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| Logan |
Posted - 12/29/2004 : 16:19:33
Just thought I'd share this with you all. Today as I was checking my email and trying to decide which coffee house I would go to in order to enjoy my free rainy afternoon, the phone rang. I jumped up to get it as my husband had just called to tell me that the county might call in order to schedule his traffic school date (he's a leadfoot). As I jumped up, I hit my ankle bone on the metal leg of my office chair. There's nothing like the pain of hitting a "funny" bone to make you swear like a truck driver. So, I was swearing and limping like a three legged dog to get to the phone which was at the other end of the house in time to take the call...
I finally get there and I answer it, out of breath, only to find out it was a woman from a "Dr." Johnson's office. He just opened a new chiropractic practice in my area and was offering free diagnostic sessions, she'd be happy to make an appointment for me today! I was so annoyed and in so much pain, thanks to yet another annoying telemarketer whose number didn't show up on the caller ID, all I could think to say was "I'm not interested," and then I hung up. I was thinking about it later, at the coffee house, and I wished I'd said, "Since I read The Mind Body Prescription" by Dr. John Sarno, I have no need for your so-called doctor's chiropractery or any such quakery." But then I thought it was just as well, you can't lead a horse to water or a chiropractor's receptionist to Sarno. |
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| Logan |
Posted - 12/30/2004 : 10:38:02
Baseball and Anne, you guys brought up a valid point: chiros are like these legitimized, medicalized gigolos. Now that I think about it, the chiro I saw for two years was tall, dark and handsome, in his early 30s, very charming and sincere etc. He charmed me out of about $2,000 and that was over and above what my insurance covered.
And yes, Tennis Tom, you seem to have summarized my husband's feelings on horsepower. He got pulled over for doing 90 in a 65. In his defense, I'll say it is sort of a speed trap there because the speed limit drops from 75 for a few miles for no apparent reason. Luckily, since it was his birthday, the nice officer only cited him for doing 80, which is not the felony that 90 is. This saved us about $400, and a lot of repressed anger over losing that money! :) |
| n/a |
Posted - 12/30/2004 : 10:37:14
Thanks for the explanation, tt. We don't have an equivalent descriptive word for a speeder over here - at least non that I can recall.
You are right about the HP of cars making the temptation to 'sink the boot' as we sometimes say, pretty hard to resist. Mind you, we have speed cameras everywhere and it's easy to get caught.
I have to say that any time I have been in the US I have found driving a less TMS inducing activity than over here - people seem more willing to drive within the limit.
People drive faster generally over here, I think - the speed limits are higher. American relatives and friends seem to find driving here pretty nerve wracking at first. We have round-abouts - with rules that must seem undecipherable, all over the place. One friend calls them games of chicken. And of course 99% of us drive cars with manual gear exchange.
Mind you - British bad driving pales into insignificance compared to what goes on in some of the southern European countries. Drive in Italy - I'd rather undergo back surgery without an anaesthetic - OK, I exaggerate, but only a little.
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| tennis tom |
Posted - 12/30/2004 : 09:08:41
Dear AnneG,
Let me see if I can clarify the meaning of "leadfoot" since the UK and US are two countries separated by a common language. Leadfoot may sound like a TMS equivalent but you won't find it in any of Sarno's books. It can have some emotional elements to it but not necessarily. Being a leadfoot is usually just a passing occurence and doesn't result in any long term damage unless it results literaly in a head-on.
It means that one is a fast driver; a speeder; someone who drives with a heavy foot on the gas pedal, (the accelerator). I myself ocassionaly have done this but have cooled it since my recent citation, (a ticket, not an honor), for doing 93 mph in a 55 mph. ("But I have an explanation officer." "Tell it to the judge." I did, and was able to get it reduced to 65 mph in a 55 mph zone).
Why would they make autos with 500 horsepower and capable of going 190 mph if you couldn't put the pedal to the metal and punch it on occasion. I think having to repress all that horsepower constantly, can result in TMS sciatica, of the right leg. I'm thinking of going out on an auto racetrack next year to let it all out.
Thanks for that heads-up on the Simpsons, AnneG. I caught an episode last night and it is quite clever TV. I will start watching and look for the chiro episodes and the Sarno subtleties.
Best Wishes & Happy New Year!
tt |
| n/a |
Posted - 12/30/2004 : 02:32:45
Thanks for those posts,, Logan and Baseball65 - they really made me laugh.
In an episode of The Simpons I watched the other night - I posted about it on the thread, 'Insurance.' Homer's career as a chiro ends when two mafia type characters arrive at his house, steal his 'spine adjustor (his old dented trash can), and remind him, with menaces, that he lives in 'chiro town.'
Funny you should mention it, Baseball65 - the chiro I used to see was a 6'4" South African guy, around 35. Was he good looking? Let me put it this way - he was recommended to me by two different colleagues, female of course, who couldn't mention his name without an enigmatic smile.
What's a leadfoot, Logan? I haven't heard that before. |
| Baseball65 |
Posted - 12/29/2004 : 18:45:48
Hi Logan
I read Tennis Toms interesting link to "Quackwatch" and I got lost for HOURS reading all kinds of interesting stories about chiro's.
My favorite one is under the Chiropractic list.It was the auto-biography of a young girl who'd worked as a receptionist and later a "therapy" assistant at a chiro's office.She said she was pressured to get as many people as possible into the office,in a variety of different ways.She remarked that in her entire time of employment,there was not a SINGLE patient she could ever recall who did not need an adjustment and ongoing treatment.
One day when business was extra slow,the two "Drs" asked her why she hadn't called her friends in for adjustments....pressuring her to drum up biz.
My wife was seeing a quack like this right before we left Los Angeles....I thought it was B.S. and my first intuition was he was probably A. Tall and good looking B. around 35-45 C. a real good talker and D. had a mainly female clientele.
I was right on all four charges.....I went to see him to shut her up....I had no symptom other than ANGER....He of course told me that I had a Liver problem and was really angry......
Hmmmmm......on the questionaire where it asked for complaints I put:"angry all the time" and where it put any past problems I filled in "Smoking,and drug and alcohol abuse"......DUHHHHHH!
Funny thing was,at my regular GP's office I had just run a liver/kidney check,as a REAL urologist noted that I had a mildly enlarged prostate,and to just keep an eye on it with a check of the kidney/liver every few years.Mine was AOK......
...My boys began to make fun of my wife today when we were out shopping...."Hey Mom...remember? we're allergic to all those things Dr. Marty told us about?".....He gave my whole family laundry lists of things that were causing them trouble..corn,house mold,"parasites",fruit,cheese,....the only trouble we had was fighting over paying that QUACK the 25 dollar co-pay and the "herbal supplements" he conveniently sold out of his office!
I guess if I was just a little better looking ,I could have been a chiropractor too!!
ahhhh...I guess I'll have to keep on painting.
Baseball65 |
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