Monday, April 30, 2012

Acupuncture at Church!?

All weekend long I had a horrible migraine.  Not even a full fledged one - just the aura and twinges of pain with the stupidity that comes with it.  I couldn't shake it no matter how hard I tried.  I did everything I knew how.  I was still feeling pretty bad Sunday morning but thought I could survive the Church meetings.  By the end of Sacrament I was in agony and knew I couldn't go on.  I told Clyde he would have to take me home as soon I lined someone to cover for me.  As I walked out of the chapel, I reached to hug a sister I visit teach.  She is a psychiatrist but also a licensed acupuncturist.  I told her I had wasn't feeling good.  She said, "Let me see if I have needles with me."  She did and we went into the Mother's Lounge and she propped me up, covered me up with a blanket and stuck a needle in the top of my head, the bridge of my nose, between the thumb and forefinger of each hand and my big toe and the next toe of each foot.  I then sat in the semi-dark room and breathed in through my nose and out through my mouth very slowly for all of Sunday School.  Heidi came and checked on me several times throughout.  By the time she came back and took the needles out, the pain was completely gone, the aura was gone and I have had no more hangover problems since.  I was a little bit tired yesterday but able to function.  It has been interesting how in the last few weeks little miracles have been popping up in my life.  I can claim them to be nothing less.  I am grateful for them.  I am very grateful for Heidi and her help yesterday.  I wasn't looking forward to a couple of more days of dull aching pain - and that is what I was facing.

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