wow.

ok yeah...I've been a bit neglectful to my blog...just a bit. I need more time in the day. What am I gonna do when school starts?? I suppose it's a matter of learning how to manage my time instead of hoping for more hours in a day. Best news since I've been MIA? Massage. Had my first one a week ago. It was the first time I had felt the relief of the knots in my back being pressed, pressed, pressed...then gently disappearing like the bubbles when you first pour a soda...ahhhhh.

As if that weren't awesome enough...the first EVER relief of my iliopsoas pain. The therapists seemed a bit reluctant knowing it was my first ever massage and I wanted her to focus on my psoas area. Let's review just where that pesky little (big) muscle resides, and remember how angry mine is. A mean, a downright jerk.

Here the psoas major is pictured, which is a part of the iliopsoas. 

 

     

It's way back there, and she told me she could not even think about someone touching hers without getting the heebies...but I reassured her that I had a high tolerance for pain and to just go for it. And she did. And afterward, I actually felt relaxed for the first time in years. It felt so nice. I stood, putting weigh on the side of my body, for an hour after the massage and it still didn't tighten up. Went to a movie...sat through the entire 2 1/2 hours without pain....went to a baseball game and sat for 5 hours and walked about half a mile there and back....no pain. I was so happy I could have cried.
I go back to see miss magic hands in a week....I cannot wait!! Relief....finally. Finally.