Saturday, August 11, 2012
Woke up and started cleaning, laundry, and vacuuming in preparation for my massage at Noon. After weeks of dilly-dallying, household chores had piled up. Showered and shampooed and shaved just in time for my appointment.
Massage: “I didn’t know it hurt there.” I not only hear that from my clients, I say it too. Where I thought the origination of the trauma was my deltoid, my massage therapist found inflammation in my subscapularis (think armpit – now you know why I massage that part of your body) and medial tricep/bicep (think from the armpit down the inner arm closest to the body and ribs). Extra massage work on the problematic subscapularis and medial tricep/bicep wasn’t the answer. I could tell by the sensation and asked for the remaining session to be relaxing Swedish. After a relaxing Swedish massage, I felt woozy, dizzy, and lightheaded; not my normal response. Was I just hungry? I hadn’t eaten all day. Even after eating the unusual wooziness continued forcing me to spend the rest of the day relaxing and resting.