Accupuncture

I had to go to one of our hospitals for National Nurses week on Tuesday. They had the conference room set up with different stations to discuss the different units in the hospital and the lovely nurses that make the hospital run so smoothly. Nursing truely is a calling in life. One I could personally never do. I don't mind blood and guts so much - it's more the smells and non-blood bodily fluids I could NEVER handle. Anyway, we get there and there are all these stations were like massages and informative info about health and wellness, etc. Then there was the booth with accupuncture.


For those of you that REALLY know me - you know I'm addicted to needles. I seriously love them. I always want to watch when I'm getting shots or blood drawn. Trust me, I know how creepy that is to say out loud. It's why I don't have any tattoos - I would be the girl that has a million of them. So there's an accupuncture booth and at the end of the "event" there was seriously NO ONE there. So they're like come on over and get some accupuncture. YES PLEASE! I had seriously been eyeballing them all day. I filled out my form, gave the totally cute woman doing my symptoms (stiff neck, low back pain) She just started popping needles all over me. I had 1 in my forehead, one in my chest, 5 on each arm/hand. She put the first one in my hand for my neck and was instantly like "okay how does your neck feel?" and I was like - whatever...you only JUST put that in. But I twisted my neck and it was instantly better! AMAZING. I'm a total believer. I'm could TOTALLY see myself getting on an herb/accupuncture regiment. Bonus points that my insurance covers alternative medicine. It's lovely living in hippy Portland for reasons such as this!