Here is yet another example of how nutso I can be.
I’ve been going to the same chiropractor for about five years. I hurt my back playing racquetball, and after the initial problem was corrected, I’ve been getting a monthly adjustment. Throughout the years I haven’t loved my chiropractor; he’s just OK. He seemed to have been at least alright on the snap, crackle, pop end of things, as I did get relief after each adjustment (although he was a bit fierce in doing them).
Buy my cheif comHere is yet another example of how nutso I can be.
I’ve been going to the same chiropractor for about five years. I hurt my back playing racquetball, and after the initial problem was corrected, I’ve been getting a monthly adjustment. Throughout the years I haven’t loved my chiropractor; he’s just OK. He seemed to have been at least alright on the snap, crackle, pop end of things, as I did get relief after each adjustment (although he was a bit fierce in doing them).
Buy my cheif complaint was that he runs his shop like a Jiffy Lube; he’s got four rooms working simultaneously, so it’s in and out with each visit. I would have to argue with him to get him to talk to me for even 10 seconds, when what I wanted was to discuss my progress, and how I can improve my overall back health beyond the monthly adjustment. I don’t want to have to fight for my doctor’s attention. I’m already paying for that attention.
Still, chiropractors manipulate the spine, so I had been reluctant to just pick a new one (talk about putting yourself in a perilous situation if you pick the wrong one. [i]Crack![/i] Oh, sorry, Russ, but you’ll be walking hunched over at the ankles. Permanently. That’ll be $100. See you next time.)
That said, I recently received a recommendation for a new chiropractor, and went for an adjustment last week. In meeting the new chiropractor, I explained how I first hurt my back, that I’ve been getting monthly adjustments, but wanted to try someone new for the reason I just explained. And as I supposedly wanted, this new chiropractor was calm, patient and attentive. He listened. He gave me his time. And while he’s doing all that, I was thinking:
"Come on! Let’s get on with it! Are you going to crack my back or what?! Time’s a wasting!"
I had been conditioned by my old chiropractor for so long to just come into the room and get right to business, that I was actually annoyed that the new chiropractor was doing exactly what I said that the other guy wouldn’t do–listen–and why I came the new guy in the first place!
Wow. I can be really insane sometimes …
Post edited by: rcolchamiro, at: 2008/07/21 06:46
