November 22, 2004
Hope for a Bad Back
Some people know that Linda and I have an interest in alternative
medical therapies. In our case, many strange and wonderful things have
worked for us to reverse serious health problems. (I would refer you
to my book but since it is now out of print and only available in used
copies, and since we are trying to buy up as many of those copies as
we can, I’m not going to mention it, ‘cuz we don’t need any
competition. At some point, if I continue this blog, I’ll put the book
up as an Acrobat file for anyone who is interested to read).

Recently Linda had great success with neural therapy. (A related
modality is prolotherapy). For several years, perhaps three, she has
had severe, intermittent back pain. At these times she could hardly
walk and would lie down on the floor with her feet up on an ottoman.
The pain would strike suddenly and was quite debilitating. Then it
would subside, leaving a dull, chronic ache. Lifting grand babies
became an effort. I kept telling her she should get “the shots”. Our
friend Aran Galway, a Nurse Practitioner in Anacortes, does neural
therapy. He knows how to give “the shots.” On our way up to Lummi
Island we stopped in Anacortes where I was getting some alternative
dental treatment (more on that later) and Linda submitted to “the
shots.” She had four or five over two days. The pain went away
immediately. From what I can read about neural therapy this is not
unusual. When it works, it works right away. Like a miracle. You can
Google “neural therapy” if you’re interested and read all about it. No
one is completely sure how or why it works but it’s thought that the
injections (of a harmless substance) somehow clear up interference of
the body’s electrical fields. Some might cringe at having needles
stuck in their back, but after having needles stuck in my mouth two
days in a row, having them in the back doesn’t seem so bad. How did
Linda’s back pain develop? We wonder too. Our best theory is that it
happened in the dental chair when she was literally having every tooth
in her mouth crowned, capped or inlayed. All that tensing, clenching
anxiety.

So many people have chronic back pain that, before submitting to
invasive surgery it might be worth taking a shot at the shots.

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November 20, 2004
On an Island Without Granny G.
Lately, we’ve had this thing for islands. A lot of people don’t like
them. They get something called “island fever” which makes them feel
claustrophobic. I’ve never had that. Islands make me feel good;
protected. Plus, there’s adventure on an island. My love of islands
certainly started with Hat Island, aka