March 17, 2018 I have completed the 3-day-a-week 5-week outpatient Pain Management program at Kaiser. The facilitators all made it clear from Day 1 that this is not a pain relief program but a pain management! And they were right. We were not allowed to talk specifically about our pain nor about medications. I posted…
Category: exercise
Day 10 Pain Management
February 9, 2018, 10:00 a.m. Meditation with Dr. Whitehead. Guided imagery of beach scene, my favorite. Exercise with Francis. He started us off with three Tai Chi exercises and told us to go through all 10 with the video over this weekend. He added 3 new core exercises to the first 7: calf stretch, fold-over,…
Office Visit with Francis, Physical Therapist
February 5, 2018, 9:00 a.m. Francis was prompt at 9:00 a.m. And I was ready. He spent a full hour with me, starting with a general overview of my current pain history. He was very thorough and professional and very holistic, asking me about other facets of my life, besides mobility, such as social and…
Day 7 Pain Management
February 2, 2018 With Francis: Meditation & Breathing Exercises (with breathing) Homework: Exercises 5-7 (in addition to 1-4) “L” (backside stretch) Wall plank Lying down “bridge” Most in the group have lower back issues All 7 exercises are included in yoga and Tai Chi Introduction to Tai Chi (10 exercises) – lots of arm movements…
May Challenges for Healing
Today I am beginning a 30-day challenge with the Atkins group, based on Dr. Eric Westman’s book, The New Atkins for a New You. Now that I have my migraines and Dawn Phenomenon under better control, I think I can do this! Plus, I just discovered that Dr. Westman uses Net Carbs and I’m so used…
Over Halfway
It’s been several weeks since my last blog post here, mostly because I’ve been on vacation, plus consumed with getting ready for vacation and then recovering from vacation once we got home! Also because things have pretty much leveled out on a plateau. A plateau that I’m not satisfied with, but have to accept nonetheless….
Insulin Resistance and Weight Loss
Here’s another thing that bugs me. When people are giving advice on how to improve your diabetes, one of the items is, “Lose weight.” That makes about as much sense to me as some thoughtless person telling a mom to “make your kids behave”! As a mother, I learned early on there is no way on God’s…
Unfounded Fears?
You know what my current fear is? That if I don’t take the recommended meds (statins, in this case), that the Dr. will refuse to order any more blood tests! Silly, I know, but it was just a thought that crossed my mind. I’m afraid if I take time to walk 5 miles a day,…
Easter Sunday
I still have frozen shoulder. I still get migraines approximately 15 days out of every 30. My biggest challenge is still exercise. I only averaged 21 min. daily, where it should be a minimum of 30 minutes. Now that the days are longer, I really have no excuse! Except today when it is raining. In…