Same shot, different day

Thank you for all your kind words for yesterday's blip. I haven't ventured far from home today and I thought it would be interesting to document the same spot two days in a row. I promise to venture farther afield tomorrow.

I think I might be slowly starting to feel better. I felt weak and wheezy most of the day but decided I was feeling well enough to take my scheduled client at 6. This client is an old friend and was one of my 'guinea pigs' when I was first qualifying. I almost said when I was first learning but I haven't stopped learning.

Case in point. My friend/client came in with pain a centimetre or so south of her kneecap. Trigger points were likely to be found in the quadriceps higher up the thigh and sure enough there they were, referring pain to just below the knee. However, when I worked on the muscle attachments themselves around the kneecap (bonus point for the anatomical name!), my friend felt the expected discomfort and pain she came in with - bingo! - and I felt nauseous.

I had to stop working for a few minutes. Thankfully we know each other well so I could say why I decided to sit a few feet away and this has happened before with my friend and other clients. Sometimes, thankfully not always, I seem to pick up a bit of the toxins that the massage work is breaking up and releasing. It's not pleasant but is usually a sign that the body has been storing a lot of lactic acid and is now able to release it.

Why should I feel an effect from this? I haven't a scoobie.

To top off matters, after my friend left (feeling much better and no longer limping) I had a sudden burst of energy. I felt like my old self for the first time in weeks!

Bodies, eh? Strange things (and endlessly fascinating). :-)