Individual Acupuncture with Sophie I’ve lost count of how many individual acupunctures with Sophie I’ve had. I don’t think they are sticking to the limit of 10 sessions for chronic pain patients anymore. In fact, Sophie told me today that Acupuncture is currently no longer under the Pain Management Program. That’s because the in-person version…
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Shingles vaccine & acupuncture
Tuesday, February 15, 2022 My medical appointments for this week were made before we knew that Linda’s hip replacement surgery was moved up to January instead of February. Still, I felt I really needed to keep them (it was easier than trying to rescheduled). And we needed eggs from Ron at the Alameda Farmers’ Market….
October Transitions
Tuesday, October 5, 2021 Alameda Farmers’ Market Ron (the egg guy) told me that their main supplier, a family poultry farm for generations (Great Valley), is going out of business at the end of October. But he said he has found another farm with pasture-raised poultry where he can get the eggs. Pain Group Online…
Acupuncture & Flea Bites
Thursday, August 26, 2021 For the past several weeks, I’ve had these visciously itching little red sores all over my feet and ankles! I didn’t figure out what they were until this week, though I had been using Cortizone anti-itch cream and ointment. This week I added Caladryl (calamine lotion plus a topical analgesic). Finally,…
More QiGong
I was so sleepy today! We all had such a hard time waking up this morning and didn’t get to the Alameda Farmers’ Market until about a quarter after nine. There were no more yellow crime scene tapes around the vendor kiosks. Ron (and everyone else) did not have masks. I didn’t even think about…
Group Acupuncture 2021-06
It feels great to have Group Acupuncture nearly normal! We do still wear masks, but we didn’t have the plastic face shields today. I only “lost” one needle. The acupuncturist was the young Asian woman again. She was very polite and very competent in inserting the needles. The Eastern music was nice and helped me…
Acupuncture with Sophie #8
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 Linda has been very sick after her second COVID vaccine shot on Sunday. However, she seemed to feel better this morning, well enough to get up and make coffee then drive to Alameda. So we got eggs at the Farmers’ Market and then went to Trader Joe’s and Safeway. When we…
COVID Vaccine, 2nd shot, and Individual Acupuncture #7
It’s so nice to be able to have in-person acupuncture again! And I love Sophie’s new treatment table, made for patient comfort. Today I again indicated pain in the right side of my neck and in my lower lumbar region.
Group Acupuncture Again!
Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 1:50 p.m. It’s been more than a whole year since the last time I was in group acupuncture! So I knew there would be protocols, possibly having only 8 chairs in the room instead of the usual 16 chairs.
Acupuncture Session #6 with Sophie
I’m starting this post on Thursday, January 7. I responded to a phone call from the Kaiser Acupuncture Department, telling me to call for an appointment if I still wanted one. So I called today.