As most of you know, I have suffered from chronic pain since my surgery. Chemo and radiation intensified the pain. I have been on pain medication continuously for the last 20 months.
My doctors have told me that I would just have to live with this pain, but when I started seeing my new lymphedema specialist, she told me that she thought that much of my pain was due to trauma to my fascia, the connective tissue that covers the bones, muscles, and organs of the entire body. There is a form of therapy called Myofascial Release that stretches the fascia to relieve pain. The founder of this type of therapy is a PT named John Barnes, and he has clinics in AZ and PA. I have made arrangements to go the PA clinic right outside Philadelphia. I will leave March 29th and return April 10th. I will be undergoing a two-week intensive program with multiple therapy sessions - 3 or more hours a day - Monday through Friday. I will be sent home with a home program to maintain the results. People come from all over the world who have pursued many other methods of pain relief, to find that this treatment has been their solution. I am investing alot financially, physically, and emotionally in the hope that this treatment will work for me. I am asking for prayers for travel safety and effective pain relief.
Jan
My son, attend to my words; consent and submit to my sayings. Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart. For they are life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh. Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life. Proverbs 4:20-23
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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