OMG! Fish Oil has a SHIT-LOAD of CALORIES!

Okay...I know this is my spinal decompression experience blog, and not a weight loss or even weight control blog - but I had to buy another bottle of fish oil today, and when I was putting it into my calorie counter, had the astonishing revelation that it is friggin' 270 calos for the dose that they have me on. Krikey! I'm on the phone right now with Spinal Relief Centers talking to Jessica and telling her about my "come to Jesus" moment with the calories in the fish oil. It's not like the kid can do anything, but I wanted to tell them.

I also told them after this morning's treatment what a great job they are doing. It's such a refreshing change to be treated halfway decent at a health care giving facility. I had a series of "words" with someone at the Minor & James clinic yesterday, but that's for another blog. This one is about my experience with Spinal Relief Centers. I asked Renee if I could take some photos of the place and some of them doing their jobs for my blog. She is going to ask Dr. Meadows, so I may have some pics to break up the text on this blog soon.

So today, Dr. Meadows set the machine to work the entire time on L3 with about 50 lbs. of pressure (well, it's really negative pressure since it's pulling instead of pushing). And honey, I am SORE! It makes sense to me that you will be sore because your body has been squashed for so long. It can't come back out into it's real shape without some pain. I mean, Keeerist! I lost 1.5 inches of my height over the past 2.5 years. That's a lot of stretching.

So anyway - I did also notice that my pain level has gone down generally about 2 or 3 points. I also noticed that for the past couple of days (doesn't look like it's gonna be that way today) I have had some of the time without pain. Therefore, I am beginning the weaning process off the Oxycodone now. I want to get under 10 milli a day. Once that's done, quitting is about a one-week process.

I'm sitting here at work, and I would feel bad for blogging, but my software isnt' working and I have a call into the help desk. I am using my secondary computer for database maintenance and can't use it for production work. Oh...am I talking about work on my spine blog? Okay...I'll stop.

So there you have it. Treatment No. 6 and all is well. They don't work on Fridays at the Spinal Relief Center, so I won't be having another visit 'til Monday.

Happy weekend!