It’s true.
I’m not a fan of admitting it, but if it weren’t for acupuncture I would never shave.
I was actually getting out of the shower this morning when I realized I had my acu appointment today, and so I got right back in and did a quick shave.
The kind that leads to inevitably hairy knees.
The problem is, I live in Alaska and I’m single. No one ever sees my legs, and I am very rarely motivated to shave for myself.
But knowing I have acupuncture keeps me on a fairly regular schedule.
Before that, I only ever shaved for gyno appointments.
Maybe once a month. Or once every other month.
I am going to be single forever.
I was sitting in the lobby at my acupuncture clinic today, and a woman walked in with a brand new baby. I was mesmerized. I literally eye stalked that poor child as her mom bounced her all around the room. Finally she sat down and went about starting to breastfeed, and I realized she had probably caught on to the fact that I was staring them down. She was probably wondering if she should take this act someplace a little more private. I felt like a creepy old pervert, and decided there was nothing else I could do but explain myself.
“How old is she?” I asked.
“Two weeks” the now understandably wary momma replied.
“I’m doing IVF in July” I stated, as though that explained it all. I don’t know why I thought that one statement would suffice, but it felt like the only appropriate comment to make. As soon as it slipped out though I realized how creepy it was to divulge this information to a stranger while she breastfed her child like that.
Why am I so socially awkward sometimes?
To my surprise though, the look of unease lifted from her face and suddenly she had all kinds of questions. Suddenly she wanted to know all about me and IVF, and was full of all kinds of new mommy advice for me.
And she let me hold her baby.
Her perfect, wonderful, tiny little girl.
Teeny basically had to force me away when it was time for my appointment, and I thanked that momma I had never met for being so kind and sharing her child with a woman who could have been deranged for all she knew!
My acu appointment was a rough one. I’m having an endo flare up (as the Lupron leaves my body) and I’ve been in a decent amount of pain the last few days, but today especially. My lower back hurts bad, and I’ve been uncomfortable doing just about everything. I've even been considering popping one of those lovely Percocet’s I've been avoiding for months. I'm not quite there yet, but it's getting close. As a result, Teeny put me in all kinds of positions to try to ease the tension and get to the spots that might help. I had needles in my pinky toes and all over my bum again. I was bent and prodded, and I’m pretty sure I was doing some kind of naked yoga at one point.
I also called Teeny “Teeny” by accident (obviously that isn’t her real name!) so I’m wondering if she was torturing me just a bit for the nickname I had clearly given her in my head.
But as I was lying on my side with one leg extended off the table while Teeny pushed up and down it trying to move the blood through some vein that is connected to the tendons in my hip and lower back, I thought to myself:
I sure am glad I shaved for this.
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