Today I went to the Southern Women’s Show in Raleigh. In the 1990s, my daughter and I went EVERY year to the show in Nashville. I would take off work, keep her out of school and we’d go enjoy a mother-daughter day of makeovers and fun. Back then, Kroger had an entire section of delicious samples to test. Those are good memories for me.
Nowadays, the food samples are few (they did give out Skinny Cow ice cream, yummy), the lines are too long and I am too tired to make it a major event.
There must be a lot of people in pain, because there were a lot of pain-reducing exhibitors. One was a Go Green Pain Relief which offered a spray “all natural pain relief.” It included grape seed oil, jojoba oil, aloe vera, vitamin e and Australian oil of Eucalyptus and promised to relieve or stop pain from arthritis, fibromylgia, lupus, etc., etc. The lady rubbed some smelly stuff on my neck and shoulder. It did make my muscles relax immediately – for about 10 minutes. Then – not so much. And it only cost $49 – I didn’t buy it.
I did get a free ‘computerized spinal examination through surface sEMG which measures relative levels of electrical activity generated when muscles contract.' Sounds like a bunch of goobledy-gook. My graphic didn’t have much green (normal) but lots of reds which show high tension on my left side and below normal tension on the right side. The structural damage in my back from my broken back at T5 means I overcompensate (work harder) on my left side and don’t do much with the muscles on my right side where the pain is. Makes sense to me.
If I thought it would do any long-term good, I’d go to the chiropractor, but I’ve done that before and it doesn’t fix the damage nor the pain. Guess I’ll just take a pill, lie down and relax to relieve the pain. I’m still glad I went. The memories of time with my daughter are good!
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