Frelling New Age Hippies!

I go to the new agey NSA doc and what do I get? First, I do get an adjustment, for about 10 minutes. Then she proceeds to beat me over the head with the New Age stick and tell me that my back is out because I didn't do a detox when she told me to and I haven't changed my diet to the Blood Type Diet like she told me to.

WTF?

For one thing, the adjustment should be about 20 minutes, not 10. Secondly, I daresay that my diet has little to do with the sudden onset of paralyzing back pain. While I appreciate her counsel, it's not doing me a lot of good right this minute. YES, we should all be nice and "think nice thoughts about ourselves and our lives". YES, we should all eat fresh wholesome organic health foods that are precisely aligned with our blood types and don't forget those chakras. YES, we should all sit around and meditate on the state of our souls and how we can "make a better story for ourselves".

But none of us do. We do the best we can. I take my supplements and I eat a decent diet. Come OUT of me, HIPPIE!! I can't believe she wasted half my adjustment time telling me that not doing the Blood Type Diet and not thinking nice thoughts about my life (like SHE knows my thoughts, yah) has caused my disk to compress. ?? At least I found out that my vertebrae are not out of whack, it's most likely the disk.

I think it's more reasonable to assume that the new exercise routine has something to do with it. But NOOOO, according to her, it's all my fault for not changing my diet to the one she prescribed a couple of months ago.

Well, look, I understand the importance of diet more than most and I've looked at the Blood Type Diet. I think it's pseudo-science hooey. I will never follow the Blood Type Diet! So I don't understand why she thinks it's helpful to me to be lectured about my "bad habits" and lack of "appreciating the pain as a gift". Um, pain is not a gift, it's a PAIN, hence the name, PAIN. Duh. Pain means there is something wrong right now and it needs to be addressed right now. She actually said, "when you have the pain, you should think 'thank you' and try to appreciate it and not be so NEGATIVE about it". Um, yah, and don't forget to sing Kumbayah while I'm at it. FRELL!

Gods, I wish I could just go, get the goddamn adjustments for 20 minutes and LEAVE. I really don't have the patience to be lectured when I'm in pain - especially about something that I don't think is relevant right this second. Of course, we should all navel gaze and be vegetarians and think happy thoughts, but I don't think that it'll help a compressed disk that's hurting like a motherfucker.

Frelling New Age HIPPIES. CK! CK! CK!

The adjustments do help, however, so I'll put up with her stupid ass to get what I need from her. I"ll just have to avoid undue conversation. I don't want to snap her like a twig just yet, but I may have to if she ambushes me like that again. Just DAMN.

Posted by Misangela at October 2, 2006 05:20 PM