Because of my peanut and seafood allergies, I am not the biggest fan of Thai food. My dietary restrictions, as well as my relatively closed-minded sense of culinary adventurousness, limit me to only the blandest of items on the menu. But I will go to Thai Time in San Carlos any day of the week [...]
Archive for the ‘Treatments’ Category
An Unexpected Proposition
Posted in Treatments on September 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Watsu
Posted in Treatments on August 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am floating.
Not in the sky on a fluffy white cloud. Not in the vast and empty blackness of space.
I am floating in water.
F L O A T I N G
My heavy and uncooperative body made buoyant by a trio of devices attached to my legs and neck.
At first, I am a stiff and brittle [...]
Everything Old is New Again
Posted in Music, Treatments on April 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
When it comes to choosing my music for an acupuncture session, I take the job very seriously. The right choice can be positively inspirational (Steve Miller Band’s Greatest Hits or KFOG’s Live from the Archives) but the wrong CD selection spells absolute disaster (The Cult’s Electric). A good decision enhances a session whereas a bad [...]
A Break in the (Shit)Stormy Weather
Posted in Treatments on February 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I would like to take the opportunity to provide you, dear reader, with an update of sorts from a previous ALS Boy blog entry entitled The Perfect Shitstorm. In that column, I recall airing out the somewhat disheveled state of my ALS treatment network that seemingly and simultaneously collapsed right around the holidays. I [...]
The Perfect Shitstorm
Posted in Fehmeen, Symptoms, Treatments on January 5, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I have always been a guy who appreciates routine. I’m not as OCD as I used to be like the years when I parked my truck in the same space at work every day. Or when I took a picture down the same hallway every school day at the exact same time over a three [...]
To Trial or Not To Trial
Posted in Treatments on December 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I have my final meeting with Claudia this Thursday and I’m feeling kind of bittersweet about it. On one hand, I won’t miss the routine of filling out the same survey every time I visit (too boring), removing my shirt (too sexy) and sleeping my way through not one but two EKG tests, peeing in [...]
When the Abstract Becomes Reality
Posted in Treatments on December 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I have been receiving Medical Qi Gong therapy (pronounced chee-gong) from Christina twice a week for the past two months. Of all the treatments and modalities I’ve been getting to treat my ALS symptoms and causes, I absolutely believe that my work with Christina is providing me the most benefit. Our sessions help me [...]
How I Get High Using Needles
Posted in Treatments on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some people despise Mondays. Other folks merely tolerate Mondays by telling themselves that there are only four more days until the weekend arrives. Me, personally, I live for Mondays because that’s the day I hang out with Jen and get high. Once the needles go in, it’s off to dreamland for me, swimming in a [...]
Who’s Crying Now
Posted in Treatments on October 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I attended my first “real” rock concert back in 1981 when I was twelve years old. I saw Journey at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. At the time of it’s release, Journey’s Escape album helped catapult the band to unprecedented heights in popularity. To this day, I personally credit the music on that record [...]
Clinical Trial and Error
Posted in Treatments on October 5, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Near the top of the never-ending list of infuriating and frustrating things about having ALS is that there isn’t anything you can do about it. There is no cure, no magic elixir you can take to make it go away, or no hope of ever hearing the phrase uttered by your favorite neurologist, ‘Take two [...]
