Acupuncture...

I've been to Acupuncture before when I was in a lot of pain for a bulging disc in my neck. However, Luanne recently told me that I should try it for nausea, that it's been known to help. Sure enough, I asked Dr. Hui and started Acupuncture again. This time it's supposed to coincide with the chemotherapy. When I went to my last treatment this past Friday, I first went to Acupuncture in the morning. Dr. Han proceeded to put needles in various places, but focused mainly on my ears and wrists. She left a couple band-aid type strips on the inside of both wrists and said that if I was experiencing nausea that I could actually press my wrists with my thumb and index finger and it should relieve it. She then left several of those band-aids in my ears. She said that after about 4-5 days I could remove them. Well, each band-aid has a little prick needle in it. Yeah, fun. Well, everything was good until I had to sleep Friday night. Try sleeping on your side with needles (so to speak) in your ears! I cannot sleep on my back because it hurts, besides, I've always been a side sleeper. Well, I managed to figure it out by arranging my pillows and getting to sleep. However, the wrist ones were zapping me every time I moved my hands!! In the morning I had to remove the wrist ones, I just couldn't handle it anymore. However, good news, I've tried pressing my wrists in the exact place she told me, without the band-aids and it's been successful :) I haven't had any anti-nausea meds in a few days. Hurray!! The ear ones still remain in my ears, although they're not too attractive. I met with my good friend Kim this morning for breakfast and she wondered what the heck was in my ears! We laughed and I explained what was going on.

After breakfast Kim and I went back to her house and we spent some good quality time chatting. I'm so glad that we put that time aside to get in touch. Although it was early in the morning, it was good for both of us. Afterwards I went home and straight back to bed. My days tend to go in spurts now, awake a few hours, asleep a few hours. But when I'm awake, I'm usually good to go and want to hurry and get as much done as I can before I run out of energy.

Live for today. No regrets, no looking back.

Peace to you all ♥ Love, Genie