1st trip to the Accupuncturist

I've always wanted to try accupuncture. I had slipped and fell on ice when I was in Chicago back in 2001 and my back has been pretty jacked up ever since.

Lately, it has been causing me a lot of pain and whenever I go to the doctor for my back they give the same line, "oh, well, you know the back is one of those muscles that is very sensitive, blah blah blah....." They never give solutions or healing methods or try to cure you. They always want to treat the symptoms or give some drugs to make the pain go away. I hate taking advil, so drugs aren't my thing. So I decided to go ahead and give accupuncture a try.

I was a little nervous at first, but I read up on my man's credentials and saw that he had been trained in China and Tibet so I figured he knew what he was doing. He also specializes in Chinese Herbology which focuses on 'healing' rather than treatment of the symptoms. I have to admit, I was surprised when this 6'-3" dreadlocked brotha came out to greet me, but went with it anyway.

After talking for a bit, I'm a little unsure whether or not my man is gay or just one of those peaceful artsy types. All the talk about my Chi and how my energy flows had my wondering, but I was in pain and had gone too far to turn back at this point. So he asks me to take off my shirt, pants, and socks and lay down with the towel over me.

So I'm getting undressed and then realize I had put on an old school pair of Calvin Klein underwear. Now you have to understand that I try to buy pretty good underwear because I figure I'll get some good use out of it. But the problem is that I wear those MFers into the ground until it's just the elastic band and a few strings left. This particular pair was no exception. So it wasn't until I took off my pants that I realized................

........ this pair of underwear had a hole in the ass.

Right, smack, dabb in the middle........... so I'm already wondering if dude is gay, and thinking to myself, "If he is, and he sees a hole in the ass of my underwear.............????"

I had to make a split second decision, so I decided to just take them off and play it off like I don't wear underwear. In retrospect, I'm thinking that might have been the absolute WORST decision I could have made as I would've just provided easy access if that was his motive!! Hey, I was under a time constraint here and had to make a decision.

So I put them in the pocket of my pants and just laid down nekkid and hoped for the best.

The treatment went off without incident and my back actually felt better for about two hours, then it felt worse, then by the time I got home and took a hot bath, I felt naucious (sp?). So it did indeed work to release the toxins, and now two days later I actually feel much better. But like any other hustle, they want you to come back for "a couple more treatments"....... I'm sure he does, but I'll be sure to have on underwear with no holes this time.

~C

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