something happen the brain categorizes as an emergency, normal movement will kick in to resolve the crisis. So, today the door bell rang. I was in the recliner which I cannot rise from without using its eject function. Roman was in the kitchen with the door closed and didn’t hear the bell. I was expecting a delivery from a place to which packages have been returned before when no one was home. The bell rang again. I was on my feet and at the intercom before I knew what happened. Rather a thrill, that.
Friday & Saturday, January 13 & 14
Limp!!! (And back to work on my novel.)
Sunday, January 15
Limp and light-headed around the house, steady and walking well in the garage; right arm has tightened hardly at all this week. Slept a straight eight.
Monday, January 16
Wide awake until 05:00, no thoughts or real discomfort, just raw energy. Hungry all day. Flashes of feeling safe that last only a few seconds signal a reduction by half of all symptoms for the duration of the flash.