I enjoyed Meeko's first snow with her this morning. :)

*I stopped going to the chiropractor and found someone who I feel I can trust with my neck and back issues. I saw him today after work and I was very pleased. My neck is a little messed up (according to x-rays :/), BUT treatment has been making it feel better, so it's a very positive sign that things may stay in the positive. :) I am thankful I trusted my instincts and had so much helpful advice from friends and family. Thank you all for caring.*

Neal and I were having a pretty rough morning. He hasn't been feeling well and my neck has really given me the fits. It was nice to listen to Acts on the way to work. A very encouraging book for christians. It set a focus. We decided that we were going to have a good day.
When he stepped out of the car at school, we noticed how cold it was. Looked up to see 37 degrees. "Wouldn't it be so special if it snowed today, Emily? Even if just a few flakes."

About an hour later as we were both settling into our work day it snowed. We shared a cheesy text from our phones with eachother. I don't think I stopped smiling from then on. It was a nice moment and a nice day.

We made it to my appointment right on the nose after work, almost late from traffic. But stayed possitive. :)
We ate chicken nuggets tonight from one plate and we both had our special "chip" snack 10 minutes before we had to leave for our teacher's class. Running late .... We giggled the whole time.

Tonight we had our last teacher's class with Bob Dickey. (Made it with time to spare. :)) I continue to just enjoy the heart and energy this man puts into teaching the gospel. We did a group exercise on finding joy and rejoicing in the book of Phillipians and where it was focused vs. the world focus on joy. Talk about a focus set on where it needs to be. I enjoyed pleasant fellowship after the study with friends and with people I haven't really been able to talk with yet. It was nice, seeing how that congregation seems so very big to me sometimes. Little by little it gets smaller as I meet one more brother or sister... :)


I encourage you all to set your focus and aim true. Turn your wrong side of the beds into a adventure to find the right. Or the wall in my case, cause I sleep by the wall. ;P So....something, but nothing like that. ;) :)


"To live is Christ..." Phil 1:21 How true.

If you're a christian I hope you feel blessed and encouraged and if you aren't I pray you decide to be. There is only empty happiness without and true joy and rejoicing in none other.

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I laughed and smiled so much more than I thought I would when I got out of bed this morning.
It's nice when a not-so-great day turns into a blessing simply when you just stop and start to realize that it is.

:)
Sweet dreams.

So...maybe some of you have had some good chiropractor stories, but I am not impressed.

My pain has pretty much tripled. And I now hurt in 4 more places than I did. I only went in for my neck and a headache. I'm a little (maybe a lot) frustrated.

I enjoyed seeing the x-rays of my spine. Those kinds of things fascinate me! :D It was rather neat to see my spine and to see that it was a bit out of whack. However, I am lucky that I know a little something about my body being that I do physical therapy. So, x-ray review and an adjustment up and down my spine was yesterday. Today was my first "real" treatment. I was feeling pretty gross last night before bed and even worse today. Hard day. (I'm sure any of you with a lot of back pain can relate.) I decided to give it one more try and just see what a normal treatment would be like, seeing how I hadn't actually had a "normal" treatment...just an eval, xrays, xrays report, and a heel lift. Besides, they do things different than I'm used to. I thought I would see how she took to my pain complaints and what she did to treat them. However, after this appointment, things just did not add up to me. I am a little saddened and disapointed to say the least. And still hurting. :(

I am not frowning on going to a chiro...I'm sure some of them are most excellent. :) However, this just isn't my cup of tea. :( I am going to see how I feel within the next couple of days and make a final conclusive decision on whether I'll go back and it doesn't look favorable, sigh. :(

I am still doing okay and still counting my blessings. I apologize for this blog if it sounds like I am complaining. I didn't write it to do such, I am more just disapointed and want to give you the heads up just in case you might try a chiro. I didn't go into detail with my experience, but if you're considering going and you have some questions, I'll try to help with my experience and few knows about ouches and pains. Perhaps, you can prove me wrong and know a pretty fantabulous chiro. If so, do share. :)


God obviously thinks I can handle this, so I can't let Him down. :) I'm going to pig out on those green tree cookies we made last night, rest, and ice up. :)



p.s.
Moral of THIS story? See a physical therapist. (Kidding.) ;) Lol.

So, last week, my husband and I were driving to work and got in a little bit of fender bender. We stopped, the guy behind us didn't. I, in the front seat navigator position, was reeeeally getting into a made up serenade to my handsome husband as we were stopped at a red light. I was turned to face Neal for the final belt of one horrific ending note...CRASH.

Now, first off, everyone is okay. Very little damage to our car and an unfortunate crunch on the driver that hit us, but he is okay. Neal and I really counted our blessings that morning.

Because I was turned to look at my husband...this little neck of mine..on impact...decided to sprout it's evil revenge for belting out the horrific note. It was an interesting first thanksgiving as husband and wife. :P But we couldn't have had a better time. It was so wonderful to see my family and have Neal by my side and I am incredibly blessed to be married into such a great NEW family side. Good times. Full belly. ;)

So, I didn't go to the emergency room. I am much too stubborn for that. :/ However, I did set up an appointment with a chiropractor. Yesterday was my first appointment and she pretty much bent my head in every which way and took a bzillion x-rays.

Today...I went back. Survey says? My spine is kind of messed up. Things that are supposed to point one way point another, alignment is off, and one leg is shorter than the other throwing off my hips, my shoulders, chest, practically my whole body (which is the probable result to why certain things don't point the way they should). She was pretty much surprised to see that I am a healthy functioning adult with just some increased neck pain from the accident the way my spine looked in the x-rays. I've only had knee pain when I was younger with sports (it has gotten better with time so I rarely have troubles with it now) and only started my neck stuff with that most awful "swiss ball" accident up in MI. I think that exciting saga is in previous pleo posts...

So, I am puzzled as to how I don't have more chronic pain than I do, but chalk it up to being blessed that it has been caught now instead of years down the road when these "special treasures" could really cause some problems.

I am okay. It does not seem to be affecting my vagus nerve like last time. I get a cool heel lift in my left shoe now and go snap, crackle, pop 3x a week.

In the mean time...we've been decorating our house like nobodies business and baking GREEN cookies. :D

Oh, and no more serenades. :/ :P

Sweet dreams.

I'm enjoying the glow of our christmas tree.

And really counting my blessings.